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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???

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> But then I don't know anything.

Nice way to end a sentence - makes everything you just said void.

How does an Arson charge work, then?
I thought it was if you did it on purpose ... not an accident.

I would have thought the worst thing that could happen was whoever's stuff it was would want compensation for the loss of it all.

But then I don't know anything.

Hedfix wrote:
> "Am I going down?"
>
> "Only after they've smashed out your teeth."

With no teeth he'll be able to fit more than two in there!

Rumpadodosnitzle wrote:
> [URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/display_messages.php?threadid=118227&forumid=423¤tsort=asc[/URL]
>
> Why did you edit that? I hope it wasn’t to change the story...SR keep
> backups don't you know!
>
> Anyway...My point is, for the love of all things holy, don't let them
> see that. For now anyway. It shows a slightly different story - If SR
> have the unedited version, the police can even get that one via the
> Data Protection act, so then its even worse (I’m hoping you just
> fixed a typo somewhere :S)

You didn't look at the date it was edited, did you?

Rumpadodosnitzle wrote:
>
> "The fire was started with my lighter. Which I gave him. And I
> never stopped it. But it’s not my fault. I wanted to be warm. Because
> I was keeping him company even though I don’t work there. I was just
> around £100k worth of electronic devices. Which have now burnt
> down.

To me that bit just places all the blame squarely on your friend really, it shows his lack of respect for his job and his carelessness in that he'd bring a friend along with him to work.

Negligence really.

Remember amigo, you've got us to back you up.

*silence*

Well, good luck. When's the actual date?

"Am I going down?"

"Only after they've smashed out your teeth."

"Big Donkey Kong wants to beat on your bongos now..."

A Gamecube fan? Wouldn't admit that in prison...

monkey_man wrote:
> A responsible adult (because that is what you are, despite the
> incident) would have called a fire engine,

Nah, Dringo's such a Ninty fan I'm surprised he did have a make-shift Mario water sprayer thingy. :D