• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

News and entertainment worth sharing – York and North Yorkshire

  • News
  • Radio
  • Vouchers
  • WIN
  • More
    • Tickets
    • Lifestyle
    • Advertise
    • About
    • Contact

York man flags down police – because his portion of chips was too small

Sat 30 Mar

Photograph: 4028mdk09 on Wikipedia

Sat 30 Mar 2019  @ 4:43pm
YorkMix
News

When the man approached police in York in a state of agitation, they must have wondered what was wrong.

And it turned out to he had suffered “a heinous crime”, in the words of officers.

The York City Police team on Facebook revealed what happened to a patrol on Friday (29 March):

  • Today a male flagged down one of the team with a report of a heinous crime.

    The male had purchased a portion of chips from a take away.

    He left the shop to eat the chips but after 10 minutes of eating them decided he had been given too small a portion.

    He returned to the shop to complain and surprisingly they could not assist him.

    He then flagged down a police officer to sort the issue.

Pun-tastic response

The officers said they were “not sure what crime he thought had been committed but it was all a little fishy.

“Needless to say he was sensitively informed this was not a police issue.”

The report led to a number of similarly dodgy puns…

Jez Russell
When the chips are down, you know you can call on the police to sort it out.


Faye Endersby
Sounds like the guys got a right chip on his shoulder.


Bernie Pettersen
The copper said it wasn’t his plaice to get involved!


Lisa Russell
Well he could of been chipped away at all day, so really the officer shouldn’t of gave him a battering as well… officer should of politely said “tartare” for now


 


Trending »


Primary Sidebar

Footer

Contact us

General
01904 375 029

Studio/competitions
01904 375 030

Email YorkMix »

5-6 King's Court
Shambles
York  YO1 7LD

Listen to us

You can listen to YorkMix Radio using your DAB+ radio, Alexa or Google smart speaker, or online using the links below.

Click here to listen to YorkMix Radio »

Download the app from Google Play store
Download the app from Apple App store
About us

YorkMix is a trading name of
York Sound Ltd

Registered in England
Company no: 12831940
VAT no: GB289462452

YorkMix Radio public file

  • About
  • Public file
  • Privacy policy
  • Corrections & complaints
  • Contact

Copyright © 2025 YorkMix