Oh No!
The person opposite me at work said that if the person who'd just emailed her changes his mind again, she'd kill him!
Better get on to the police ASAP!
Twitter 'martyr' takes airport joke case to High Court
A man who was convicted of posting a tasteless joke on Twitter about blowing up a UK airport plans to take his case to Blighty's High Court. Human rights lawyer Ben Emmerson will head up the legal fight for Paul Chambers, according to the Associated Press. Chambers, 27, of was arrested in January for posting a message on his …
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Tuesday 23rd November 2010 15:55 GMT Dave 15
As normal
The law is an ass.
I'm sitting here with a fine for 500 for being out of the country 2 years without checking the dear DVLA managed to get the paperwork sent them.
The fine was levied without my being aware or invited to court to defend myself
The court then said I could make a statutory declaration and asked for my name and address... I gave them that in an email but apparently that wasn't good enough I should have realised I needed to phone them, and having not phoned them the fine will stand.
The bailiffs managed to find my address in 2 hours of the court deciding I hadn't paid the fine, but neither the court nor DVLA found it - despite it being easy to find.
Now I have to wonder whether my MP can do something before the bailiffs take my only means of getting to work... if they take it I can't work, if I can't work I can't pay a good deal more in taxes, and I will be claiming benefits.
Of course, had the stupid Labour government not been so stupid and had realised that a stupid piece of paper saying you aren't using your car was worthless, stupid and likely to just trip up normally law abiding people who just happened to be out of the country for a long time with their car parked on private property then the whole thing wouldn't have happened.
But to quote the 'lady' (hic) from the court ---- 'you didn't phone us, so there is nothing more that I will do, so you can just pay the fine'
Strangely enough the VERY SAME court levied a fine of 60 for a guy caught speeding for the 4th time by the SAME camera on the SAME residential road by the SAME school in Cambridge - something that can kill - where as not having a piece of paper is clearly very much more serious.
I am already looking abroad for more work, this time I won't ever return. You are welcome to the unpleasant, stupid, authoritarian, spy ridden, obnoxious shit hole we call Britain.
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Tuesday 23rd November 2010 22:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
That's nothing!
Last year I got a £100 fine for sending the Inland Revenue my tax return and then leaving the country for a few months, only to return the following March to find a reminder saying that I hadn't sent my return and also a later dated notice about the fine.
It's so unfair; the napkin I'd used had all the right details and everything!
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Wednesday 24th November 2010 10:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough.
While the comment was undoubtedly stupid, this is the thin end of a massive wedge. If a tweet can be judged to be menacing even when no menace was intended, then it doesn't bode well.
For example, a friend tweeted this today:
Damn! My flight is delayed! I've got five hours to kill at the airport.
Should this man be arrested for publicly posting his intention to start a 5 hour killing spree?
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