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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???

He'll wash up on a beach in a day or two.

Yes, court's take an age. I was sentenced at 2:45.

I have been forced to do 200 hours community service and pay a fine of £2000.

Mr. Clarke (that's neal) has to do 200 hours community service and pay a fine of £2500.

That ends that. As soon as the news reaches the net i'll post a link but then this whole sorry affair can come to an end.

At last.

So why did Neal have to pay more?

Tomm wrote:
> So why did Neal have to pay more?

Because it was mainly his fault.

Rai wrote:
> Tomm wrote:
> So why did Neal have to pay more?
>
> Because it was mainly his fault.

I gathered that, but I wanted to know the courts reason...

He saw "who started the fire" as immaterial and Neal had to pay that extra money because his inability to plea at the earliest possible chance.

Really it was me paying less due to my situation than neal paying more.

So your an official criminal now?

Dringo wrote:
> I have been forced to do 200 hours community service and pay a fine
> of £2000.

You say it like you were forced to commit arson...?

The chances of you getting pounded in the ass have diminished slightly.

Well, it could have been worse I guess.

monkey_man wrote:

> You say it like you were forced to commit arson...?

I've hardly been asked.