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Posted: 20-09-2013 12:59 Post subject:

The second time I've visited Slate today:

Posted: 20-09-2013 14:11 Post subject:

Posted: 20-09-2013 17:48 Post subject:

A lot of people talk back to their TVs. I shouted out loud three times watching this week's Breaking Bad. OK, they meant the TV was at high volume.

Posted: 25-09-2013 00:11 Post subject:

He is doing fantastically well at school. He comes from a very, very good family . .

But Mum turned him in, when she found the stained notes and a fake firearm in his bedroom. He is 15.

"Liverpool youth court heard he was motivated to carry out the raid because he was envious of other people's material possessions."

"I'm not fucking messing around" . . . The robber ordered the cashiers to "fill that up with money", then added: "Don't do anything stupid. I have just got out of prison after five years."

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Should go far! Sad

Posted: 02-10-2013 22:38 Post subject:

The British Columbine or just a nerd?

The list of weapons is quite long and any one of them could cause considerable damage to flesh or property. Yet I feel the event - which we were mercifully prevented from witnessing - would have been a damp squib. We lack the flair for these things.

The court will decide. Confused

Posted: 13-10-2013 09:49 Post subject:

The moment brave neighbours foiled a car thief
Neighbours stop a car thief getting away by holding onto the doors of the vehicle, despite his threats
[video]
By Patrick Sawer
7:00PM BST 12 Oct 2013

A car thief was trapped by residents inside the vehicle he was trying to steal, after he brazenly asked the owner’s neighbours to move their own car so that he could make his escape.
The neighbour did not know Matthew Draper and went to ask the mother of the car’s rightful owner whether she recognised the man.
When they realised what Draper was up to a group of residents held the doors of the Smart Roadster shut so that he could not escape.

The car’s owner, Tanya Miles, returned to her Swansea home to find Draper, 27, using a screwdriver to threaten those keeping him trapped inside her car.
She climbed onto the back of the car to try push his hands back inside, only for Draper to spit at her, before trying to kick the window out.

When Draper was eventually searched by police they found a camera, which Miss Miles kept in her glove box, in his pocket.

He later admitted criminal damage, theft, going equipped and failing to provide a specimen of breath in relation to that incident.
He also pleaded guilty at Swansea Crown Court to the separate theft of a car CD player and a burglary.

The court heard that Draper and another man went to the home of Dean Thompson on June 26.
The second, unknown man, told Mr Thompson that a stereo he had been sold belonged to him.
When he refused to give it back, the pair pushed past him and knocked him to the floor
The pair picked up the stereo and left, leaving Mr Thompson, who was on crutches at the time having broken his leg four days earlier, on the floor.

Draper, aged 27, has a number of previous convictions including offences of assault, shoplifting and burglary. He was jailed for 32 months.

Giles Hayes, for Draper, said his client’s offending was linked to his drug use.
He said his life had been relatively stable after his release from prison but that fellow users had contacted him through social media and he went back to drugs.
Judge Huw Davies told him his drug use had left him “out of control”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10375079/The-moment-brave-neighbours-foiled-a-car-thief.html

Posted: 15-10-2013 13:02 Post subject: