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I see Wayne Rooney has been given Community Service in a Garden Centre

WTF??

Since when does working in a garden centre constitute community service?

Where else to people end up doing to pay us all back for crimes and misdemeanours?

Isn't this some form of cop out?

I expect cleaning litter/painting over graffiti/things that feel like a proper punishment.

We are surely going too soft....

Getting community service for DD?

Did he whack the copper who pulled him over?

It's the older female staff members I feel sorry for.

One mans penance is another mans pleasure  rotflmfao

It said community garden centre and he's been helping those with learning difficulties.  So I don't think it is the kind of place you go to buy the missus a gazebo and hot tub.  Might be wrong though.

I am guessing it is macclesfield community garden centre.  Fits the description, and fairly sure you aren't getting a hot tub.  Cake and coffee looks a possibility, wonder if Rooney does a bit of serving.

Sounds like he will really learn his lesson under that hardship then.

Spending time with those less fortunate doesn't sound too bad.  I really dislike drink driving, but is this really out of line with what Joe Bloggs gets for it. 

Adz is just being a miserable twat today  :D

Unless you were about 5x the limit, and speeding. I thought you just had to cough some dough, and do 12-24 months cabbing it.

Joe Bloggs gets hit with a fine that hurts a bit, and doesnt have the comfort of knowing they can afford a chauffeur.

Spending time with those less fortunate certainly doesnt sound to bad. Probably goes home feeling all good about himself. Commendable on one level, but hardly punishment stuff.

It's unpaid work and he's going to feel really uncomfortable doing it for 200+ hours - of course it's punishment.

Dare say he gets way more rubber-neckers than Joe Bloggs.  The press must be camped out there giving him a hard time too.
 
Not really sure what else they can do.  They can't really fling him in jail if everybody else just gets fined a few quid.

imagine being at that centre and wayne fkn rooney rocks up in his orange jacket to do some weeding, class!

Perfect punishment I'd say, no amount of money would hurt him but this will.

I'm sure he'd rather give half a million quid than 200 hours of his time.

How many hours do footballers train? 2 hours a day maybe on average? So 14 hours a week. 200 hours probably equivalent of £7M based on his hourly.

Last I heard he was on about £500k per week but I may be wrong, I'm shit at football.

Agree.

HE might be Wayne Rooney all time english goal scorer, very famous, very rich. He needs to be reminded that he might be a big shot in a lot of ways but he's still a citizen of the UK and he is not above the rules and no amount of flinging 500 grand at the situation will fix it. Being rich won't help you here mate you're doing comm-service like anyone else.

Many years ago I did 100 hours community service. They put me to work in an Oxfam shop 3 days a week.

On the first day, the manageress set me on sorting clothes in the back room, on the second day I was in the shop proper labelling and hanging fresh stock and taking old stock down.

By the third day she had me pricing stuff up and working on the till.

On the second week she gave me the keys and asked me to open up the next day because she wouldn't be there until lunch time.

A couple of days later she said she wouldn't be in at all and to make sure I removed the takings from the till, counted them properly, put a note in the till and leave it open, and transfer the takings to the safe, for which I also had a key.

For the rest of my time there I was pretty much left in charge, with the the manageress popping in occasionally.

They had a policy of displaying stuff for a certain period and then chucking it in the rag man's pile if it hadn't sold. Oxfam don't accept offers, you pay the price on the label or you leave it where it is.

When I was in charge I put labels of good items saying things like 'These shoes are £70 in Clarkes, grab a bargain for a tenner' and I accepted any offer on stuff that was due to be thrown out in the next couple of days. It's amazing how much stuff you can sell if you cross out £5 and replace it with 'Now only £2'.

The manageress was thrilled to see the taking up by more than 50% but when I left she just went back to doing stuff the old way because it was company policy.

I bet it wasn't company policy to stay at home and leave a convict in charge of the shop.

thats a pretty fascinating story Tom :P

Brilliant!

+1

Enjoyed that, thanks.

I also had a punishment of 100 hours community service when i was young and foolish.

I had to attend a disused Railway Station about 12 miles away every Thursday.Half of the naughty people were set to work sanding down old chairs for the Salvation Army,whilst the other half were set to work repairing old fibreglass canoes.

It transpired that the man in charge of us was an alcoholic and at about 10 am he would wander off to a nearby pub where he would remain until our duties finished at 4pm.

Whilst he was absent ,the majority of us would wander into town and spend the day in a cafe playing the pinball machines and fruitys.The remainder could be found in the canoe room where they seemed to run out of solvents fairly regularly.

so wanted a different ending. But great story anyway. :)

Loved those tales from Red Dog & Boo Dog. 

Given that Tom got 100 hours for doing something naughty when he was younger, makes you wonder what hideous crime he went on to commit to deserve this long sentence.

What a great tale, but sort of backs up my question in the first place.

What did this benefit the community apart from allowing some flaky woman some extra time off? What will Mr Rooney be doing that will so benefit the community, and based on the two stories posted, will he spend much time actually doing anything or just be hero worshipped from the other Servees, whilst chatting up  to grannies and drinking powerade for 100 hours?

You are also a decent bloke Tom, so would expect nothing less from you, wp.

Thank you.

I'm an honest criminal.