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To cheer you up on this snowy (really !) Wednesday:
Last August the wife's MX-5 had the NS window put in and the thief attempted to prise open the glovebox. He failed. Sadly for him the entire chain of events was recorded on CCTV and the Milton Keynes police arrested him.
My missus got a letter yesterday thanking her for reporting the incident. The little bastard is now doing 6 months bird in a Young Offender's Institute.
It turns out that another 8 incidents of a similar nature took place on the same day - these were taken into account.
Only downside I can see is that he'll get 6 months to hone his skills even further
Last August the wife's MX-5 had the NS window put in and the thief attempted to prise open the glovebox. He failed. Sadly for him the entire chain of events was recorded on CCTV and the Milton Keynes police arrested him.
My missus got a letter yesterday thanking her for reporting the incident. The little bastard is now doing 6 months bird in a Young Offender's Institute.
It turns out that another 8 incidents of a similar nature took place on the same day - these were taken into account.
Only downside I can see is that he'll get 6 months to hone his skills even further
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Yeah, and when he gets out, he can sue the owner of the CCTV for getting him put in slam and traumatised...
A mate in the US of A sent me this the other day. Somehow it seemed to match the mood of the above. Sorry if it's off-topic.
The Ant and the Grasshopper
ORIGINAL VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying in supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying in supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well-fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house, where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."
Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of Federal judges that Bill had appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug-related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
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