{"id":9438,"date":"2012-07-06T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9438"},"modified":"2012-07-06T10:57:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T10:57:45","slug":"inconsistent-punishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9438","title":{"rendered":"Inconsistent Punishments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned <a title=\"The Morons Will NEVER Learn! Part III\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> two cases recently<\/a> of idiotic driving. In one case, the culprit was removed from the gene pool as a result of his own behaviour &#8211; fortunately, before he removed anyone else &#8211; and the other had the book (admittedly, a paperback rather than a hardbound encyclopaedia) thrown at him.<\/p>\n<p>In that second case, Christopher Jones was jailed for 25 months, banned for two years, and ordered to take an extended re-test.<\/p>\n<p>So it is hard to work out how they arrived at  what this moron was stung with.<\/p>\n<p>Leigh Brennan was already banned as a result of failing to provide a breath specimen on an earlier escapade. He did the same again this time &#8211; but not before he\u2019d smashed into a Mini and then demolished a pub wall &#8211; which collapsed on top of the landlord.<\/p>\n<p>All he got was a 12 month sentence and banned for 2 years. Arguably, he came closer to killing someone than Jones did in the other story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Philip Miles, defending, said Brennan now recognises he has a problem with drink and has sought help.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cHe has made great strides since this incident and is changing his life around.<\/p>\n<p>He deserves credit for his plea of guilty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bullshit! He deserves to be put away for a long time and banned from driving permanently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned two cases recently of idiotic driving. In one case, the culprit was removed from the gene pool as a result of his own behaviour &#8211; fortunately, before he removed anyone else &#8211; and the other had the book (admittedly, a paperback rather than a hardbound encyclopaedia) thrown at him. In that second case, [&hellip;]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":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}},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}