Frontera up Snowdon
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So was it him that bought his own car from Ebay and drove it up again?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wale...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wale...
andyps said:
I heard about it on the radio again today. Surely a good lawyer could get him off the charge of dangerous driving. No one even saw the car getting to the top so how could it have endangered anyone?
Because it went on the tracks. Cars going on tracks are very dangerous. An Intercity Express could hit them at any point. Utterly bonkers on the face of it, however he does appear to have thumbed his fingers at the establishment repeatedly...
Does rather seem excessive when compared with sentences in cases I've personally dealt with:
Manslaughter (Death after one punch): 18 months
Glassing of innocent MoP in pub: 18 months
Jaw broken in unprovoked attack: 14 months
Driving a car up a hill, twice: 22 months
Does rather seem excessive when compared with sentences in cases I've personally dealt with:
Manslaughter (Death after one punch): 18 months
Glassing of innocent MoP in pub: 18 months
Jaw broken in unprovoked attack: 14 months
Driving a car up a hill, twice: 22 months
carreauchompeur said:
Utterly bonkers on the face of it, however he does appear to have thumbed his fingers at the establishment repeatedly...
Does rather seem excessive when compared with sentences in cases I've personally dealt with:
Manslaughter (Death after one punch): 18 months
Glassing of innocent MoP in pub: 18 months
Jaw broken in unprovoked attack: 14 months
Driving a car up a hill, twice: 22 months
My thoughts exactly, clearly trying to make an example of him. Reading the article he does seem to be his own worst enemy though.Does rather seem excessive when compared with sentences in cases I've personally dealt with:
Manslaughter (Death after one punch): 18 months
Glassing of innocent MoP in pub: 18 months
Jaw broken in unprovoked attack: 14 months
Driving a car up a hill, twice: 22 months
Posted in th locked thread but you see these weird sentences away from metropolitan centres. If he'd stolen the car, driven on pavements, through red lights, etc. he'd have been given a slap on the wrist. This is on the same day that a taxi driver received a 35 quid fine for killing a cyclist. I'm not saying that the latter sentence was incorrect, more that I don't see what this actually achieves?
As for sticking fingers up at 'the establishment', if you gave someone a prison sentence for not turning up to court/responding to bail you wouldn't be able to build prisons quick enough.
I daresay that if this wasn't a hill in the public consciousness it wouldn't have even created a murmur.
Crazy.
As for sticking fingers up at 'the establishment', if you gave someone a prison sentence for not turning up to court/responding to bail you wouldn't be able to build prisons quick enough.
I daresay that if this wasn't a hill in the public consciousness it wouldn't have even created a murmur.
Crazy.
Anyone else find it slightly ironic that the judge said "Your involvement has cost many thousands of pounds to the public" and then put him in prison for 22 months. Because that won't cost the public anything? Surely community service would have been more appropriate. Cleaning litter off Snowdon for example.
As said though, he does seem to have been his own worst enemy in many ways.
As said though, he does seem to have been his own worst enemy in many ways.
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