I’m not a huge fan of the term “fuck around and find out” (or its past tense equivalent), meaning you wanna play games, you might not end up with the consequences you wanted. I don’t know what the Brit expression of the above might be, but here’s a real-life example:
A marked police car was chasing after a [car driven by] men who were driving at high speeds through London before crashing outside Central Middlesex Hospital this morning.
Now that’s a lucky place to crash if ever there was one. However:
A 17-year-old boy has been killed and a second is fighting for his life after the car struck a kerb and flipped over.
The 17-year-old was pronounced dead shortly after the collision on Park Royal at around 5:25am. Two other men in the car at the time were rushed to hospital for treatment with their injuries first believed to be life threatening. One remains in a critical condition with the other now said to be stable but still receiving medical help.
A fourth passenger was not seriously hurt in the crash.
So the Gods of the Copybook Headings came through, in this case, because TANSTAAFL/Ride (said Gods generally being the nemeses of the ungodly, as the ones dealing out the consequences.)
Of course, this being Britishland, there has to be An Inquiry, but I can’t see what for. Little shits were driving a car (probably stolen, 2:1) and that recklessly through an urban area. Had they collided with a pedestrian or another car, some innocent lives might have been lost. As it was, nobody dead except those that should be.
Just this once, I’d like to be heading up the inquiry. It would take about half an hour, and only that long because I’d order takeout pizza for everyone as we discussed the (very few) details before sending everyone on their way with no consequences for any of the cops, who were only doing their job, after all.
Of course, the parents of the deceased scrote(s, I’m hoping) will be all Weepy And Waily because their little Precious was a good boy who sang in the choir and they can’t imagine how he got involved in such Bad Company, and all the usual twaddle. They should be billed for the replacement value of the wrecked car as a consequence for not supervising their still-minor child. That they won’t be will just encourage similar negligence among other parents, unfortunately.
In case anyone has missed it, I’m not feeling in a very charitable mood today.
I call this “trash taking itself out.”
we had an event like that in New Haven, CT a couple of days ago. The five perps were aged between 11 and 15 years old. One went to the hospital and the other four were released to their parents with no bail, just a promise to appear in court. The little bastards ought to have the book thrown at them and toss a parent or two in jail for neglecting children or endangering their children. Maybe that will make the parents smarten up but I bet at least one of the sires and/or dams of those feral children is already intimately familiar with a prison.
As Heinlein suggested in Starship Troopers, when the child commits a crime and he is under age, that isn’t juvenile delinquency, the child isn’t an adult yet and cannot be delinquent. It is really the dereliction of duty by the parents, who, he suggested, through his Moral Philosophy instructor, Lieutenant Colonel Jean V. Dubois (Ret’d) that as punishment and a reminder of that duty, they be whipped in the public square before an audience.
I don’t watch or even read in-state news much these days. Found an article on this, and surprise, “Police said they believe the car the group was riding in has been involved in “multiple armed robberies and thefts” in the area recently.” Depressingly, I suspect all these kids may already be messed up beyond redemption. /sigh
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/east-haven-police-juveniles-arrested-stolen-car-19824815.phphttps://www.nhregister.com/news/article/east-haven-police-juveniles-arrested-stolen-car-19824815.php
“Kerb?” Ye gods. And warm beer. No wonder ye olde colonials kicked their arses.
No names, no descriptions. Gee, what should I deduce about the perps based on this very blatant lack of information?
Probably Mennonites.
They would say they weren’t Quakers. As you say, “Maybe they were Mennonites.” 😉
Most likely they are trying to prime the political pump to ban the police from chasing suspects in cars “for safety” as some Lefty jurisdictions over here have done.