Andy Banks jailed for a fortnight

[Captain Colonial]

Story here

 

/waits for warning points and / or posting ban 😄 

[Alan France]

About time.

[Blatman]

25 minutes ago, Captain Colonial said:

Story here

 

/waits for warning points and / or posting ban 😄 

 

Time for a posting blitz from me to take back pole position

[marcusb]

28 minutes ago, Captain Colonial said:

Story here

 

/waits for warning points and / or posting ban 😄 

or better still reinstatement as Chairman 😀

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

What about further sentencing for fibbing about his age!

[Captain Colonial]

4 minutes ago, marcusb said:

or better still reinstatement as Chairman 😀

Cruel and unusual punishment...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...for the club members. 😛 

[Maurici- CleaR Motorsport]

I see that @Captain Colonial keeps his bitter sense of humour:)

 

How r you doing? Easing things a little bit or still home grounded?

 

Can't wait till @Andy Banks - Chairman checks this!!

 

[Captain Colonial]

It’s a strange comfort to know some things don’t change, isn’t it @maurici? 😄

 

Thanks for asking about me good sir, much appreciated.  At the moment it’s like being in an open prison.  I can go out once a day for a walk, but no shops and no contact with anyone closer than 3m, and that’s limited to one person outdoors.  1 July is still the big freedom day... unless something goes wrong in society and they push it back - again.  

 

I think the evidence suggests that unlike wine, age and confinement has not improved me. 😄 

[Maurici- CleaR Motorsport]

Well. Little steps forward.

 

2 minutes ago, Captain Colonial said:

1 July is still the big freedom day.

About that... do it when you feel right. 

I dont think you will be any safer 1st of july than june 25th nor in any more danger than july the 4th. But you can't just live grounded the whole life.

 

At that point, i think the most important topic is that you actually feel safe and you have peace of mind to slowly re-start mundane activities like getting p******** @ the pub and driving the wench when you are in the mood, rather than strictly following the "rules"... (sorry, my rebel Spanish personality is talking here). But i really think the "how you feel about all" is way more important than "what they say about that"...

 

Keep the good mood. Whenever it happens... all this **** must finish.

[Captain Colonial]

Thanks @maurici much appreciated and I very, very much agree.   Really can’t wait to get out in the Wench instead of finding improvements to do to it.  If it’s not raining next weekend, I think getting her out for a blast would be good for me.

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

Does anyone else feel the sentence to be rather harsh?

 

I'm not for one minute supporting or defending the thuggery we've seen in recent times, however from the picture we've seen, it looks more like someone desperate for a wee and trying to do it as discretely as possible given he's in central London etc. Finding toilets in London was hard enough before Covid 19 lockdown of pubs/restaurants etc.

 

I don't think for a minute he knew it was a memorial or indeed wanted to defile it!

[jeff oakley]

No not too harsh, it is just that other sentencing is far too soft so it makes it look that way. 

 

In Bristol there has been no attempt to punish anyone who pulled over Colstons statue, one which was erected to celebrate his philanthropic work not his links to slavery. There is enough evidence but unfortunately the council claim it is not their statue so will not file a complaint but which was worse mob rule or one man?

 

Clearly this man was a drunken idiot who had no real idea why he was there, maybe this might teach him there are consequences

[Steve (sdh2903)]

Yes and no.

 

Having read the story it said he was there 'to protect statues but didn't know which ones' which just shouts (to me) he was there for a ruck. 

 

If everyone who got pished and had a pee in the street was imprisoned for 2 weeks we better get building some prisons. 

 

I guess the prison sentence was for a combination of his reason for being there and getting photographed doing the act. 16 pints the night/morning before wont help his bladder control either.

 

Contender for a Darwin award me thinks.

 

 

[Captain Colonial]

10 minutes ago, Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO said:

Does anyone else feel the sentence to be rather harsh?

Jail time?  Deserved.  Two weeks (one week in reality)?  A bit OTT IMHO.  One week (three days in reality) would have been more sensible, and I say that only because he was completely drunk and I doubt he even saw the memorial.  If he’d seen it, was sober and did it on the memorial deliberately, then I’d say six months.

 

Fair play to his father for getting him to own up to it.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

28 minutes ago, Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO said:

Does anyone else feel the sentence to be rather harsh?

 

I'm not for one minute supporting or defending the thuggery we've seen in recent times, however from the picture we've seen, it looks more like someone desperate for a wee and trying to do it as discretely as possible given he's in central London etc. Finding toilets in London was hard enough before Covid 19 lockdown of pubs/restaurants etc.

 

I don't think for a minute he knew it was a memorial or indeed wanted to defile it!

I agree. It was obvious that he wasn't wantonly peeing on anything bar the wall. His father sums it up by saying "he's a plonker!" Two weeks in prison when others get suspended sentences for far worse transgressions - or 'no further action due to lack of evidence' makes a mockery of the judicial system IMO.