law and order


After another eye-bleedingly dull day in ungainful employment Jeffman has reached the conclusion that the only way to beat the astronomical odds that have been stacked against him is to sue some other bugger for their money. Everybody else in this day and age is using the courts to bolster their lack of income, so why shouldn’t he?

the barrister's opening gambit to the court was

I have taken the liberty of drawing up a shortlist of people to sue with handy tips should those of you at home wish to acquire your own retirement fund.

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It’s a sign that Gary Glitter’s back in the country when it emerges that staff at Telford and Wrekin council in sunny Shropshire have been ordered to stop and question any adult that dares to set foot in Telford Town Park without at least one child to hold their hand.

penguin banned from telford town park

Now, as you probably know, I’m the sort of chap that believes everything he reads in the newspapers and on the internet (if it’s in print, then it can’t be lies, can it?), so when I catch sight of a story in not only the Metro newspaper (free of charge to anybody brave enough to set foot on a West Midlands Travel bus), but also upon the esteemed BBC News website, well there can’t be any dispute in its validity.

So let us delve a little deeper into this story and extract a few tasty morsals upon which to chew.

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In these heady days of lenient sentencing and punishments unfitting of the crime, isn’t it reassuring to know that there’s one judge out there keeping his feet firmly on the ground?

In doing so he flies in the face of popular criticism levelled at the modern judiciary by issuing sensible sentences that cock a proverbial snook at the barking mad stereotype Judges presently enjoy.

judge dredd - a judge with balls

I refer, of course, to the eminent Judge Lord Matthews, who this week dealt with a mad Glaswegian who’d strangled his wife to death after she refused to give him any beer money, by banning him from going to the pub.

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