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Title: Only in the USA Post by: Rod Paradise on January 09, 2008, 01:31:55 PM Like a bad remake of Weekend at Bernie's rotflmfao
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2237666,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2237666,00.html) Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: boldie on January 09, 2008, 01:35:19 PM bet ya half of Glasgow is reading this wondering why they hadn't thought of it...then again..that half of Glasgow doesn't read ;)
Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: steeveg on January 09, 2008, 02:02:08 PM ilol, i would love to be in court if they plead innocent and try to come up with some sort of excuse,
i remember 1 case in liverpool years ago ,i lad was on trial for stealing hundreds of tins of corned beef, the police found an address book with contacts and added a charge of conspiracy which carries a longer sentence, the only way he could get off with a lenient sentence was to try and make the jury think he stole all the corned beef on his own and had no intention of selling it, in the dock the prosecution asked him mr jones what did you intend to do with all this corned beef, he says, eat it, what do you think, prosecution says what, something like a thousand tins of corned beef and you plan to eat it all yourself, he starts getting all flustered and starts spluttering saying yeah,yeah i love corned beef ,honest i love it, it didn't do the poor lad any good when the whole of the court room couldn't help bursting into laughter, Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: boldie on January 09, 2008, 02:05:11 PM ilol, i would love to be in court if they plead innocent and try to come up with some sort of excuse, i remember 1 case in liverpool years ago ,i lad was on trial for stealing hundreds of tins of corned beef, the police found an address book with contacts and added a charge of conspiracy which carries a longer sentence, the only way he could get off with a lenient sentence was to try and make the jury think he stole all the corned beef on his own and had no intention of selling it, in the dock the prosecution asked him mr jones what did you intend to do with all this corned beef, he says, eat it, what do you think, prosecution says what, something like a thousand tins of corned beef and you plan to eat it all yourself, he starts getting all flustered and starts spluttering saying yeah,yeah i love corned beef ,honest i love it, it didn't do the poor lad any good when the whole of the court room couldn't help bursting into laughter, he should have asked if they know the cans have an expiration date of 2215...hundred of tins is a life time supply. Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: steeveg on January 09, 2008, 02:13:49 PM ilol, i would love to be in court if they plead innocent and try to come up with some sort of excuse, i remember 1 case in liverpool years ago ,i lad was on trial for stealing hundreds of tins of corned beef, the police found an address book with contacts and added a charge of conspiracy which carries a longer sentence, the only way he could get off with a lenient sentence was to try and make the jury think he stole all the corned beef on his own and had no intention of selling it, in the dock the prosecution asked him mr jones what did you intend to do with all this corned beef, he says, eat it, what do you think, prosecution says what, something like a thousand tins of corned beef and you plan to eat it all yourself, he starts getting all flustered and starts spluttering saying yeah,yeah i love corned beef ,honest i love it, it didn't do the poor lad any good when the whole of the court ro because he gotom couldn't help bursting into laughter, he should have asked if they know the cans have an expiration date of 2215...hundred of tins is a life time supply. Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: gatso on January 09, 2008, 02:17:46 PM the police found an address book with contacts and added a charge of conspiracy which carries a longer sentence conspiracy to supply corned beef? surely that's not a real crime and they found an address book with contacts? so what, that's what address books are for. or did it have known members of the merseyside underground tinned meat consortium? Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: steeveg on January 09, 2008, 02:41:06 PM the police found an address book with contacts and added a charge of conspiracy which carries a longer sentence conspiracy to supply corned beef? surely that's not a real crime and they found an address book with contacts? so what, that's what address books are for. or did it have known members of the merseyside underground tinned meat consortium? Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: gatso on January 09, 2008, 02:48:59 PM the police found an address book with contacts and added a charge of conspiracy which carries a longer sentence conspiracy to supply corned beef? surely that's not a real crime and they found an address book with contacts? so what, that's what address books are for. or did it have known members of the merseyside underground tinned meat consortium? my post wasn't meant to question you. it was more general amazement at our legal system. I can just picture to police calling in on everyone in the address book and asking them if they like corned beef and using the fact that a lot of them said yes as proof of intent to supply Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: boldie on January 09, 2008, 02:52:23 PM the police found an address book with contacts and added a charge of conspiracy which carries a longer sentence conspiracy to supply corned beef? surely that's not a real crime and they found an address book with contacts? so what, that's what address books are for. or did it have known members of the merseyside underground tinned meat consortium? my post wasn't meant to question you. it was more general amazement at our legal system. I can just picture to police calling in on everyone in the address book and asking them if they like corned beef and using the fact that a lot of them said yes as proof of intent to supply He's just lucky he did it in the 80's and not now. Just think..if the guy looked like he was an Arab, him and everyone in his address book would have been charged under the Terrorism Act ;) Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: MKKfish on January 09, 2008, 03:04:12 PM To be honest the defence made a hash of it.
Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: steeveg on January 09, 2008, 03:06:17 PM To be honest the defence made a hash of it. lol,Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: steeveg on January 09, 2008, 03:09:30 PM the police found an address book with contacts and added a charge of conspiracy which carries a longer sentence conspiracy to supply corned beef? surely that's not a real crime and they found an address book with contacts? so what, that's what address books are for. or did it have known members of the merseyside underground tinned meat consortium? Title: Re: Only in the USA Post by: Rod Paradise on January 09, 2008, 03:19:33 PM To be honest the defence made a hash of it. And the guy should have been set to the stocks. |