Magistrate insanity

http://snipurl.com/gonetothedogs

How the *hell* can that be an appropriate action?

 

WTF?!

You have to be taking the piss?

Banning someone from driving for non-driving offences is madness. I
can't see any justification for it at all.

 

(SteveH) wrote in :

They tried the conventional means in 2008 which the **** ignored.

Deprivation of liberty is an alternative penalty. I quite like the
imaginative approach. If the **** has a similar dependency on the use of a
vehicle as you then I think it would be a huge incentive to stop being a
****.

 

As others have pointed out, it's a great deal of inconvenience, dealt
to someone who was causing inconvenience to others, over a long period
of time.

I think it's a sound punishment.

 

I'd agree - although I seem to be the only one so far. I'd just keep
fining him.

 

I'd have fined him then hit him with an asbo if he didn't sort it out
then jail him if he ignored the asbo. Taking someones driving licence
away for no traffic offences is ridiculous.

 

I think we have to be careful, given the number of new offences
introduced in recent years.

Put some metal in your plastic recycling bin - that can end up being
dealt with through the courts - are we now in a position where you could
be banned from driving for doing it?

It's not so much this single case, rather the precedent it now sets -
magistrates are quite often a bit loopy, so I wouldn't want to trust
them with this kind of power.

 

Given that it's a driving 'ban', does it need disclosing on the naughty
areas of the insurance applicaion?

 

Yes.

 

I'm with you and Steve on this one. It's taking unreasonable measures
that are not in any way, shape or form linked to motoring offences.

 

Cycling offences?

 

I agree and add it seems like an admission of failure by the Court.

There must be more to it however. Non payment of fine and Contempt should
put him in the Pokey.

 

Does the dog only bark when in the car and the car is moving?

 

You're comparing apples with bacon. Putting a piece of metal in your
recycling bin, could be an honest mistake. Letting your dog annoy the
whole neighbourhood, continuosly, over an extended period or time, and
then subsequently ignoring the mandate to fix the situation, is in no
way a mistake.

 

In the eyes of UK law, putting metal in a plastic bin is an offence,
though.

Apologies for the Daily Mail link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027770/Households-fail-recycle-
waste-face-50-bin-fine.html

If you do it a few times, would it be fair to lose your driving licence?

 

In the same Journal, this made me smile:
http://tinyurl.com/yaay65w
where the article does mention the real point, despite all the obfuscation,
if you can spot it

"It also suggests that the undersea route would save lives, reduce global
warming, protect property values and safeguard local industry"

 

That's ridiculous. Surely the dog should have been shot and the **** of
an owner beaten with it's still warm and bloody carcass.

 

Ah I'm glad there is someone who can take on the Mantle

 

<sigh> no.

If you went around putting metal in everyone else's recycling bins (or
gardens or whatever), repeatedly, for an extended period of time, and
after you'd been mandated not to, then perhaps.

Doing it once, or just a few times, and only causing annoyance to
yourself, is not the same.

 

Did you design a sign I saw in a shop?

"shoplifters will be beaten, smashed and stomped. Survivors will be
prosecuted".