I saw the slack jawed bint interviewed last night.
Unbefuckinglievable. Although not quite as bad as the bloke who got banged up for 8 years for handling a stolen Shakespeare book, and on the same day, in the same court, someone else got 5 years for killing someone, with a possible sentence commuted to two and a half years.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:18, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I value antique books WAY above human life, if I'm honest.
Human beings are massively overrated.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:21, Reply)

So does the law, it would seem.
It depends on the human.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:23, Reply)

Sentencing can be a joke at times

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:25, Reply)

I say I say I say...
What do you get if you whack someone on the head in an unprovoked attack, causing them to crack their skull and die of their injuries three days later?

I don't know your honour, what do you get if you whack someone on the head in an unprovoked attack, causing them to crack their skull and die of their injuries three days later?

Two and a half years! Boom! Boom!

eyethangyew.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:29, Reply)

Or nowt if you're in the riot police

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:35, Reply)

Very true.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:36, Reply)

oooh controversial

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:37, Reply)

I tells it like it is
Sistah
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:40, Reply)

You're a step away from snapping your fingers and doing the neck thing

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:49, Reply)

I bet he did it secretly when no one was looking at him.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:53, Reply)

I can do the Black Woman Headbob quite well
I'm going to give my children ghetto names. "HEY! Chardonnay! Krystal! Alopecia! Rwanda! Get yo' black ass over her this instant!"
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:53, Reply)

man I actually know a girl called Krystal.
she is the biggest tart.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:54, Reply)

You missed out Chlamidia.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:00, Reply)

Sold her off, didden-aye

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:02, Reply)

Depends on the coperation of the defendant to
pleading guilty makes a big difference.
Plus this wasn't just any book this is a piece of english history that was stolen from a University.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:27, Reply)

In that case
anyone living in housing made from the stone taken from Hadrian's Wall should be publicly flogged for their complicitness in the desecration of a scheduled ancient monument.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:32, Reply)

Correct.
EDIT: Well...correct apart from 'complicitness' which you KNOW you just made up. Complicity, dear boy, complicity.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:35, Reply)

I knew you'd agree Monty old chap.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:37, Reply)

Terribly sorry
I'm multitasking and everyone knows blokes can't multitask.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:43, Reply)

What does it matter if it was any book or not
That guy wasn't just any guy. I'm sure his life was more valuable than any book. You really can't put a book above someone's life.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:38, Reply)

Unfortunately, in British law
property is valued above human life, acocrding to some ex copper on the radio this morning.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:40, Reply)

It's very sad
There's something wrong with us and our laws, if we can't change something so obviously wrong.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:47, Reply)

I fucking can, you know.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:40, Reply)

Tell that to the bible/koran/blah blah

(PsychoChomp, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:40, Reply)

But there's millions of humans and only one of that book.

( girlinthehole, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:41, Reply)

No, there are about thirty copies of that book.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:43, Reply)

Well there's billions of humans so her point is still valid.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:46, Reply)

I do apreciate that the odds don't change much with that few copies.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:47, Reply)

Fucking hell!
Stop the internet, Chompy just agreed with Blousey.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

There are thousands if not more, of copies of that book
There is only of that one, that exactly, that only book.

There was one of that exactly, that only human being. There are not even copies of him anymore.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

There are not thousands of copies of the first folio.
Only 1000 were ever printed, and only between 230-240 still exist - and each one is individual from the next, which is how they proved that the book that was stolen was the one from Durham.

I'm not saying that a book is worth more than a life, far from it, by the way, but I am saying that the sentence given to the man for defacing a part of British (and literary) history for personal gain is bang on.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:22, Reply)

I would happily trade the lives of
'Jobless mum-of-eight Theresa Bystram, 45, and her three teenage sons' for that book. No question.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:46, Reply)

I'd trade them for a dog-eared copy of 'Where's Wally?'
That some Downs Syndrome kid had defaced with crayon.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

^This.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I would happily trade the lives of, etc
for a decent ham sandwich right about now, but I seriously doubt their collective worth is sufficiently high
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

too fucking right
I'd trade her life for any of the books in my collection.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

So would I
But I would make he read it all out loud, before letting her drop.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:49, Reply)

you'd be there all fucking year
maybe start with the Hungry Caterpillar instead
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Ok,
I'll hook the trap door to a computer already programmed with the complete works, and if she stops reciting or makes a mistake, the computer trips the trap door, and then sends me an E-mail.

I can be at home with my feet up watching Dave or having a wank while I wait.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:54, Reply)

Don't forget you are talking to social retards who only know one or two people but have many books.
So of course they value books more highly than humans.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:42, Reply)

I think you're talking sense there
You have to be retard to value a book, any book, above a life.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:49, Reply)

Erm,... I have many more books than friends myself.
Three books in fact.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:56, Reply)

That's a lot of friends
if you have 2.

I have more books than friends myself, but then I love reading.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:59, Reply)

In one case I did
The defendant pleaded guilty, then changed it to not guilty on the day of sentencing, then at the rescheduled trial (4 months later, and after Christmas), pleaded guilty again. Due to wasting the court's time, he was given a jail sentence and a fine, but he argued that his wife had terminal cancer, and he was her only carer, so the sentence was suspended, and his fine wavered...

Still, his lawyer would have cost him a packet, plus he's on the register now.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:39, Reply)

I would have thought more of you Monty
It all hinges on potential in my opinion
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:26, Reply)

I heard that on the radio yesterday
There was a guy trying to explain why. The fact that the book was precious doesn't make it any better. Surely the live of that murdered guy must have been more precious than any old book.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:36, Reply)

I'm not defending criminals (besides working for a criminal defence firm of course)
but a lot of prisoners get what's called an IPP sentence, which means imprisoned for public protection. This means they have to prove that they are rehabilitated before they are let out, the sentence of 5 years or so is the minimum they have to serve. No one gets out on their minimum tariff, especially if they have killed someone.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:40, Reply)

I'm surprised you didn't show up with Gazza mate,
what with you both being dirty Geordies :D

/massive generalisation
(TheColonel, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:51, Reply)

Watch it Smog man.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:21, Reply)

;)

(TheColonel, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:05, Reply)