- 06 Oct 11, 21:52#278671
Cases like this attract such a huge amount of media hype I tend to have concerns about the final ruling. Then when a case like this has the ruling reversed it does set alarm bells ringing.
It does get you a bit worried even if it is for something very minor as happened to me but at least when I was charged with something I not only didn't do, but it was physically impossible for me to do, it only involved a couple trips to the local police station to get everything sorted out. I laugh about it now and (in the word of MrT) pity the scrawny jug eared fool that tried to pull a fast one.
I remember years ago I received a letter from the Procuator Fiscal telling me that I was no longer welcome in Woolworths and that they were not pressing charges for me being caught shoplifting. This was news to me as I was in a class with a teacher and about 25 other folk that could vouch for me when I was supposedly in Wooly's 20 miles down the road. This prompted severe winding up (heck, I'd extracted the Michael too) from my Dad who opened the letter and asked if I'd mastered teleportation without telling anyone. After about 11/12 years I'm still waiting for an apology that I was promised from the Procurator Fiscal!
Makes you wonder what on earth was going on when the arresting officer was so incompetant that they failed to check that the details given to them by a 17 year old that gave my name (even spelt my surname wrong), the wrong address and the wrong date of birth and looked nothing like me for something very minor and insignificant as nicking pick 'n' mix or whatever it was from Wooly's. If someone gets something like this wrong, it ruins any confidence you would have in them for anything which could have majour implications.
Anyway, I had the last laugh - Wooly's went tits up!
I still marvel at the intelligence of this criminal mastermind and wonder how they manage to walk down the street unassisted.
My ultimate nightmare is being arrested for a crime that I did not commit, so I might be a tad biased on this one.
It does get you a bit worried even if it is for something very minor as happened to me but at least when I was charged with something I not only didn't do, but it was physically impossible for me to do, it only involved a couple trips to the local police station to get everything sorted out. I laugh about it now and (in the word of MrT) pity the scrawny jug eared fool that tried to pull a fast one.
I remember years ago I received a letter from the Procuator Fiscal telling me that I was no longer welcome in Woolworths and that they were not pressing charges for me being caught shoplifting. This was news to me as I was in a class with a teacher and about 25 other folk that could vouch for me when I was supposedly in Wooly's 20 miles down the road. This prompted severe winding up (heck, I'd extracted the Michael too) from my Dad who opened the letter and asked if I'd mastered teleportation without telling anyone. After about 11/12 years I'm still waiting for an apology that I was promised from the Procurator Fiscal!
Makes you wonder what on earth was going on when the arresting officer was so incompetant that they failed to check that the details given to them by a 17 year old that gave my name (even spelt my surname wrong), the wrong address and the wrong date of birth and looked nothing like me for something very minor and insignificant as nicking pick 'n' mix or whatever it was from Wooly's. If someone gets something like this wrong, it ruins any confidence you would have in them for anything which could have majour implications.
Anyway, I had the last laugh - Wooly's went tits up!
I still marvel at the intelligence of this criminal mastermind and wonder how they manage to walk down the street unassisted.
