Cops’ sloth shocks lots

Quel est touts this then?

Here’s a worrying tale, perhaps even cautionary, involving the local police.

A friend of mine, the English brother of a hotelier in Monetier, who comes a couple of times a season, usually skis but this week he’s been giving snowboarding a go, and as you may imagine is still a wee bit unstable. He had a fall just under the Bachas lift where the red pistes Aya and Corovina split and lost his sunglasses a wee bit up the slope.

He took his board off and jammed it into the snow to walk back up to retrieve his glasses, which he said took no more than two minutes. In this time his board disappeared.

So either his board was nicked or if we’re being exceptionally generous someone knocked it or it fell over and slid down the hill on its own.

So far, so sad, it does happen, mind you you have to be impressed with the speed of a theif to see it, make the decission and leg it in less than two minutes.

So there you go always keep an eye on your stuf, the only thing I have had purloined (touch wood) is a pair of poles – from the usual place outside a reastaurant.

Where the story gets odd is when he went to report the theft in the Gendarmerie in St Chaffrey. At first the cops were “no, you can’t report it because you lost it.” But after some insistence they finally filled in a form for him to make his insurance claim.

One can’t help wonder if there is such a lack of interest stems form a political desire to keep crime figures down or laziness?

In the six/ seven years I’ve been coming here this is the first time of heard of a theft either on or off the piste, so I’d have to say laziness.

On a further crime edition it’s usually the last two weeks of the season that things go missing as this is when the casual staff tend to be leaving and occasionally, accidentally pick up the wrong skis or boots.

Evenin’ all.

Oh yes, it’s sunny with clear skies and the snow is a bit hard until it warms up a bit.