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Pull the other one, it's got tomatoes on
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:09 pm
by Gob
A man caught with a prostitute in his car told police she was there to show him where to buy tomatoes.
West Midlands Police said officers found the woman sitting inside Muhammad Ikhlaq's car while he withdrew £20 from a cash machine, which he said was to pay for tomatoes.
Ikhlaq, 39, of New Street, Dudley, was found guilty of soliciting and fined £400 at Walsall Magistrates' Court.
He was also ordered to pay £665 in costs on Wednesday.
Ikhlaq was spotted by officers who saw the known sex worker in his Nissan Micra car in Wednesbury Road, Walsall, on 9 May.
PC Stacey Paterson, from Walsall police, said: "I've heard some excuses before but in the 10 years that I have been a police officer I have never heard a kerb crawler covering up his crimes by claiming to be buying tomatoes.
"Our officers and the courts saw through his lies and [Ikhlaq] has now been found guilty."
Re: Pull the other one, it's got tomatoes on
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:29 pm
by Scooter
Did the police witness the solicitation happening? Do any of them read lips to have heard the conversation the two of them were having in the car? Then where is the evidence that any such solicitation occurred?
Re: Pull the other one, it's got tomatoes on
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:40 pm
by TPFKA@W
Scooter wrote:Did the police witness the solicitation happening? Do any of them read lips to have heard the conversation the two of them were having in the car? Then where is the evidence that any such solicitation occurred?
What a whorable argument.
Re: Pull the other one, it's got tomatoes on
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:56 pm
by Gob
Maybe the prossie said; "He offered me 20 quid for a blow job", or similar?
Re: Pull the other one, it's got tomatoes on
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 12:35 am
by dales
20 quid huh?
I'm a little short today.
Re: Pull the other one, it's got tomatoes on
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 12:58 am
by Lord Jim
Maybe the fellow was an aficionado of 1930's and 40's pulp detective novels:
"I tell ya that lady was one hot tomato; a real dish"...
Re: Pull the other one, it's got tomatoes on
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:19 pm
by Long Run
They were going to make catsup together, beautiful catsup.