RIP - Hadrian’s wall tree

[Drago]

They going to jaaiiillll!

Bubba is browsing the wedding dress catalogue as we speak.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

This guy wants a word

 

[Drago]

Just another opportunity for the lawyers to bill another day.

They do indeed like that sort of thing.

For example, people think they're being clever when their solicitor tells them to go "no comment."

Not so.

Particularly in cases where the evidence may be marginal, a straight denial may be enough to knock it on the head then and there. 'No comment" maintains the possibility of a guilty plea in court, which solicitors like as it gives them another payday. Multiple solicitors and police station reps have admitted this to me over the years.

Better just to say "I deny the allegetion completely" and then answer all further questions with complete silence if you want to do your best to avoid being charged in the first place.

So yes, their briefs will have been pushing for pre-sentence reports for no other reason than it keeps them on the gravy train a little longer. It's unlikely to benefit their clients an any tangible way, and kicking the prison sentence can a little further up the road is arguably prolonging the angst on top of the sentence to come, so is not really in their interests.

Their own ridiculous and fanciful denials preclude any viable opportunity to give any mitigation.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The number of time I see programmes on the TV where criminals realise they have committed a crime and it has been discovered

but keep stuff that is clear evidence that they were the people who did it

and then try to deny it


is just incredible

I mean - at leats delete the bloomin video showing you doing it and hope they can;t recover them

 

[Beebo]

The number of time I see programmes on the TV where criminals realise they have committed a crime and it has been discovered

but keep stuff that is clear evidence that they were the people who did it

and then try to deny it


is just incredible

I mean - at leats delete the bloomin video showing you doing it and hope they can;t recover them

Better still. Don’t take the video in the first place.

Top tip for all wanna be criminals. Leave your phone at home.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Better still. Don’t take the video in the first place.

Top tip for all wanna be criminals. Leave your phone at home.

Or like travellers to the US, get yerself a PAYG burner phone

 

[vickster]

From Matt today

 

[Reynard]

If you have space and you regularly burn wood, buy a log splitter. Couple of hundred quid and you'll get one that will eat that up

I burn wood to feed my heating, and looked into getting a log splitter a while back. And didn't buy one because I couldn't justify it. If your wood isn't over knotty, a log maul will split that readily enough.

The bigger pieces, I will saw in half (along the grain) which renders them split-able.

If nothing else, it's good exercise.

 

[Oldhippy]

What aren't people as outraged about 1000's of rainforest trees being cut down daily? Lots of woodland being destroyed to build on?

 

[No Ta Doctor]

This is how we split wood in Viking lands

 

[markemark]

I burn wood to feed my heating, and looked into getting a log splitter a while back. And didn't buy one because I couldn't justify it. If your wood isn't over knotty, a log maul will split that readily enough.

The bigger pieces, I will saw in half (along the grain) which renders them split-able.

If nothing else, it's good exercise.

For sure a splitter doesn’t do anything you can’t do without one. Just a massive time and energy saver

 

[AndyRM]

What aren't people as outraged about 1000's of rainforest trees being cut down daily? Lots of woodland being destroyed to build on?

Plenty are, and I do think the reaction has been a bit overblown, but I suppose isolated incidents like this have quite a dramatic effect which can lead people to consider issues like mass deforestation more seriously.

 

[Reynard]

For sure a splitter doesn’t do anything you can’t do without one. Just a massive time and energy saver

Saves me on coughing up for gym membership

Seriously though, it's also having the space to put it when it's not in use, along with the initial outlay. I'm on solid fuel heating here (no mains gas, nowhere safe to put an oil tank) and so wood forms 90% of my fuel. I will use coal as well, when it's really cold. Don't think I didn't do a good analysis on whether it was worth it.

And yes, I also manage a few acres of woodland, so am often dealing with whole trees.

 

[stephec]

I feel like their defence spent most of their time with their heads in their hands.

Can you imagine that first conversation they had?


There's a video of you doing it that you filmed yourselves?

Yes.

And you're pleading not guilty?

Yes.

I think you should plead guilty straight away.

I'm going to say that he made me do it.

I don't think that's going to work, you should seriously consider pleading guilty.

No, I'm not changing my mind.

Right, well I'll do my best, but......

😂😂😂

 

[DRM]

The pre sentencing report has just been released