Two lovely examples of why UK law manages to bugger up everyday life for the ordinary folk.
A couple of days ago we heard the quite scary story of how a North Sea oil platform was being evacuated due to a security scare. If Al Qaida could manage to organise an attack on such a facility I'd be much more worried about them than I am now. Then it turns out it was all a panic caused by a 23 year-old woman who worked on the thing having said she'd had a dream about there being a bomb on board. From what I've read this lead to a series of Chinese Whispers which created a panic. Almost funny until you then hear that the woman has been arrested, is being charged with breach of the peace and has been sent to a secure mental unit for 'evaluation'.
All because she had a bad dream and the folk who overheard her discuss it paniced and are now embarrassed by their over-reaction and waste of, reputedly, £1,000,000 in costs for the evacuation.
Case two sees a man who was attacked whilst sitting in his car by thug wielding a knife and a baton get three years for driving over him. Anyone stupid enough to attack someone who is sitting in a car takes the risk of getting run over whilst said person tries to escape. As long as he didn't back up for another go there should be no case to answer here.
I despair.
A couple of days ago we heard the quite scary story of how a North Sea oil platform was being evacuated due to a security scare. If Al Qaida could manage to organise an attack on such a facility I'd be much more worried about them than I am now. Then it turns out it was all a panic caused by a 23 year-old woman who worked on the thing having said she'd had a dream about there being a bomb on board. From what I've read this lead to a series of Chinese Whispers which created a panic. Almost funny until you then hear that the woman has been arrested, is being charged with breach of the peace and has been sent to a secure mental unit for 'evaluation'.
All because she had a bad dream and the folk who overheard her discuss it paniced and are now embarrassed by their over-reaction and waste of, reputedly, £1,000,000 in costs for the evacuation.
Case two sees a man who was attacked whilst sitting in his car by thug wielding a knife and a baton get three years for driving over him. Anyone stupid enough to attack someone who is sitting in a car takes the risk of getting run over whilst said person tries to escape. As long as he didn't back up for another go there should be no case to answer here.
I despair.
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