Well that is the headline in this Guardian story, which doesn’t come as any surprise at all – it is inevitable really. Even the BNP don’t deny that the numbers of racially-motivated crimes has risen where they have won seats – they just have a different explanation for it. According to them it is not [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Crime/ASB'
Rise in hate crime follows BNP council election victories
January 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
From each according to their ability…
January 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life
I did like what I read in this story from Switzerland.
Basically, a bloke got a speeding ticket and was fined £182,000 for doing 55mph in a 55mph zone. It might seem a bit harsh, but the amount was decided based on the man’s ability to pay and not the scale of the offence.
Some might think [...]
Badly Drawn Boy wanted for taxi murder
November 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Hat tip to Angry people in local papers
You know what? I reckon even I could get a job as a police artist in Bolivia. Love the way they keep zooming in on the picture to try and make it scary…
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Crime and punishment
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
I don’t know how American law works, hell I don’t even know how British law works, but I’ll be surprised if the victim of a child sex case can ask for charges to be dropped, even if the accused is an Oscar-winning film director.
Tags: Crime/ASB
Two thousand??
March 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
I am finding this story hard to believe. I am not saying that I think it is not true – I do not know enough about truck specifications have a qualified opinion – just that it is hard to believe, in the same way that it is hard to believe that something the size of [...]
Tags: Crime/ASB·Local Papers·WTF
Hanging On The Telephone
October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
Several times in the past I have banged on about damaged cable TV/telephone distribution boxes. I used to call Virgin Media to report them but gave up after being faced with a distinct lack of interest from them. The only time I would persevere now is if the one that feeds my house is open.
There [...]
At Swim Two Birds
October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Be on your guard: duck thieves are at large in Eastbourne. An alternative theory is that the two birds ran away because they didn’t like the implications of their names…. ‘Aromatic’ and ‘A l’Orange’.
Unfathomable
July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
Thats putting it mildly. The story of the murder of a pregnant woman called Kia Johnson in America plumbed new depths. It still has to go to court so mentally insert “allegedly” wherever possible here but the way it is being presented is that an obviously disturbed woman with a history of baby-snatching offences befriended [...]
Crime and punishment
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics, Technology
Talking about mobile phones, as I was a moment ago, I had one of my trademark bizarre ideas this evening. At a meeting of the Horsham Labour Party there was a lot of discussion about policies, which is always a good thing. It was prompted by some draft manifesto-type documents that we were invited to [...]
Booze on the tube
May 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Politics
I don’t have any problem with the principle of banning alcohol on the tube, but then I can’t really see the point either. I have shared tube carriages with rowdy groups who are certainly disturbing and probably intimidating to some, but I can’t actually remember seeing anybody drinking on the trains. The alcohol causing the [...]
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