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Some may remember a tale I told about a barn.
This barn, after a bit of idiocy from my close friend neal. Got burnt to the ground. In brief, my friend was working in a barn. Stacking a selection of broken chip and pin machines. It was a cold day in January and so he decided to start a fire to keep warm. Using my lighter my friend recklessly started a fire on a stack of boxes and then later, upon request, in a bin, away from danger. As the situation wore on my friend moved the bin nearer to him, which I questioned, the fire flicked from the metal bin and hit a stack of boxes. To cut a long story short, the barn burnt to the ground.
1 month later he is arrested, he tells his arresting officer that it was I that started the fire. So I was arrested. I told the truth, as stated above. 4 months down the line we are both charged with Arson.
I appear in court next week.
I am, as some will known, a Cambridge university student, with a small desire to be a teacher. This offense could see my dreams dashed and my prospects ruined. I have no idea what the minimum sentence is (be it imprisonment or community service), nor do I know EXACTLY what I did wrong.
At the moment my "close friend" still insists it was I that was responsible for the fire.
Help???
This barn, after a bit of idiocy from my close friend neal. Got burnt to the ground. In brief, my friend was working in a barn. Stacking a selection of broken chip and pin machines. It was a cold day in January and so he decided to start a fire to keep warm. Using my lighter my friend recklessly started a fire on a stack of boxes and then later, upon request, in a bin, away from danger. As the situation wore on my friend moved the bin nearer to him, which I questioned, the fire flicked from the metal bin and hit a stack of boxes. To cut a long story short, the barn burnt to the ground.
1 month later he is arrested, he tells his arresting officer that it was I that started the fire. So I was arrested. I told the truth, as stated above. 4 months down the line we are both charged with Arson.
I appear in court next week.
I am, as some will known, a Cambridge university student, with a small desire to be a teacher. This offense could see my dreams dashed and my prospects ruined. I have no idea what the minimum sentence is (be it imprisonment or community service), nor do I know EXACTLY what I did wrong.
At the moment my "close friend" still insists it was I that was responsible for the fire.
Help???
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I actually want him to get sent to prison.
Do they let people on the internet in prison these days?
We could all read his livejournal
Do they let people on the internet in prison these days?
We could all read his livejournal
I would send him to maximum security and film the whole 25 year sentence, then broadcast it as a programme with Yngwie Malmsteen's "Anguish and Fear" playing constantly in the background, occasionally interspliced with the screams of a toothless Dringo.
I'd send him to a Thai Prison and then get some lunch.
And laugh and laugh and laugh
And laugh and laugh and laugh
ok so if you were on the jury, with the evidence we've heard, would you send Dring down or give him community service or what?
Goatboy wrote:
> Nobody here, with the exception of Tiltawhirl, has any experience of
> being done in court for anything much so we don't know what the hell
> you'll get.
That's not strictly true. My mum and dad didn't pay their poll tax until several days late.
We had a letter and everything.
> Nobody here, with the exception of Tiltawhirl, has any experience of
> being done in court for anything much so we don't know what the hell
> you'll get.
That's not strictly true. My mum and dad didn't pay their poll tax until several days late.
We had a letter and everything.
Oh for chrissakes grow up Dringo.
You're not going to prison nor are you going to kill yourself.
Stop clamouring for attention, as per the original post.
You did a stupid thing, whether you ummed and aahhd about it is neither here nor there. You were there, your mate was there. You both burned it down, one lit it and the other didn't put it out immediately.
The ifs and buts are by the by.
You + Mate + Fire = £100k damage.
It wasn't malicious, it wasn't intentional. It was dumb and spread.
It's, unfortunately, not illegal to be stupid.
Nobody here, with the exception of Tiltawhirl, has any experience of being done in court for anything much so we don't know what the hell you'll get.
Might be a fine, might be a caution, might be nothing, might be a million years in Shawshank!!!!!!!!!!!!
You learned two important lessons here:
1 - Don't light fires anywhere you're not supposed to
2 - Don't post every detail of your life on the internet because nobody really cares.
Sure, you might go to prison and be used like a woman. Or you may get a fine and spend the next eleventy years paying off x-amount per month.
But apart from you and your family, this is nothing more than entertainment for us
*shrugs*
You're not going to prison nor are you going to kill yourself.
Stop clamouring for attention, as per the original post.
You did a stupid thing, whether you ummed and aahhd about it is neither here nor there. You were there, your mate was there. You both burned it down, one lit it and the other didn't put it out immediately.
The ifs and buts are by the by.
You + Mate + Fire = £100k damage.
It wasn't malicious, it wasn't intentional. It was dumb and spread.
It's, unfortunately, not illegal to be stupid.
Nobody here, with the exception of Tiltawhirl, has any experience of being done in court for anything much so we don't know what the hell you'll get.
Might be a fine, might be a caution, might be nothing, might be a million years in Shawshank!!!!!!!!!!!!
You learned two important lessons here:
1 - Don't light fires anywhere you're not supposed to
2 - Don't post every detail of your life on the internet because nobody really cares.
Sure, you might go to prison and be used like a woman. Or you may get a fine and spend the next eleventy years paying off x-amount per month.
But apart from you and your family, this is nothing more than entertainment for us
*shrugs*
But the point is you let him move it, and you even said you thought the fire was a good idea at the time.
Dringo wrote:
> When we agreed on starting a fire I assumed it would be away from the
> boxes towards the front of the barn. Which it eventually was. Before
> neal moved it.
To "ASSUME" is to make an ASS out of U and ME.
See what I did there? Clever, eh?
> When we agreed on starting a fire I assumed it would be away from the
> boxes towards the front of the barn. Which it eventually was. Before
> neal moved it.
To "ASSUME" is to make an ASS out of U and ME.
See what I did there? Clever, eh?
dont commit suicide. It's not like this is going to end your life, just change how you'd planned it.
You haven't seen neal have you :).
It sounded to me like he knew what he was doing.
Whenever he did something that could be deemed "reckless" such as putting the box on more boxes and moving the bin I intervened and said "hang on mate".
We were cold, the fire was in a bin far away from any danger. That's how I liked it. When he moved the fire I was concerned and I think he was such an idiot for moving the damn thing. I was cross. But despite that now it looks like I will endure a prison sentence for it. And I didn't mean for anything to happen. For christs sake it wasn't even my idea, my actions... it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I haven't slept for days. Maybe Suicide isn't such a bad idea.
It sounded to me like he knew what he was doing.
Whenever he did something that could be deemed "reckless" such as putting the box on more boxes and moving the bin I intervened and said "hang on mate".
We were cold, the fire was in a bin far away from any danger. That's how I liked it. When he moved the fire I was concerned and I think he was such an idiot for moving the damn thing. I was cross. But despite that now it looks like I will endure a prison sentence for it. And I didn't mean for anything to happen. For christs sake it wasn't even my idea, my actions... it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I haven't slept for days. Maybe Suicide isn't such a bad idea.
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