City Cycling
How can one have sympathy for a man who:
- drinks six pints of beer in one session
- fatally wounds another person
- leaves the injured bleeding to death, escaping the scene
- tries to cover up the evidence of his weapon
- flees the country to avoid being breathalised?
Well, Judge MacKay of the London Court of Appeal, was so impressed by the fact that David Chandler eventually gave himself up, that he shortened the original sentence to just 3.5 years. Oh, and 18 months after coming out, Chandler will be able to drive again.
Unless there is change of course by the judiciary, I suspect that people will start meting justice by themselves, especially in the coming turbulence when bankrupt states will have less money to pay for policing.
(Hat tip to Bill for the story)
Image by Hans Ray
Article posted Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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Of course. cyclists are just low-life scum and losers who clutter up the roads and impede the movement of society's go-getters and wealth-creators from one power breakfast to the next: rather as if you had dozing Indian peasants in bullock carts creaking along the M25.
If you think it's bad here you should try Poland where I spent two years teaching medical English. In that country cyclists are regarded with complete, ruthless disdain by motorists and have to cycle on pavements the whole time otherwise they'd be dead within hours. Five years back we met an former classmate of my wife's where we lived in the north of the country. She seemed rather sad, and we discovered that a year previously her 20-year old son had simply disappeared one Sunday afternoon: went out for a ride in the country on his mountain bike and was never seen again. There was not the slightest reason why he should have chosen to go missing (doing well at university; just got engaged etc.) so the only conclusion they and the police could come to was that a motorist had whacked him on some lonely country road with no witnesses, chucked the bike into the nearest lake and bundled the body into the boot to be buried later under cover of darkness somewhere deep in the forest. His parents and fiancée were by now reconciled to the fact that they would never see him again, and the police had just closed the file.
Jeremy Clarkson is hugely popular on Polish TV and was recently voted the country's favourite Englishman.