Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2009.11.18 17:00:00 -
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Edited by: Destination SkillQueue on 18/11/2009 17:01:47
 Originally by: Tallaran Kouros
Originally by: Arik VanClaw
Wow, is it really that bad in England these days? That common sense takes a back seat to government bureaucracy?
Uhm, there is going to be a LOT more to it than that.
1) You don't just "ring the Chief Superintendant" and ask if you could "come in for a chat" - that just doesn't happen.
2) Why did he not mention the firearm on the initial phone call?
3) Possession of a firearm is a strict liability offense - there is no defense of public interest in the legislation.
4) He found a firearm and picked it up? What a ****ing idiot. With no way of knowing where it came from or what crimes it may have been used for, there is NO WAY that I would want my fingerprints all over it or for me to have any connection to it whatsoever.
The smart thing to do would be to call the police and TELL THEM what you found and then let THEM come and dispose of it.
I accept he may have been acting with the best of intentions, but I'm afraid that the law does not recognise good intentions and before anyone goes on about "how bad" things are here or how much liberty has been lost etc etc, the law has always been this way even before any terror witch hunts.
It sucks what happened to him, but he was a ****ing idiot to think he could just walk into a police station with a firearm and hand it in.
It still sounds like a ******ed thing to do. If I found a firearm, the first thing that comes to mind is to put it into a container without getting prints on it and take it to a police station. Calling the police to pick it up would be an option, but it seems like ******ed thing to do to punish a guy just for delivering a firearm he found to the police. Possibly ending up in jail for years for it is just so stupid that it boggles the mind. I don't know how english law is interpreted, but I find it hard to believe this case and decision was an intended consequense of the law.
That said the little I read of the story sounds a bit weird, but there is no way of knowing if there anything odd or shady going on, that warranted them to suspect his story, since the article clearly wants to focus on this particular viewpoint of the case.
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