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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???

I'm not gonna write it, i'll use the experience in other ways. Probably best to stop it all now.

Stop being petty Light, it's hardly going to be that far down now is it?

Edit: It's 4/5 pages back. No you can't have the link.

Dringo wrote:
> Made a link to the court file further down the list.

Before or after I posted: -

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"

Further down?

Further down a 1650 reply thread? O-kay...

Mystique wrote:
> Six days later and still no link...
>
> BAM!

Made a link to the court file further down the list.

monkey_man wrote:
> 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.

Hah hah that made me go "Awww"...

"The blaze, which was not thought to be suspicious..."

:D

[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4307710.stm[/URL]

Six days later and still no link...

BAM!

Mystique wrote:

> What makes you think it's worth being in the news?

The journalist in the dpublic gallery was my clue.