I suppose it makes a change from the usual drunk driving stories...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6192628.stm
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I jest:
I suppose this could be the police getting the boot in.
He could not have been speeding as he did not put his foot down.
This was a clean sweep for the law.
Even if he had escaped, he could never have made a run for it.
Anyone else like to join in? :-)
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Roger
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No. Family friend has no legs as a result of the "Falklands Experience" He can drive though !
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Uncle by marriage was one of the last to have polio as a teenager. Didn't stop him driving an automatic Jaguar (new every other year) for the 40 years I knew him.
and fathering three daughters..
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No defence, he hasn't got a leg to stand on.
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Is it the same Robert Bate who, "[having ] drunk 16 pints, [was] cajoled into acting as a lookout for two friends during a burglary in Easington Colliery. The home owner, a security guard, was asleep in his sitting room when he heard a disturbance at the window at 4am. He saw three men, one of whom appeared to be sitting down. ?His attention was drawn to the defendant, who had no legs,? the court was told. The three fled and the house-owner saw one man pick Bate up and carry him away." ? (www.newcastlestuff.com/March02/March02.html )
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One of my best friends is paraplegic following a car crash - I'm not mocking those who've had that sort of misfortune.
I've no sympathy for this chap - for one thing, he could have a free, taxed and insured car with hand controls simply by using his disability allowance!!! A corsa or suchlike would be completely free other than fuel. No excuse.
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I can't help but feel a lot of sympathy for someone in that situation who decides (like the blind driver reported a few months ago) that they want to get mobile despite all the obstacles, and who does it in a mad burst of danger rather than in a responsible way with proper hand controls. I suspect that a court might have been much more sympathetic if he hadn't been doing drugs as well.
Like HJ, though, I do wonder what good 12 months in jail will do in this case. Drug rehab, counselling, and a hefty dose of community service would seem like a more productive option, at lower cost to the taxpayer and with far less chance of reoffending. But, as usual, we don't have all the facts which were before the courts ...
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He certainly gave it a bit of stick - in fact he caned it...
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