A Few From My Village



Landlord of my local pub is known as Fester as he's a dead-ringer for Uncle Fester from the Addams Family. He used to have a barman who was known as Thing.

We've also a chap in the village called "Mick The Bastard". He's *always* referred to by his full name - Mick The Bastard.

Story has it that he was arrested and hauled up before the judge. The clerk of the court read the charges out and then asked:

"Can you confirm that you are Mick McNamara of blah-blah-blah?" asked the clerk.

"No" says Mick
"What?" says the judge
"I'm Mick "The Bastard" McNamara. I had my name changed by deed poll last week"

As he wasn't the person named on the charge sheet they had to let him go and re-arrest him in his new name and set a new court date.

He turns up in court and the Clerk says:

"Are you Mick "The Bastard" McNamara of blah-blah-blah?"
"No" says Mick. "I'm Mick McNamara - I had my name changed back last week by deed poll"

So they had to let him go again. They got him eventually though.

I've never examined the details of this story closely to see if it is actually possible to annoy the justice system by doing this. I liked the story too much to let a mere thing like truth get in the way...

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 18 May 2006, 16:35, Reply)