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November 18, 2009

No good deed goes unpunished

Okay, if I had made this up you would all be saying, "Kinda funny but just too ridiculous".

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty".

There's just too much fail to really quote it all, but that sums it up right there. He saw a "black bin liner" near his garden. He checked it out and found a sawed off shotgun with two rounds for it.

Being a good citizen, he took it to the police and they arrested him and then the prosecutor decided to go to trial and then the jury found him guilty.
Too bad he didn't realize Britain doesn't have citizens anymore, they have subjects again.

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Judge Christopher Critchlow said: "This is an unusual case, but in law there is no dispute that Mr Clarke has no defence to this charge.
"The intention of anybody possessing a firearm is irrelevant."

Apparently, they're supposed to call their mommie....errr.... the police and not touch the evil gun, just cower in fear until the police take the bad gun away.

Via Cato, who calls it , "Beyond Parody".
Now I like Cato, but "beyond parody"? Where have they been the last 8 years? This is just the obvious progression.

Posted by: Veeshir at 04:25 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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1 I'd suggest making him an honorary US citizen, but he handed over the gun. He shoulda just kept it.

Posted by: Alice H at November 18, 2009 07:19 PM (qJHYy)

2 ^I wonder how many times he's thought that since he turned it in.

Posted by: Veeshir at November 18, 2009 08:30 PM (Zdd8x)

3 Hmmmm. I wonder if the Queen could be petitioned to pardon him.

That being said, this is fucked up beyond even my imagination.

No wonder the muzzi's are eating their country up, one bite at a time.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 18, 2009 08:53 PM (lYKj1)

4 Supremely fucked up.

Posted by: Nicole at November 18, 2009 09:14 PM (JTIQ4)

5 And yet, criminals roam parts of London with impunity, as if it was a Wild West area.

Posted by: eddiebear at November 18, 2009 10:55 PM (3j4Nz)

6 How is "possession" defined? Because it certainly seems to me that if he called the cops and had them pick up the gun, he would still be strictly liable simply because it was on his property.

Huh. Suddenly I have the strangest urge to watch Hot Fuzz. By the Power of Greyskull!

Posted by: alexthechick at November 19, 2009 09:19 AM (8WZWv)

7 Huh, and to think I laughed at my own Dad for dumping his unlicenced shotgun into the drink late at night. I told him that he could just drop it off at the local cop shop and they'd be cool.

Is it just me or does it seem like the the British cops, or Faggots as they are called in Brit slang, always seem to go after easy targets? They wait hours to respond to an assault but send 12 "Bobbies", or "Benders" to mop up the aftermath of a preschool racial teasing case.

Posted by: fozzy at November 20, 2009 02:58 AM (ccEuN)

8 Responding to an assault case might result in them getting their panties wrinkled.

Posted by: Alice H at November 20, 2009 09:41 AM (qJHYy)

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