Category Archives: Legal lunacy

Greater Manchester Police record snowball fights as ’serious violent crime’

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 22, 2010
Gratefully received from a friend of mine, this week’s first dose of insanity involves the Greater Manchester Police recording snowball fights as serious violent crime. As the article makes clear, ’serious violent crime’ is supposed to be incidents such as murder, rape and inflicting injury with a weapon. Clearly it would have to [...]
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Fancy £100Kpa and a £2m house in Maida Vale? Come on down!

By scrubber | Published: February 16, 2010
Proof, as if proof were ever needed, that the incompetence of this Government knows no bounds. This article in the Daily Mail yesterday is a shocker… “A single mother-of-six is getting more than £80,000 a year from the taxpayer to live in a £2million mansion in an exclusive London suburb. Essma Marjam, 34, is given almost £7,000 [...]
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Driver fined for blowing his nose

By scrubber | Published: February 4, 2010
Apologies for the lateness of this one; it’s several days old, but I received an email from a reader in Australia pointing out this article, which although slightly factually incorrect, led me to find several reports on the net, the best of which was here, in the Daily Mail. This must surely be a candidate for [...]
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Big Brother is watching you…

By DiamondGeezer | Published: January 18, 2010
Hat-tip to the Telegraph today for this article on a man arrested for ‘thought crimes’ in writing on his Twitter account that he would blow an airport ’sky high’ if he wasn’t able to make his flight. Now it’s not a joke I would make myself, but I think that most sensible beings would soon realise [...]
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Blair’s millions: is the mystery solved?

By scrubber | Published: December 17, 2009
Well now, here’s a thing. I always thought the Grauniad was a friend of all things lefty, especially New Labour and “our Tone”, but it appears not always. At the beginning of December, the Guardian set up a competition which they described as “an experiment in crowd-sourcing“, to find the best explanation for Blair’s complex financial [...]
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More family court madness.

By DiamondGeezer | Published: November 20, 2009
There may be more to this than meets the eye, and the Mail has of course from time to time been known to sensationalise, but on the face of it this sounds pretty appalling. The benefits of having influence from both parents is well-documented, and it seems as though the father comes from a [...]
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