Yesterday a couple of blokes were standing on an open air train platform and having a cigarette while they quietly waited for their train. A woman, who had apparently done the same thing earlier in the week, decided to harangue them and told them to put their cigarettes out. It ended with one of them pushing her away and she fell off the platform and broke her wrist.
Well, that's not a very nice thing to happen to her and it's regrettable that she had a fall. On the other hand being loudly and aggressively harangued by some nosy intrusive busybody when you are doing no harm to anyone, and then having them do it to you again the next time they see you also isn't very nice. I'm not at all glad that she got hurt but you know what? I'm glad that for once one of these self-righteous anti-smoking fascists found that while she may have been within in her legal rights to hassle these men, on this occasion it wasn't entirely without cost.
The Times Online says:
The men made obscene gestures as she walked past them shortly after 7am, a police source told The Times. “She turned round and told them to grow up, and they pushed her. She stumbled backwards and fell on to the track. We don’t think they meant to push her on there. They were as surprised as she was.”
Another bit of news was about a Scotsman who, when his elderly wife who looked after him wouldn't hand over cash for him to go boozing, strangled her until she was dead. The Judge said that prison wasn't the right place for him. Presumably the Judge thinks that relatives, neighbours, or the female care assistants and frail inmates of residential homes for the elderly would be much better able to physically handle a murderously violent elderly alcoholic better than could burly prison guards and tough convicts. This murderer was 'punished' by being told not to go to the pub for 12 months. That's it, that's his only punishment. Meanwhile his poor wife lies cold in the ground and he's ticking off the days whenhe can go to the pub instead of sending next door's nipper to the Off Licence.
So, based on the above, what punishment will the blokes who pushed the woman get do you think?
2 comments:
The elderly (think he's in his 70s) glaswegian who got the restriction order insetad of jail sentence for killing his wife has dementia or alzheimers...It's not just the pub he's banned from but he's banned from being out of doors between x and y hours...Am not saying that he didn't do wrong but if he has dementia that bad that he didn't even realise properly he was killing his wife then he should be somewhere he can be looked after properly
As for the woman who was shoved over and fell and broke her wrist i think i may have felt like shoving her deliberatly to fall that way...Am nasty me :o)
I agree Icky that he should be somewhere to be looked after properly - he should also be somewhere where he's not at liberty to strangle anyone else. Who is going to be looking after this murderous old thug? How safe are they going to be? Would you send your daughter round with his shopping and laundry? Would you go yourself?
He should be in prison imo.
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