{"id":6452,"date":"2011-07-23T19:55:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6452"},"modified":"2011-07-23T19:55:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T19:55:01","slug":"dead-parrot-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6452","title":{"rendered":"Dead Parrot Sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love this one from the Daily Mirror<\/a> in the week!<\/p>\n

\"Parrot\"A father-of-eight (good start) was involved in a high-speed police chase through Portsmouth at 3.30 in the morning. The chase lasted for two miles and four minutes, and ended with John Williams crashing into a fence.<\/p>\n

Williams tried to blame the episode over grief at the death of his pet parrot.<\/p>\n

Bearing in mind that Williams has a list of previous convictions (he’s been banned from driving nine times, and at the time of the incident was on bail for stealing from a car and going equipped for theft. He was later jailed for 25 weeks for that) it is hardly surprising that he “panicked” when a police car started following him on his 3.30am drive.<\/p>\n

He was jailed for a further 4 months and banned for another three years. Not referring to Williams, but speaking hypothetically about someone I made up with similar previous form, such a sentence could easily translate as only being banned for a couple of months until they get out and start driving in the middle of the night again. I just wonder what excuse such a person would have next time now the parrot one has been used up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love this one from the Daily Mirror in the week! A father-of-eight (good start) was involved in a high-speed police chase through Portsmouth at 3.30 in the morning. The chase lasted for two miles and four minutes, and ended with John Williams crashing into a fence. Williams tried to blame the episode over grief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,99,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-funny-related","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t