Re: Mortified.

In article <3_j3n.10$_s5.2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Harry Stottle
<thiswontwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 at 13:33:59 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
"Tiny" <dhsrcragg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It seems the police confescate and destroy anything used as a
threatening weapon - even if you are in your kitchen cutting bread
with a knife and the terrified (by knife or bread?) yobs are banging
on your window and making suggestions having got into your garden over
the fence.

With this in mind just wave the object you wish destroyed at a yob
and the police will take the object away and destroy it.

The police have to follow the rule of the law, even if they don't agree with
it, then, unless someone is daft enough to plead guilty to an offence of
threatening a yob with said offensive weapon, it would be up to a judge and
jury to decide if a crime has been committed. If you then take into account
that a jury would be made up of people who hadn't committed serious crimes,
and were more likely to support the aggrieved citizen than the yob, and thus
decide the aggrieved citizen was innocent, any confiscated weapon would
probably be returned, unless it was an unlicensed firearm ;-)


Except it would normally be a judge, in the form of a magistrate, who
would decide your guilt or otherwise and they have a tendency to
convict.

--
Nicholas David Richards -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"
.

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