Lettuce nose-stuffer avoids jail

[isv]

A guy gets filmed on a mobile phone - stuffing lettuce in his gob & up his nose whilst working in his local Subway store. The footage shows the lettuce going back in the container and joining the rest of the ingredients on the counter...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7...

When I first saw this I thought "yuck, fking little st" but then I saw his punishment - 300 hours of community service and he only avoiding six months in jail because he pleaded guilty early on... He's a young guy (could be major league chav FAIK) pranking around in front of a mate. Whilst I find what he did disgusting the punishment seems excessive - 300 hours of community service will take months to chew through...

He was prosecuted under the Public Order Act. But it made me think:

1. Anyone who has worked in a high st food retailer sees this sort of thing going on ALL THE TIME
2. How many of us performed some pretty stupid (on reflection) pranks when we were young?
3. He claims the lettuce was thrown away afterwards...
4. FFS, what do you expect in a Brownhills Subway anyway?
5. You should never "act-up" in front of someone with a mobile phone pointing at you.
6. The bloke driving the car next to mine last night was picking his nose and eating "it" - should I have filmed him on my mobile and uploaded it to YouTube and waited for someone to recognise him...?
7. What else could the Public Order Act cover and should I be worried?

Edited by isv on Thursday 12th March 10:52

[youngsyr]

Can I be the first to say:

"He risked getting six months in prison for sticking lettuce up his nose and then selling it to people, yet we routinely let muggers/burglars etc walk free from court? This country becomes more absurd by the day!!"

Thank you.

[southendpier]

isv said:

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The bloke driving the car next to mine last night was picking his nose and eating "it" -

Maybe he was coming home from a shift at Subway and had some salad up there?

[Somewhatfoolish]

I can't even understand why this should be illegal, assuming of course no one was going to eat any of this stuff.