[CB..]

i agree --one of the new ideas is that a criminal will get a reduced sentence if he agrees to apologise to his/her victim...
no one of course stopped to imagine wether
a/ the victim wants to to be forced against their will to accept an apology from some assh*le they don't know and wouldn't want to know if they were the last human being on the face of the planet...
b/what if the victim doesn't accept the apology...yes great all the criminals mates will burn his/her house down -steal their car shove excrement through their letter box and ohh lots of other very entertaining jolly japes and shinanigens ..tho not neccesarily of course in that order...re the letter box thing and the burning down of the house..of course..silly me..
c/taking for granted that the criminal hasn't really got a hieghtened sense of socail finery..all he/she has to do is open their mad sick gobs and utter two words...whom exactly will be there to assertain the sincerity of the statement...and will this be taken into consideration whilst adjusting the sentence...who decides...all very freudian and abstract in nature..
d/oh i can't be bothered...if i'm a victim i'll probably be charged with contempt of court if i refuse to turn up for this apology...yet again the situation of the criminal is my responsibility not his/hers...yawn..it's getting VERY old now...
b~ll*cks to it..!!!

i can be fined 200 pounds for smoking in a pub whilst all hell is breaking loose on the street out side because every single idiot in the country has decided that it is impossibly un cool to drink just two pints ...you have to get drunk...meantime three people are pernamently disfigured because they have been very politely glassed and seven hundred thousand girls are constantly repeating "he's not worth it" over and over again whilst collectively jumping up and down with glee and showing their back side to passers by..(as a rule..)

nothing makes sense..it's just not "joined up thinking" it's legislation by two year olds for two year olds..dam shame as i'm far too old now being as i am four years old and all i want is to sit in a pub drink two pints over a period of 4 hours whilst smoking the occasional ciggerrete..(now a criminal offense)..funnily i have never seen street fights requiring half the local police forces attendance along with just as many ambulances and even the occasional fire engine out side the tobaconist on the courner...strange that...still ho hum

and so it goes ever on...some one some where has got to be having a laugh..