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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Animal on December 06, 2002, 07:58:40 AM
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3008138&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
BANDERA, Texas - - A jury handed a life prison sentence to a Texas man who shot and killed a longtime friend he accused of drinking the last beer in his refrigerator.
Yeeeehawwww for Texas!
IMO, justifiable homicide.
Mason, walk away slowly from that beer...
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so was Udie the shooter or the shootie :)
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That's why I'm a teetotaller.
Shuckins
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by beet1e
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
A much cleaner and elegant signature.
But your posts still need a bit more work. How about some content?
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But your posts still need a bit more work. How about some content?
None needed!
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what beetle is trying to say is that to prevent one idiot from killing another drunken idiot we need draconian laws like in limeyland... (they know a little about drunks there) With luck we will get these results..
lazs
"Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday February 23, 2001
The Guardian
England and Wales have one of the worst crime records in the industrialised world - even worse than America - according to the findings of an official survey published yesterday which compares the experience of victims across 17 countries.
The study, coordinated by the Dutch ministry of justice, shows England and Wales at the top of the world league with Australia as the countries where you are most likely to become a victim of crime. These countries face an annual rate of 58 crimes for every 100 inhabitants.
The findings, based on interviews with 35,000 people about their experience of crime across the 17 countries, were carried out last year. They are a blow to Labour's record and underline the challenge facing Tony Blair when he marks the launch of Labour's 10-year anti-crime plan next Monday by becoming the first serving prime minister to visit a prison.
The 2000 International Crime Victimisation survey shows that the falls in crime recorded since the mid-1990s in England and Wales are part of a general pattern of falling crime across the industrialised world but, unlike America, crime levels in England and Wales are still higher than they were at the end of the 1980s. When the survey was last carried out in 1996, England and Wales also topped the league table with 61 offences per 100 inhabitants.
The survey does show, however, that Britain has the best services when it comes to looking after the victims of crime, but it also shows we have a tougher approach to punishing criminals. Asked what should be done with a burglar convicted of stealing a colour television for a second time, more than 50% in England and Wales said he or she should be sent to prison for two years. Only 7% in Spain and 12% in France thought he or she should be jailed at all.
People were asked whether they had been victims of a range of 11 different offences in the previous 12 months, including violent and sexual assault, car crime, burglary and consumer fraud.
The survey also shows that Scotland, with 43 offences per 100 inhabitants, ranks joint fifth alongside America in the international crime league behind England, Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Northern Ireland has the second best crime record of the countries surveyed, with 24 offences per 100 inhabitants - the same rate as Switzerland and only just above Japan where the biggest crime problem is bicycle thefts. The detailed findings of the ICVS survey showthat England and Wales are top of the international league for car thefts with 2.6% of all car owners suffering the loss of their vehicle in the previous 12 months. In other sorts of car crime, England was second only to Poland.
Australia and then England and Wales had the highest burglary rates and rates for violent crimes such as robbery, assault and sexual assault "
the result of the backward thinking of the home office is the brutalizing of its helpless citizens... helpless to defend themselves against the strong and the vicious... a trajic example of "form over substance"... "let them eat cake" The lawless run england... In America... 3,000,000 such crimes are prevented by firearms each year... citizens have freedom and dignity one good thing about englands crime rate.... they have, obviously by necessity, learned to care for the traumatized, humiliated and injured victims...guess that's something
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Wonder what kind of beer it was.
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Originally posted by -Concho-
Wonder what kind of beer it was.
Probably Pabst Blue Ribbon? That stuff will make you do dumb things..... :D
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Pearl
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Always reminded me of swallowing a teaspoon of dirt with every drink.
Originally posted by midnight Target
Pearl
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What Beet1e seems to be saying is that the gun itself was responsible for the guy killing his friend over the last beer.
If we had strick gun laws, that guy would never have snaped like he did. :)
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I think taking a man's last cold one is a capital crime in Texas, anyway. He should have just called the cops.
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when I saw the title of this thread the first thing that came to mind was: duh!
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C'mon now, we all know that we should outlaw beer. I mean, had there not been any beer then there would have been no beer to take. Obviously it was the fault of the beer. :rolleyes:
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The lesson here: don't drink beer. Drinking beer can kill you.
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Gofaster ............then i am one dead dead dead man ...........
BOX
:cool:
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in texas they gave someone life rather than the (cheaper & much more convenient & dramatic) penalty !?!?! <--- see the collection of '!'s & '?'s, i'm incredulous
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Must have been a good beer.
comradII
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"What Beet1e seems to be saying........."
Lazs & Crumb - I didn't say anything.
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Beet1e wrote:
America’s constitutional right to bear arms is an anachronism dating back to the 18th century. In modern times, it is an unmitigated disaster which has given rise to many millions of privately owned guns and an alarming homicide rate, with a tally of more than 300,000 firearms related homicides in the past 25 years. While no law can be 100% effective, Britain has no “gun culture”, and much stricter firearms controls which have contained the annual tally of gun related homicides to a double digit value - fewer than one fiftieth of the American gun-related homicide rate per 100,000 population.
What is all this then?
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Nuke, that's proof Britain has more, and more violent, criminals than America.
All those violent criminals still seem to murder far fewer people than America, though.
Wonder why that is?
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Just as we all wonder why Canada, with a plethora of guns that nearly rivals the US has lower rates than both the UK and the US.
Wonder why THAT is, don't you?
Oh, btw, Canada also has a much lower incidence of "sharp instrument" homicide than the UK and the US.
Wonder why THAT is, don't you?
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Its because of stories such as this one that Brittain has banned cold beer.
AKDejaVu
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geuss it could have been Lone Star... The national beer of Texas
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It's far too cold up there Toad.
From watchin TV I KNOW it's hot where all this goes on. Some sort of requirement for wearing dirty tee shirts or tank tops and having less then perfect dental work..
I SEEN IT ON THE TV IN MY LIVING ROOM !!!