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Did he just go postal or did he first inquire as to the whereabouts of his £600.
I can understand people getting to the end of their tether but if it was a bank problem (they happen) it seems like a massive overreaction, directed at the wrong entity, at least get the facts straight prior to a rampage.
As for people praising him, all a larf init, "sticking it to the man", yeah and his colleagues whose stuff got damaged, hotel staff who wouldnt be able to start their new jobs, anyone booked in the hotel and himself as I wouldnt employ the d
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I can understand people getting to the end of their tether but if it was a bank problem (they happen) it seems like a massive overreaction, directed at the wrong entity, at least get the facts straight prior to a rampage.
As for people praising him, all a larf init, "sticking it to the man", yeah and his colleagues whose stuff got damaged, hotel staff who wouldnt be able to start their new jobs, anyone booked in the hotel and himself as I wouldnt employ the d
head.CoolHands said:
Did he intend to endanger human life? Self evidently not I would say since he could easily have swung it round to clump one of his mates if he intended to. Trumped up charge
There are people in the building while he is doing his Destruction Derby thing, and at one point he uses the digger to try to pull down one of the support columns inside the building.There was also another point where he makes the ceiling collapse whilst two people were standing near the digger, and one of them had to be rapidly dragged out of the way of the falling ceiling by another chap.
I’m guessing those things alone warrant a charge of endangering life.
If he didn’t wish to endanger anyone’s life, he would have told them all to leave the building, waited until it was empty, then started his rampage.
But instead, he cheerfully did it while there were people inside.
Lord Marylebone said:
CoolHands said:
Did he intend to endanger human life? Self evidently not I would say since he could easily have swung it round to clump one of his mates if he intended to. Trumped up charge
There are people in the building while he is doing his Destruction Derby thing, and at one point he uses the digger to try to pull down one of the support columns inside the building.There was also another point where he makes the ceiling collapse whilst two people were standing near the digger, and one of them had to be rapidly dragged out of the way of the falling ceiling by another chap.
I’m guessing those things alone warrant a charge of endangering life.
If he didn’t wish to endanger anyone’s life, he would have told them all to leave the building, waited until it was empty, then started his rampage.
But instead, he cheerfully did it while there were people inside.
Lord Marylebone said:
There are people in the building while he is doing his Destruction Derby thing, and at one point he uses the digger to try to pull down one of the support columns inside the building.
There was also another point where he makes the ceiling collapse whilst two people were standing near the digger, and one of them had to be rapidly dragged out of the way of the falling ceiling by another chap.
Yes, it's that he was reckless:There was also another point where he makes the ceiling collapse whilst two people were standing near the digger, and one of them had to be rapidly dragged out of the way of the falling ceiling by another chap.
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/criminal-dam...
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/48/secti...
"(2) A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property, whether belonging to himself or another—
(a) intending to destroy or damage any property or being reckless as to whether any property would be destroyed or damaged; and
(b) intending by the destruction or damage to endanger the life of another or being reckless as to whether the life of another would be thereby endangered;
shall be guilty of an offence. "
Gareth79 said:
Lord Marylebone said:
There are people in the building while he is doing his Destruction Derby thing, and at one point he uses the digger to try to pull down one of the support columns inside the building.
There was also another point where he makes the ceiling collapse whilst two people were standing near the digger, and one of them had to be rapidly dragged out of the way of the falling ceiling by another chap.
Yes, it's that he was reckless:There was also another point where he makes the ceiling collapse whilst two people were standing near the digger, and one of them had to be rapidly dragged out of the way of the falling ceiling by another chap.
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/criminal-dam...
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/48/secti...
"(2) A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property, whether belonging to himself or another—
(a) intending to destroy or damage any property or being reckless as to whether any property would be destroyed or damaged; and
(b) intending by the destruction or damage to endanger the life of another or being reckless as to whether the life of another would be thereby endangered;
shall be guilty of an offence. "
The charge is appropriate by the looks of things.
Throw the book at him as far as I’m concerned. You simply cannot do things like that, for obvious reasons.
Countdown said:
Earthdweller said:
Seems he was paid !
But an error at his bank meant the money went into his account on Monday rather than Friday
Bit of an epic fail
Only in self pity city !
Not wishing to be argumentative (for a change But an error at his bank meant the money went into his account on Monday rather than Friday
Bit of an epic fail
Only in self pity city !
) but I can’t see how a bank error would delay the payment by ONE day. And when a payment fails it’s nearly always customer error, not the bank. Also nobody goes Tonto for a payment received 1 day late - chances are it was several weeks late, they finally promised it by Friday, missed the cut-off time for BACS/CHAPS and his payment got added to the following day’s payment run, and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Raygun said:
Although it was ott what he did there's too many shyster firms who make low wage earners wait for their money, it seems they get a kick out of being awkward.
Sadly, yes, this is the problem with the industry now, although I wouldn't go as far as to say, its being deliberately awkward, its the fact that the sub-contractor, of the sub-contractor, of the sub-contractor chain that now exists means that the guys at the bottom get shafted.Being an old git, when I started in the industry 40 years ago, on big sites, the main contractor I started with direct employed almost everyone, and I can remember the lads all queuing up for their little brown wage packets at the site office every week.
Different world today, in many ways for the better, but in many ways much worse.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8047035/L...
5 Years 4 months in the clink to think about it.
5 Years 4 months in the clink to think about it.
Can't trust maverick digger drivers.........."Ohhhhhhhhhhh, I gets me a shiney blue helmet Mammmmm" on a nuclear power station site...................
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIFYAHjBPvs
Supposedly the disciplinary was in stitches at the video and the site guys didn't want to sack him....but the French EdF guys were not amused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIFYAHjBPvs
Supposedly the disciplinary was in stitches at the video and the site guys didn't want to sack him....but the French EdF guys were not amused.
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