You couldn’t make it up

jon ryan

I'll be interested to see which of the wingnuts from these forums vanishes for the next 20 weeks.

I know who my money is on

Ian C

That's what we like down here in Cornwall....! leave us alone and let us role in someone else's muck if we want !!

Hammerstein Seacole

Which all goes to prove that
'you should hurry in the slurry when yer unhinged on the top.'

David

"Truscott, of Redruth, Cornwall, was jailed for 16 weeks at Truro Crown Court in October after he admitted harassment. "

"Truscott was jailed for three years in 2005 after admitting causing three fires at the farm which destroyed a farm and killed a cow. "

Hmm. Not quite as "PC gone Maaaaaaaadddd!!" as you make out, eh Rod?

Rhoda Klapp

Not for the action, but for doing it on the farm in breach of a restraining order. Did you actually read the story you linked to?

Rhoda Klapp

Oh, and is your weeknight pleasure to do with immersing yourself in slurry, or the other thing?

Jez

Police state!

ee seacole

20 weeks, hey jon? hell, we'll miss yer.

rod liddle

David, Rhoda - with respect, I was not being entirely serious.

EyeSee

I thought under New Labour your sexual orientation was sacred and should not be criticised (or found strange or heaven forfend, illegal)? See how easy it is to get confused. Like I can never remember if taking cannabis and cocaine is wrong or compulsory. To cut through the muddle I try to think, 'what would New Labour do?' Though that's not a big help as the most obvious answer to that is 'lie'.

Can I just say at this point, in all seriousness that, despite considering John Prescott one of the most disgusting, useless, hypocritical wastes of space in this country, the news reported yesterday must be terrible for him. It is no reflection on him and it is entirely his business.

Dixon

I will admit I cannot really fathom your real point on this story. Isnt burning down someones livelihood and destroying their livestock worthy of penalising?

I will admit the second instance raises the question of the apropriateness of prison. However, I suppose the judge recognised that the doubtless traumatised farm owners and arson survivors needed certainty that he wouldnt be back yet again. At the end of the day, a dirty mass debate is one thing, it continues on here all the time, mass debating, but arson is one of the most evil crimes there is.

Sir Graphus

It would be interesting to look at the fellow's family tree.

Dixon

Your tee-1-ss-her was an arsonist! That was the crime in question. No doubt killing a poor cow ( not a reference to Mike Leigh ) was a factor also. On the other hand, if you really beg substantiation of the "PC gone mad" theme, look at the continuing attempts by elements in Labour to ban the conduct of genuinely harmless and victimless perversions by consensual fetishists. Particularly the mediation of their activities by the internet.

Whilst for ridiculous prohibitions, I could explain for you the many ludicrous implications of the 2007 VCR Act.

Sir Graphus

Like it, John Ryan. I'm posting this so that you know it wasn't me. I keep my slurry in an old bath in my own shed in my own garden. Rod comes round once a week to borrow it. Always brings the same bloody awful Australian Cabernet Sauvignon as a thankyou.

Augustus

Is this what they mean by organic irrigation?

London Calling

I’ve heard its does wonders for green shoots…what I want to know is it good for your skin also?. Maybe David could enlighten us to his glowing complexion…after he’s finished his business of course…it’s a serious offence, I just hope the police who arrested him kept a straight face, if David had done a runner catching him would have been no laughing matter … :0

teledu

Reminds me of that song (was it from Oklahoma?), "The slurry with the minge on top."

Baron

The man should fire his lawyer. I’m pretty certain the manure wasn't checked & passed by the Health & Safety. It must have left at least a whiff of odor on his skin. A sure case for compensation.

David Ossitt

"A man with a sexual fetish for slurry has been jailed after breaching a restraining order banning him from a farm"

I would bring back capital punishment tomorrow and would be happy to see much longer prison sentences for most crimes, and I think public flogging might be appropriate for certain misdemeanours.

But in the name of all that is holly why is this poor sick man being sent to prison again and again?

He is sick in the head; he needs help not punishment.

Chris

Says the Telegraph: "Speaking in 2005 defence counsel Michael Melville-Shreeve said Truscott was a 'sad, isolated, peculiar man with peculiar habits' who 'definitely needed help'."

Is that to climb in, or out, or - heaven forbid - while he's sat in it, knocking one out?

Rhoda Klapp

Needs help? He's a hardened criminal!

jon ryan

You were only at evens, Sir Graphus.

But my main bet has just been lost, dammit.

Fergus Pickering

I think Rod put this up because he thinks it's funny. There is no political point at all. Is it funny? Yes it is.

Russell Streeter

Slurry fetish? Sounds like Bullshit to me!

daniel maris

Reminds me of that old song -

"Slurry with the m*nge on top."

C Cole

The weird thing about the case is that surely it would have been possible for the guy to satisfy his fetish without breaking the law. A big plastic paddling pool and a delivery of slurry to his home probably would have done the trick. Bit of a bugger to clean up afterwards, but surely preferable to jail?

Fabio P.Barbieri

C. Cole:
Maybe he's got a fetish for being jsiled, too?

Lungfish

The guy should be in a secure mental health unit.

C Cole

@Lungfish

Quite possibly you are right, but by the lights of Mill's harm principle I would have to disagree. In this instance the guy was jailed for breaching a restraining order. His crime against the farmer was harrassment and, presumably, unauthorised use of farm property - which I imagine amounts to a kind of theft. Slice the legal pie whichever way you want, but the guy's perversion isn't in itself a crime. Nor is it in itself evidence of insanity.

Sir Graphus

Rural matters are supposed to be Susan Hill's, hem, turf.

I bet she rang you up and said "you bugger, Rod, I was going to cover that story."

Lungfish

C.Cole- Well lets hope they don't put him to work on the prison farm.

Carl

I'm surprised that nobody has yet said it: Now he is really in the shit.

daniel maris

teledu -

Sorry - just saw you beat me to it!

But without my puritanical asterisk!!

Great minds and all that...