Re: ot: heard on news

In message <43652c73$0$352$da0feed9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, at 20:26:30 on Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Mr Scummy <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> remarked: 
Just heard the story where five teens died whilst in a stolen car,
being chased by police. Newsreader says to correspondent, "...members
of the town must be 'distressed'." I'm not evil, and I know the
national news needs to be impartial, but I'm not particularly
distressed by this news. I'm more distessed by the news the Police are
to be investigated.

Crazy, isn't it. Normally people demand that police crack down on drunken underage joyriders, but as soon as the yobs crash and kill themselves it's a tragedy and any police in the vicinity are investigated in case they might have distracted the poor joyriders (sorry, they're probably now upgraded to "lads") and made them

And people seem to think that disqualifying a driver is the ultimate solution, and yet these incidents happen with drivers below the legal age.

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Roland Perry
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