Now if my blog was made for anything, it’s for reporting small awesome instances like this one. My weekly Five Other Things post traditionally puts a little bit of funny news at the end ala News at Ten. But this one was too awesome to simply leave at a one-liner:

Rick Latham – an everyday normal person – was out on his kayak (urm… okay…) sledging down Boars Hill in Oxford when he saw a Police riot van pull up. Obviously realising that he wasn’t exactly using the kayak as he should be, he started getting a little antsy. It wasn’t until they got out and joined him until he could breathe a sigh of relief. That, and not feel like a total nonce.

Officers from Thames Valley Police got out of their van, shields in arm, and headed towards him, only to sit on it and slide down the same hill like the giddy little Police officers we come to know and love.

Latham asked the Police officers if he was alright to film him, to which they replied with an a-ok. Little did they know they’d end up getting punished like little school children by their superintendant Andrew Murray – who I don’t think plays tennis for a living.

Murray said "The snow has a habit of bringing out the child in all of us. I have spoken to the officers concerned and reminded them in no uncertain terms that tobogganing on duty, on police equipment and at taxpayers’ expense, is a very bad idea should they wish to progress under my command.". Wow. Way to go, killjoy.

The infamous words “Whatever happens, keep smiling” couldn’t have been used in any better context. Virtually everyone who’s seen the clip are all for the Police having a bit of a laugh. Okay, there’ll be some Daily Mail readers who will think it’s an abomination that they were doing this while on duty, but then again, they had no childhood.

This whole thing can be summed up by one YouTube comment left by a guy going by the name of SteakAndKidneyJesus (which, if I do say so myself, is an inspired username) who said this:

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