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Comment on RIP Granny Annie 1921 – 2010 by weenie

weenie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:02:38 +0000

Sorry to hear about your loss

Comment on RIP Granny Annie 1921 – 2010 by Giuliana

Giuliana — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:21:32 +0000

That’s really sweet. Hugs.

Comment on RIP Granny Annie 1921 – 2010 by Mosh

Mosh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:47:23 +0000

Thank you both. Things are fine here. Mum is coping well, as is her sister. The funeral’s on Wednesday and it’ll be a small affair. After all – she’d have hated a fuss

Comment on RIP Granny Annie 1921 – 2010 by jac

jac — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:12:31 +0000

That is a lovely tribute. Sympathy to you and your family.

Comment on RIP Granny Annie 1921 – 2010 by Beth

Beth — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:35:19 +0000

Oh Iain I’m so sorry.

I’m thinking of you and your family.

Comment on Lovely Bones, Crazies and Crazy Heart by Susan Hated Literature | The lovely bones

Susan Hated Literature | The lovely bones — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:47:53 +0000

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Comment on Crime and lack of punishment by Mosh

Mosh — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:43:33 +0000

I’m all for snipping the fingers off people found to be writing computer viruses so I think I’m a little bit too harsh to be deciding laws. However, I don think our current ones need looked at. Soon.

Comment on Crime and lack of punishment by weenie

weenie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:56:31 +0000

Community service and suspended sentences are not a deterrent though, so you’ll always get scrotes more willing to risk getting caught since the ‘punishment’ isn’t really punishment is it, just a bit of a nuisance.

There is something terribly wrong with our legal system.

Bring back birching!

Comment on Crime and lack of punishment by Mosh

Mosh — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:31:45 +0000

My view with the second guy is that he doesn’t seem to have done anything actually *criminal*. As far as the story reports – and I admit we can only go by the facts we have – all the acts were consensual. The worst I can think of is some kind of privacy invasion. Had he, as I mentioned, tried to sell the videos or somesuch then I can see why the police would be involved.

Regardless, the two cases do highlight that our legal system is severely messed up. Prison is supposed to be a means of taking people off the streets until they’re rehabilitated. People who are a danger to others.

Now, Mr Producer is hardly a “danger”. A bit of a perv perhaps, but he’s not the type to kill someone. Plus now that his name’s out in public he’s going to have a hard time pulling the same trick again.

Our little yob, on the other hand, *is* a danger. Likely has been for years. And almost certainly will continue to be so. I don’t see how anyone can argue that the correct one ended up in a jail cell.

Comment on Crime and lack of punishment by Beth

Beth — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:08:53 +0000

The only comment I will make (OK… I just finished typing – that was a lie) is that offender 1 *will* do the Unpaid Work, or he will be recalled to prison and the sentence unsuspended. and he *will* stick to the curfew, else he’ll be in prison. Speaking as someone who works for probation.

I hope he does try and get out of the unpaid work or try and break the curfew tbh, as then he will serve the sentence (and apparently the early release thing is ending soon, so he’ll actually serve it). yeah, the driving ban is entirely pointless, but if they didn’t ban him there would be outcry about how he wasn’t banned.

… do you think that if someone slept through a rape that didn’t leave them injured that they shouldn’t press charges?

i do agree that the sentences seem backwards (especially considering the ‘joy’rider’s response to his sentence – makes me feel sick) but all we see is how the newspapers want to spin it on any given day. We don’t know what they left out.

i guess i’m mostly playing devil’s advocate, because i’m glad i don’t have to make this kind of decision.