Sensible decision by the judge now if only more would give people a chance for their first offences.
All pigs are equal
That is a really good picture of him.
I wonder if he was a trainee electrician or plumber would he have been spared a criminal record?
The war on drugs failed *years* ago and is only really used to target specific groups of people, this lad obviously isn’t part of those groups.
>Kelly brought €500 to court to offer as a charity donation but the judge said she required a €1,500 payment if a conviction were to be avoided.
>After this was paid, she told the accused: “Everybody makes mistakes, it’s behind you now, draw a line underneath it.” Before striking the charges out, the judge added: “Be very careful, your future is very precious.”
He literally bought his way out of going to prison.
Edit: thinking further about the payment, it seems like he almost tried to bribe his way out by bringing €500 to court, unprompted from what I can tell, and “offering” it to charity.
*”Now make sure you don’t get caught again, try be a bit more secretive about it next time”*
Look, virtually everyone that gets caught with stuff at festivals gets a slap on the wrist. Go to Portlaoise courthouse every September – there’s a day out for lads in shitty suits to plead guilty for having a bag of this or that at Electric Picnic. They pay into the poor box and don’t receive a conviction.
I like the cut of his jib.
Are you complaining that he got off despite having 3 of your own convictions?
The middle classes do most of the drugs, the working classes face most of the consequences.
I was at a festival recently and my friend hooked up with a doctor who was there. She was there with a whole heap of other doctors. What struck me was how much drugs they were all doing. It’s not that I don’t think all walks of society do drugs, I just was a bit taken aback at the assortment of drugs they had and how messy some of them were.
Good of the Irish independent to post his picture like that though anyway.
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Sensible decision by the judge now if only more would give people a chance for their first offences.
All pigs are equal
That is a really good picture of him.
I wonder if he was a trainee electrician or plumber would he have been spared a criminal record?
The war on drugs failed *years* ago and is only really used to target specific groups of people, this lad obviously isn’t part of those groups.
>Kelly brought €500 to court to offer as a charity donation but the judge said she required a €1,500 payment if a conviction were to be avoided.
>After this was paid, she told the accused: “Everybody makes mistakes, it’s behind you now, draw a line underneath it.” Before striking the charges out, the judge added: “Be very careful, your future is very precious.”
He literally bought his way out of going to prison.
Edit: thinking further about the payment, it seems like he almost tried to bribe his way out by bringing €500 to court, unprompted from what I can tell, and “offering” it to charity.
*”Now make sure you don’t get caught again, try be a bit more secretive about it next time”*
Look, virtually everyone that gets caught with stuff at festivals gets a slap on the wrist. Go to Portlaoise courthouse every September – there’s a day out for lads in shitty suits to plead guilty for having a bag of this or that at Electric Picnic. They pay into the poor box and don’t receive a conviction.
I like the cut of his jib.
Are you complaining that he got off despite having 3 of your own convictions?
The middle classes do most of the drugs, the working classes face most of the consequences.
I was at a festival recently and my friend hooked up with a doctor who was there. She was there with a whole heap of other doctors. What struck me was how much drugs they were all doing. It’s not that I don’t think all walks of society do drugs, I just was a bit taken aback at the assortment of drugs they had and how messy some of them were.
Good of the Irish independent to post his picture like that though anyway.