Can't Think Of A Title - Brain Gone Fishing .....

[wolf63]

I know that what this guy did was OTT and he is being punished for this. But I am sure, at some stage in our working life, we have thought about doing this. Note the guys surname.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-23051603


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[jno]

thinking about it is still legal!

[ludwig]

I've never thought about doing anything like that.

[ladyalex]

I've thought about getting my revenge, but it has never involved smashing things up.
Hiding prawns where no one can find them so that the place stinks, now, that's a different story.

[emmie]

no point in smashing up the place,

[Bazile]

//But I am sure, at some stage in our working life, we have thought about doing this.//

Erm - no

[Canary42]

Judges always regard property damage as more serious than people damage.

[wolf63]

Maybe it was just me. I didn't do anything when I left my employer of 24 years and 33 days (civil service) as one night I went home and never went back.

[viv38]

Never have I thought about doing anything like this.

[emmie]

neither would i. i wouldn't land myself in jail over a job.

[bazwillrun]

"Judges always regard property damage as more serious than people damage. "

because the laws originate from hundreds of years ago when the local , lord baron etc made the laws to protect them and their property

[B00]

"He also daubed "gross misconduct" in blood on one wall,"

Urghhh, where's he get that from?

[Peter Pedant]

Blimey Volfie - you are surrounded by goodie-goodies whose life sum of naughtiness is recording Coronation St without permission

or perhaps just thinking about it....

Yeah I have never been drawn to criminal damage for fear of being made to pay for it. This started early with dinner damage during my days in the Bullingdon Klub in Oxford along with our Prime Minister and Mayor of London.

OK I am Cambridge but you know what I mean.

This is one of the reasons why I dont key cars either....

[Peter Pedant]

Oh, thinking about it,
yeah certainly up to and including bunny-boiling

The name ? Yeah that's good !
Am I the only person to notice the appropriate name of
Cynthia 'Sin' Bowers, lately of the CQC who resigned previously ?

Just think if she got knighted as a lot of health administrators do of varying quality, then, as she's currently out of a job she could become self employed as Lady Sin.....

[FredPuli43]

Times have changed. Years ago,judges regarded burglary at some wealthy person's home as worth 7 years; it could have been the judge's own home; but some working class innocent being slashed from ear to ear as worth about 12 months; no son of a judge, nor the judge, was likely to suffer that attack.

Now it is all reversed. Anyone who attacked a human with a hammer and inflicted that degree of damage would be looking at 5 years plus but the burglar might get 12 months.

[Kevink]

I've often considered smashing up my employer's office, but when I calm down I remember I'm self-employed.

[anotheoldgit]

While in no way condoning what this chap did, I do think that a 20 month jail sentence, along with the restraining order, somewhat harsh.

/// The restraining order will prevent Crook from contacting former and current staff at Bristol Flying Centre or visiting the premises on his release. ///

Surely this is a violation of his 'human rights, i am not talking about Harassing former or current staff at the Flying centre, but how can anyone be ordered from talking or continuing a previous friendship with ex work mates?

[jake-the-peg]

20 months is harsh but it was a very extreme case of criminal damage!

Human Rights only apply to governments - you can't sue a private individual or company for breaching your human rights.

Personally I think if this was changed we might see some very positive benefits but at the moment thats what we have.

For example state run OAP homes have been sued for breach of the human rights of their residents but private homes are immune from such prosecutions

[Maydup]

The behaviour was manic, i have no sympathy. Nor have I felt the need to smash a place up thankfully.

[anotheoldgit]

jake-the-peg

/// Human Rights only apply to governments - you can't sue a private individual or company for breaching your human rights. ///

Are not judges working on behalf of the state, so surely it is still a breach of his human rights, since it was a judge who made this order?

[FredPuli43]

Didn't realise that judges are working on behalf of the state. What happened to separation of powers? Always thought they were to uphold the law, for all of us.