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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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But if i remember correctly the equipment was all faulty so was propbably going to be scrapped anyway, and it was all insured and im all for sticking it to the insurance man!!
nova prospekt wrote:
> No one was hurt in the fire tho, so it is a different situation
> completely.
So?
If somebody stole £100k from you, you'd want compensation, right?
> No one was hurt in the fire tho, so it is a different situation
> completely.
So?
If somebody stole £100k from you, you'd want compensation, right?
No one was hurt in the fire tho, so it is a different situation completely.
Going 42mph and still managing to punch a kid out of a window? You deserve a medal.
Oh, I see...
Oh, I see...
Yes, but if somebody is driving at 42mph and hits a kid they're going to be punished.
Dringo wrote:
> stuff
See, I see you've been practising your defence. Just say that in court and you'll be fine. When is the actual date?
Oh, and your tag is a self-pee-take, right?
> stuff
See, I see you've been practising your defence. Just say that in court and you'll be fine. When is the actual date?
Oh, and your tag is a self-pee-take, right?
I didn't burn the barn down, I am not an arsonist. Neither is Neal, he is a liar after his own saftey, but it was an accident. We didn't mean to burn the barn down, if we thought it was a possibility we would not have done it.
More to the point I wasn't even the one directly responsible for the fire (although to claim I had no involvement would be a lie). Reckless, to me, signifies someone who is a not only an idiot but an out of control idiot.
Lets take a road accident. Someone going 100MPH in a 40, kills someone, high as a kite and drunk. That guy is reckless. Someone going 42 in a 40, those extra 2 MPH makes the whole difference. He made a mistake, went a little too fast, just a tiny bit, traffic cop wouldn't stop him. He made a mistake, an error... yes technically to blame, but a reckless driver?
Perhaps there are better examples.
But it shouldn't matter. Neal is a chicken, scared of being the one mainly responsible for the incident, wants to share or partially shift the blame. But if he only confessed we could both work on the fact it was a terrible accident.
Of course health and saftey will have a field day. There I was, looking for ANYTHING to put the fire out. Extinguisher, sand, blanket... anything.
I found nothing. We called the fire brigade. We tried to extinguish the fire. We had no intention to cause any damage. My mistake was lending neal my lighter. Neal's mistake was moving the metal cannister. But I lent him the lighter in belief he was going to be safe with it. He moved the metal cannister in order to keep an eye on it.
Mistakes ultimatly yes. But Reckless ones? I disagree.
More to the point I wasn't even the one directly responsible for the fire (although to claim I had no involvement would be a lie). Reckless, to me, signifies someone who is a not only an idiot but an out of control idiot.
Lets take a road accident. Someone going 100MPH in a 40, kills someone, high as a kite and drunk. That guy is reckless. Someone going 42 in a 40, those extra 2 MPH makes the whole difference. He made a mistake, went a little too fast, just a tiny bit, traffic cop wouldn't stop him. He made a mistake, an error... yes technically to blame, but a reckless driver?
Perhaps there are better examples.
But it shouldn't matter. Neal is a chicken, scared of being the one mainly responsible for the incident, wants to share or partially shift the blame. But if he only confessed we could both work on the fact it was a terrible accident.
Of course health and saftey will have a field day. There I was, looking for ANYTHING to put the fire out. Extinguisher, sand, blanket... anything.
I found nothing. We called the fire brigade. We tried to extinguish the fire. We had no intention to cause any damage. My mistake was lending neal my lighter. Neal's mistake was moving the metal cannister. But I lent him the lighter in belief he was going to be safe with it. He moved the metal cannister in order to keep an eye on it.
Mistakes ultimatly yes. But Reckless ones? I disagree.
Memorandum! wrote:
> "only if you're an idiot who puts spaces between his tags and
> the URL."
I encountered the same problem earlier on a different forum...I've hardly used them before here, and if the instructions show us to put spaces in between then that's what we're gonna do...
> "only if you're an idiot who puts spaces between his tags and
> the URL."
I encountered the same problem earlier on a different forum...I've hardly used them before here, and if the instructions show us to put spaces in between then that's what we're gonna do...
[URL]http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=mp3&cs=utf8&q=South+Here+On+In&rys=0&itag=crv[/URL]
you guys, sometimes I wonder how you manage to feed yourselves on a daily basis
you guys, sometimes I wonder how you manage to feed yourselves on a daily basis
[URL]http://www.alltheweb.com/searchcat=mp3&cs=utf8&q=South+Here+On+In&rys=0&itag=crv[/URL]
Aww, I messed it up.
Aww, I messed it up.
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