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Offline beet1e

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« on: December 20, 2002, 05:54:28 AM »
I read with dismay a report in today's Times Newspaper. We need more jails! We no longer have the option of Transportation - sending crims to Australia.

In the same paper I read that more armed Police are to be deployed on Britain's streets to counteract the increasing presence of criminals with handguns.

Beam me up, Scotty. I want to go HERE...
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« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2002, 06:01:05 AM »
"A first time burglar who breaks into a house and steals goods of high value and does so when the victim is at home should receive a community punishment if the court plans an 18-month sentence"


Cool you get one jail free home invasion! You people are nuts.
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« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2002, 06:04:33 AM »
Not all of us, ust those that read the Times.

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« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2002, 07:15:00 AM »
Maybe you should get a criminal ticket... with little "punch out" dots... for every citizen.

One free burglary, one free rape, one free car theft, one free assault and one free "general" category crime (criminal's choice).

You know, everyone gets a "get out of jail free" card, like in Monopoly.

When all the dots are punched out, then the little scamp has to go to Jail for two weeks or something and also gets a STERN warning not to misbehave again.

Of course, you COULD do the reverse "transportation" idea. All the decent, law-abiding Englishmen can leave and move to some pretty island with nice beaches and leave old Blighty to your criminal element.

That would solve the problem too, I guess.
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« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2002, 07:21:16 AM »
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...more armed Police are to be deployed on Britain's streets to counteract the increasing presence of criminals with handguns.

The easy answer to this problem is to pass stricter gun laws.  If guns weren't so easily available to criminals there would be less gun crime.  It's good that more police are getting guns though.  Only the police and the army should be armed.

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« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2002, 07:24:21 AM »
Just give property owners hand guns and you may see burglaries go down. As it stands now it seems like a burgler can get 2 get outs jail free cards. Do ya think that this could spark an increase in first and second offense burglers?

I bet they would best less inclined if they knew that they may run into an armed property owner. This may kill 2 birds with 1 bullet. Reduction in burglaries and a reduction in the prison population.

Or they could hand out knives if thats what Brits prefer.
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« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2002, 07:52:53 AM »
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Or they could hand out knives if thats what Brits prefer.


It's that old "Saxons and Normans" thing they played when they were kids...



"Tommy and Geoffrey! Put down the swords and shields and do come in! It's time for Tea!"

"Awwwwwwwww... Mother!"

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« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2002, 08:04:39 AM »
So... lets see... you have so much crime that you can't jail your criminals... you give your criminals a "pass" to solve thed problem... at the same time... you don't allow your law abiding citizens to have guns to stop crime or defend themselves against an increasingly bold and armed criminal class but....

 you are now arming cops so that when they get to the scene of your death by a criminal they don't take any chances of being killed themselves.   I bet it's comforting having a cop show up with a gun after you've been hiding upstairs while the burglar cleaned you out..

yu guys will get it in a decade or so maybe.
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« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2002, 08:08:08 AM »
I've been lucky never to have been a victim of burglary. But I'm beginning to realise HOW lucky!

BTW Mr. Toad - that beach was the one you should have gone to when you flew into Nice. The beach at Nice is too stony, although the water's nice and clear. :) Not bad weather for late October. Here's another one of the beach. I picked up the real estate brochures when I was there. Also, can you check your logbook for Friday May 30th 1997 - I flew from Nice to JFK on Delta, and back on June 8.
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« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2002, 08:14:56 AM »
doh!  HERE's the beach...
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« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2002, 08:25:57 AM »
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doh!  HERE's the beach...



OOOOOOO!!! Yankee's gonna get poopy on this one!
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« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2002, 08:29:13 AM »
sorry excuse for a beach sir :)


here are some beaches:






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« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2002, 08:30:12 AM »
Did someone say beach?
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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2002, 08:30:54 AM »
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« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2002, 09:00:52 AM »
Criminals have guns?  Burglary on the rise?  People defenseless in thier own homes?

Oh my!

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