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What do you think?
Take no notice of some of the ramblings of some of the great citizens of Hull.
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nice but i would have preferred to see them swim to barton on humber
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Some common sense at least it seems.
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"officers came up with the innovative punishment in agreement with their parents"
So that's OK, if a bvlind eye can really be turned to whatever offence it was.
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I would imagine that the most likely outcome would have been a Final Warning or some such - maybe a ten mile run will be more memorable....the chattering classes seem none to pleased though.
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It just might, might make at least one of them realise a proper copper has given them an alternative to getting acriminal record, and may be grateful enough to behave, i would.
It's worth a gamble anyway if the young offender seems to have a bit about them, if they ignore the hand they've been offered i daresay they'll come to notice soon enough.
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"...On returning to the north bank, the youths ran to Hessle Road police station where they were given a final warning."
Seems they got one of those as well. :-O
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Back when I was fourteen, and thought I knew it all, I bought an old Honda 50 off a mate; all complete, not yer average field bike.
Ignored dire warnings from my parents, rode it round the block, wearing a crash helmet but of course no licence, insurance or MOT; was spotted by my dad but I hadn't seen him. He then had a word with the village bobby; two days later a traffic car pulls up at our house, two coppers come in, present me with facts which I own up to, I get a stiff lecture, they go away, and I'm sweating for a fortnight till the village bobby comes round and tells me there will be no further action, "But if I so much as hear of you riding that bike etc.......".
I didn't; because I didn't dare. Wasn't until I was a father myself that my old man owned up to the fact that it was he who had told the police.
That was then; regrettably it wouldn't be so effective today, simply because that respect for the police, and trust in them, no longer exists in society.
True justice would indeed have been for them to do the run in public with hi-viz vests detailing their crimes; unfortunately, because the well-meaning do-gooders think that such treatment might "damage" them, such a course wasn't open on this occasion, so IMO the police did the next best thing available to them; respect to them for it.
In today's society, all those ideas that the kids came up with are freely available on this and other mediums; in my day it would have been condemned as subversive. that's what's changed, and it's one genie that'll never go back into the bottle. Blame Grange Hill.
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I've very mixed feelings on this one.
I was in full agreement until I read that the lads were 17 yrs old.
This type of punishment is ideal and always worth a try but it would be better fitted using it on 12 to 15 year olds. Even more so, on those who are too young to escape court action.
I presume the parents have to agree to it and that is where it would fall down with the type of parents who think their children have 'rights'
At 17 yrs old these lads knew fine well what they were doing was wrong, and was a despicable thing to do. If they have no sense of responsibility by then, I fear it may well be too late.
Pat
Last edited by: pda on Tue 2 Nov 10 at 05:03
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Summary Justice? - Bellboy
