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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???

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.

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!

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.

Dringo wrote:

>
> Gonna be a struggle for a while.

And for that, you have our sympathies.

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.

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

I know I would.

monkey_man wrote:

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

I've hardly been asked.

Well, it could have been worse I guess.

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.

So your an official criminal now?