So The Longer Suffering Tax Payer Will Pick Up The Bill As Usual....

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/632989/Woman-wrecked-ambulance-drink-binge-jailed-Zoe-Wheeler
Is there no way to claw back costs from this pond life?

[Old_Geezer]

Does society ever get the costs of repair from vandals ? This is a drunken drug addict, out of her tiny mind; the system ought to be good enough to handle whatever they are capable of.

[ToraToraTora]

they should attach a bill to her NI no then if she ever gets sensible and earns then she can start paying.

[Old_Geezer]

Trouble is, that's an incentive not to get sensible and contribute to society.

It's a little like the scheme of sending all kids to uni with loans that they only need to pay back once they start earning a certain amount. Those who go on to well paid work would have done so anyway and pay more tax; those less capable have no incentive to strive to improve themselves and earn the higher pay.

[retrocop]

Keep her in prison on hard labour without drugs,booze etc until she has recouped the labour costs to repair and replace the ambulance and equipment.
Basically you work for the minimum wage for as long as it takes in the nick. No appeal.

[ToraToraTora]

yep fair enough OG that's valid. Great Idea retro, they should have some system for doing that.

[Jackdaw33]

From the town where I was born. I am ashamed. It was never like that.

[EDDIE51]

A drug addict with an alcohol problem and a prison record ?
I think that answers your question about reclaiming costs !

[EDDIE51]

Work and earn the minimum wage in jail ?
Where is the work going to come from? .They stopped sewing mailbags a few years back.
Free food , free clothes, free accommodation no travel costs and a wage of £6.50 an hour !
They will be fighting to get sent to jail!

[ChillDoubt]

Madness. On top of the damage she caused we now have to pay for her 'punishment' whilst she has 3 square meals a day in relative comfort.
I'm guessing she's on benefits, easier to just stop those until all damages have been recouped. If she had enough money to pay for a 4 day bender she's obviously getting far too much already.

[Baldric]

Attach an order to her benefits, and enforce it.

[EDDIE51]

''Suffers from anxiety, depression, psychosis and has a history of self harm''.
Another case of a person who has severe mental health problems being sent to jail where the problems will just be made worse,rather than getting treatment.

[ChillDoubt]

Sounds like she's too busy getting p!shed to get treatment, Eddie!

[youngmafbog]

Stop the bleedin heart stuff Eddie. Hard action is needed against her sort.

Starting with Jail, lets get it back to a punishment, hard labour and a start to contributing to society.

[viv41]

'Pond life' - Great way to describe this waste of space.