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01-09-06, 10:43 PM
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Moral dilemma (not mine) - what would you do
I think I'd have done the same. But I don't spose she bargained on 10 months inside.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/5306740.stm |
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01-09-06, 11:00 PM
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Easy decision to make when its not your kid - shop them. For their own safety if for nothing else!
If it was my kid then maybe the decision would not be so simple... |
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01-09-06, 11:03 PM
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Me too. Good to see the mum taking responsibility - bummer about the consequences - maybe he had some priors??
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02-09-06, 08:20 AM
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Yes, I would shop them. The consequences of riding drunk do not bear thinking about. It is dangerous enough out there sober.
For their own sake, they have to learn a bitter lesson.
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02-09-06, 09:26 AM
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Definately would have done the same thing, it would have been for his own good.
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02-09-06, 09:36 AM
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No question whatsoever I would have done the same.
Because Id rather live with the guilt of shopping him than if he had killed himself or someone else. |
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02-09-06, 09:38 AM
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Very difficult one. I think I would have sabotaged the bike, cut the HT leads or summat.
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02-09-06, 09:38 AM
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Its what my mum threatened me with when I passed my car test at 17.
Didn't really need it - would never drink and drive (and as I hardly drink now it doesn't really affect me) But yes, she did right
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02-09-06, 09:48 AM
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She did right in that instance - but it seemed she was perhaps not aware that he had no licence or insurance, hence the harsher sentence methinks.
So either she'd had the wool pulled over her eyes about the rest by her son - or she wasn't much concerned over being insured and passing his test. I'd hope the former - though I think it makes her son a bit of a git as well as an idiot. 
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02-09-06, 12:15 PM
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A similar case in New Zealand backfired badly recently:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...334254,00.html |
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