Uppermill Post Office was burgled on Tuesday night with the perpetrators making off with four 5 litre tubs of vanilla ice cream and a handful of Cornettos.
Police were quickly on the scene and with the help of the Lancashire Police helicopter, that was over the village for half an hour, the thieves were caught after a short manhunt. GMP officers requested the help of the Lancashire chopper after their own was unavailable due to operational reasons.
Saddleworth News has been told the burglars were three local lads, one has been cautioned and the other two reprimanded.
got to hear the scum have been caught
99 Problems and a police helicopter was one.
The criminal genius’ went on meltdown as hundreds and thousands of police men coned the vicinity off, 99 officers were said to have suffered brain freeze.
The last time I checked, the Post Office in Uppermill didn’t sell ice cream.
There’s not a lot of room in there for a freezer!
The newsagents next door does though
…which I believe happens to be also owned by the postmaster.
Perhaps just a teensy bit excessive to call out the helicopter for an ice cream theft, but good to hear they were caught.
As long as other thefts in Uppermill are treated equally with the same police response then hopefully these criminals will get their just deserts (pun intended)
Not just one Cornetto?
Why the helicopter. Once it has been established that only Ice cream had been stolen does it not seem a little over the top that a police helicopter was sent up when it costs how much an hour!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought the police were making cut back.
They should have kept the helicopter on the ground, and moved in for the arrest when the perpetrators succumbed to brain-freeze thus leaving them stunned and immobilised.
You can tell the thieves were amateurs from the way in which they only took vanilla, a professional ice cream theft gang would have selected a range of flavours, including mint choc chip, chocolate, and strawberry ripple.
The street value of vanilla flavour makes it uneconomical to steal, but if you mix it with other flavours its black market value goes through the roof.
I believe that the Lancashire Air Support Unit is now sponsored by Ben & Jerry’s.
…I also note with interest that it wasn’t the West Yorkshire police helicopter that was summoned…
Ah, good old border disputes. Who cares about the waste of resources when we can go for the flat earth argument? Helicopters are clearly exempt from criticism, because Da Vinci invented them *ages* ago.
good to see the helicopter out for ice cream in Saddleworth…do you think the toffs will mind if it comes down in to Oldham and see if it can stop all the rapes and stabbings here….disgusted….
need to dry my hair could you send that helicoptor over head please
Quite funny realy running around saddleworth with over £200 of ice cream for more then half an hour before even smelling police, quenching our needs with….. Over 50 cornetto cookie dough inigmas, the 20 litres of ice cream ranged from, fudge, strawberry, chocolate and caremel vanilla. Later we found out that the total cost of the police chase costed £7000 witch just proves how pathetic PC pickles and his crew are. Spending not much time in the station, so to all you daft news belivers out there thats what happend, im sucking on a inigma this second giggling to myself think how jellous you all are
For those whom have been misslead by these funny comments above!. Police took a steady half an hour to get to the scene, roodly interrupting an icecream buffet
some stupid person quoted only vanilla ice cream was took!!?! Were not stupid because we had fudge, vanilla, stawberry and chocolate!! Not to sell only to solve dry mouth..
Try stealing some books next time. Not to sell, only to solve empty head.
Gooden.
Oldham Police, they are an ENIGMA…
It’s comical that a helicopter was deployed, maybe they just fancied a ride out. I think some of these comentors need to lay off these so called scum though, I’m sure you have all stolen something before and at the end of the day its Ice Cream. Why do they need to go steal some books? For all you know they could be far more intelligent than you, dont make assumtions of people you dont know!
glad to hear that that Sgt Wafer collar number 99 got a result arresting a number of tubs from the Nicker Bocker Glory gang after their dairying attempt to get away with the lolly!