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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???

So you paying the fine back at 20p per week or something ridiculous?

I know I would.

Meka Dragon wrote:
> So you paying the fine back at 20p per week or something ridiculous?
>
> I know I would.

£10 a week apparently...

But that is expected to rise nearer the time.

Gonna be a struggle for a while.

Dringo wrote:

>
> Gonna be a struggle for a while.

And for that, you have our sympathies.

With regards to you wanting to be a teacher what are you going to do now? I myself work in a school and everyone has to be vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau and if anything shows up you can't be offered a job in a school.

I know it's harsh reading the chain of events but as far as I can see your desire to be a teacher has now been destroyed and you'll have to find a different career path for the time being at least.

Best of luck in whatever you decide.

Accept my regards for the future Dringo. It's all behind you now.

Now, let us all look back and laugh, as I said some hundred pages ago.

Ha ha ha!

Well, it's a kind of justice. Not the sort a lot of us wanted to see (the sort that involves being woken rudely in the night and made sweet, sweet love to by your cellmates), but at least the farmer will get something back for his woes.

Yeah.

This way he's only £95500 down.

Dringo wrote:
> 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.

Jesus. All that wailing for nothing.

What an anticlimax to your "book"

That's what insurance is for.

I tell ye a story. One year, twas 1993 or thereabouts, a young monkey_man took a brand new Nintendo Gameboy to Redbridge Sports Centre. But land pirates were yonder and said Gameboy was stolen from young monkey_man. Distraught be he, as tracked the thief was, but the receptionist had seen nothing and the Gameboy was gone. Many moons later the insurance cheque arrived - 30% short of the treasure requested. Yaaaaaaar, insurance is crap, knives are a much better solution.