Banned driver jailed for speed camera arson bid
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ananova said:
Banned driver jailed for speed camera arson bid
A disqualified driver who attempted to set fire to a roadside speed camera after getting the idea from a television programme has been jailed for 12 months.
Unemployed Karl Joyce, 20, of Norwich, drew a diagram of a speed camera after watching the programme, then decided to take the law into his own hands because he was angry that some of his friends had been caught speeding.
A Norfolk road safety group said the prosecution at Norwich Crown Court was thought to be the first of its kind in the UK and the sentence would act as a deterrent to anyone contemplating attacking speed cameras.
"Speed cameras are sited by responsible bodies in the interests of public safety," the judge told Joyce.
"The purpose being to reduce death and serious injuries and the misery which is caused.
"All of us have a duty to observe them or if we choose not to take the consequence in terms of fines and endorsements.
"Cameras are a perfectly legitimate means of enforcing these speed limits and if there is a concern about the fairness of a particular camera then the proper method is not to break it or to destroy the camera but simply to make representations to the appropriate authorities.
"The law cannot be taken into one's own hands."
He added: "Such actions will be visited by deterrent sentences in the interests of maintaining the rule of law and in the interests of public safety."
drivers over. senile old git said:
"Speed cameras are sited by responsible bodies in the interests of public safety," the judge told Joyce.
1) Bollocks
2) What's the normal punishment for being caught prepared for arson without commiting arson?
Edited cos I can't spell
>> Edited by puggit on Friday 28th November 15:20
toad_oftoadhall said:
You ban someone and make them lose their ability to earn a livlihood and feed their family.
You then create someone with nothing to lose.
Why do the courts find this suprising?
You know Toady I've read that article about 15 times and while you see "Spotless avenger exacts revenge for life ruination" as the headline, I see "Pyromaniac scroat moves on from burning cars..."
Literature is all about interpretation I guess
madant69 said:
You ban someone and make them lose their ability to earn a livlihood and feed their family.
You then create someone with nothing to lose.
Why do the courts find this suprising?
You know Toady I've read that article about 15 times and while you see "Spotless avenger exacts revenge for life ruination" as the headline, I see "Pyromaniac scroat moves on from burning cars..."
Literature is all about interpretation I guess
As soon as I read 'unemployed...from Norwich', I groaned inwardly. Why couldn't it have been a vicar or a charity worker? By associating such acts with obvious scrotes (it's not as if us 'normals' don't want to do the same), the vermin that pass for the UK media get to play both sides - appear to be supporting the anti-scamera movement yet implying that only scrotes would do such a thing. Contemptible - every scamera should be replaced with the severed head of a journalist.
UK952 said:Couldn't he just claim to be a member of the IRA and get the same treatment? If not, then perhaps he should claim responsibility for bringing down an airliner over Scotland and get palatial accommodation at the tax-payer's expense?
If it is proved that cameras cause more accidents than they save - will he be released and given compensation?
Tony
Not only is the law an ass, many of those who administer it as asses too (in the American sense of the word 'ass'
). Streaky
What a pile of tw@tty bollocks.
A politicised decision, I'm sure.
I wonder what sentence will be meted out to the the local scrotes who only last week burnt a McD's to the ground (apart from a slap up voucher from the Michelin Guide, before any cynics chirp in!)?
Bugger all, of course because they'd have to catch 'em first and well, it's a bit too much like detective work, n'est-ce pas?
If they did, a fortnight in Bora Bora, no doubt, admiring the ornate statuette of the multifarious local pottery works and all the different lengths of Gekkos' tails.
Old Rumpole should have said, "Scameras are a perfectly illegitimate form of non-mandated indirect taxation and you must accept such state sponsored instances of violent, financial and livelihood- threatening buggery."
Good people, charge your glasses to this chap - and let us hope it hastens the withdrawal of these repressive instruments of facism.
>> Edited by derestrictor on Saturday 29th November 08:40
A politicised decision, I'm sure.
I wonder what sentence will be meted out to the the local scrotes who only last week burnt a McD's to the ground (apart from a slap up voucher from the Michelin Guide, before any cynics chirp in!)?
Bugger all, of course because they'd have to catch 'em first and well, it's a bit too much like detective work, n'est-ce pas?
If they did, a fortnight in Bora Bora, no doubt, admiring the ornate statuette of the multifarious local pottery works and all the different lengths of Gekkos' tails.
Old Rumpole should have said, "Scameras are a perfectly illegitimate form of non-mandated indirect taxation and you must accept such state sponsored instances of violent, financial and livelihood- threatening buggery."
Good people, charge your glasses to this chap - and let us hope it hastens the withdrawal of these repressive instruments of facism.
>> Edited by derestrictor on Saturday 29th November 08:40
streaky said:
Press reports are 'literature'? Browing, Dodsworth, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Wilde, etc. must be exhibiting high rotational velocities in their subterranean post-life accommodation - Streaky
Whirling in Hell?
Literature is the art of a writer. Consequently even your prosaic witterings could be considered as "literature".
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