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"Am I going down?"

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???

If justice is served you'll work off your £100,000 debt, tied to neal all the while. Either that or you'll be forced to attend fire safety classes for the rest of your life, always failing the final exam by one mark.

Or they'll see it was all a mistake and fine your ass.

Tphi wrote:
> Jerzy Duck wrote:
> Hope you escape justice dude, what day are you in?

I'm not trying to escape justice, but get it.

I go in for pre-evidence thing on Wednesday.

Tphi wrote:
> Jerzy Duck wrote:
> Hope you escape justice dude, what day are you in?

There's something wrong here :P

HE'S GOING DOWN!

Plead insanity. But first, hit yourself on the head with a brick.

Jerzy Duck wrote:
> Hope you escape justice dude, what day are you in?

Jerzy Duck wrote:
> Hmm, you told everyone at the time that it was a spark from the I-pod
> rather than an open fire? Insurance, fire brigade, police?

Not everyone, just whenever I had to say it in print or what have you.

> I'd have thought your biggest problem would have been charges / civil
> actions arising from that, if you only have to defend the arson charge
> you're laughing.

You can only charge people money that they have. They cannot charge me £50 grand cause where the hell am I gonna get that?

I'm a student, I have a very small part time job! That's it.

Jerzy Duck wrote:
> We could send out spammy chain-e-mails with titles about cute puppies
> to get people to open them.
> And Tphi could cook hot dogs for everyone. But not on a barbeque,
> that'd just be insensitive.

[URL]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/tphi/hotdog.jpg[/URL] Pour vous.

lcarus wrote:
> But what kind of an example would it set to the kids?
>
> "Our teach is cool, he burns down buildings!!!"


I think it'd be a good thing.

Maybe they'd pay attention and learn stuff if they were terrified that the teacher would burn them alive.

In fact, I'd say that a conviction for arson should be a pre-requisite for newly recruited teachers.


Or at least a trial for suspected heroine abuse.


*Writes to MP*

Jerzy Duck wrote:

> Seriously, the justice system is a joke. Even if they convict,
> which I doubt they will, you'll probably not have to do actual time.
> I think it'd stay on your record for a few years, maybe 5, before
> being lost in the sands of time, not sure whether it'd keep you from
> teaching until then, though I can't see how you'd want to waste your
> life trying to keep a bunch of kids from ripping each others / your
> limbs off, you could do so much more!

But what kind of an example would it set to the kids?

"Our teach is cool, he burns down buildings!!!"


IB IS GUILTY