Ooh it makes my blood boil.
Manchester yet again I notice. Two lawless scumbags enter a home without the permission/knowledge of the owner with a view to picking up a few choice items for ‘recycling’. According to the news this morning they were both carrying knives.
Naturally the owner took issue with their choice of boutique and remonstrated to such a degree that one of the sub human, oxygen thieves received a knife wound which proved fatal. To quote the Sgt Major (It Ain’t ‘Alf Hot Mum), “Oh dear, what a shame, never mind!”.
The homeowner is now bailed before a hearing in mid October and faces possible charges of murder. Hopefully a similar verdict will be given to the recent cases and he will be cleared of any wrongdoing. Personally I think he should be awarded the keys to the city, a big, bugger off medal and an open top bus tour in his honour. That isn’t what is gripping my exhaust.
I see with complete and utter disgust that certain aerosols have placed flowers outside the house in tribute to the dead burglar. One of them carries the words “Love you Son”. At the very least these people should be charged with littering, what a total insult to the victims of this crime? I am sure the homeowner has been heavily traumatised by the event, and I’ll bet his wife and son aren’t sleeping too well either. Do they get the support they deserve as victims of a violent crime? Hell no they have to suffer the insult of becoming a shrine to the nasty little piece of dirt who tried to rob them at knifepoint.
I assume there is a police presence, what with it being a ‘murder scene’ and the obvious peril the family are in. As soon as the plod saw the relatives/concerned placing tributes he/she should have slapped the cuffs on there and then.
Well Mr Cambuffoon and your barely housetrained chimp, you want broken society? Here it is and it is a fracture of your and all the other PC morons’ design.
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Well said, Furry-ears. 🙂
But, surely Wavy Davy said it is alright to stab burglars now, or was he telling yet another porkie?
Thanks that Bear. 🙂
FEEG,
I think you still have to prove you didn’t invite them in and lay in wait Ninja stylee on top of the Ikea bookcase.
Thats not the point, I am sure he will be found ‘not guilty’ since they brought the knives to the party as it were.
My issue is with the floral tributes at the home of the real victims.
Furry, yes I realise that too. Maybe he should have just picked up the floral “tributes” and thrown them straight in the bin (the recycling one, of course in this PC day and age!)
Yup FEEG,
But not before wiping my arse with ’em first.
This strikes me as odd, it wasn’t there before.
“A gold Maserati sports car and a silver Range Rover, with personalised registration plates, and a large white Transit van were parked on the driveway of the house.”
Are they perhaps suggesting that by parking such high value vehicles on his own drive, Mr Cooke was asking to be robbed at knifepoint?
I don’t know what to say; it does seem a bit ridiculous really; whether it is Shameless or Shakespearean tragedy, one would be hard pushed to say. But, at the risk of sounding hackneyed, it is very tragic for all concerned.
I would certainly have put the floral tributes in the bin. His mum said the deceased was “a lovely boy”! This despite the fact he was stabbed with his own knife which he taken along to commit a crime.
I’m sure his mother did say “he was a lovely boy” – he probably gave her lots of other people’s propety… 🙂
Howzit Ferret
I thought of you when I heard this on the news last night, agree about the flowers, I read elsewhere that Mr Cooke has 2 Labradors, perhaps he should take them for a walk past the posies, I would!
Littering is an offence, isn’t it?
Otherwise, what Ferret said.
One has to give the BBC credit for not stating in the headline that the Vincent Cooke was a father or dad as seems to be the case in some other articles, the Daily Telegraph included. Why the fact that he is a father is relevant to the incident, is beyond my comprehension. The Daily Mail calls him a ‘Wealthy man’. I prefer the BBC’s wording. See here for more headlines.
http://news.google.co.uk/news/story?hl=en&q=Raymond+Jacob&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=d2rRqdGACnGpMqM3EROHnhtYXGLRM&ei=N0R3TtmyOOXZmAXkwZ3qDA&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=4&ved=0CD8QqgIwAw
I don’t have a problem with the media telling us that he is a father.
In fact in my opinion it reinforces his position. He was expecting his child and wife (yes he has one of those as well!) home at any moment.
He also has a job!
I think that these facts are important to the public, allowing us to form an opinion of Mr. Cooke.
Now, what do they tell us about the two ‘scumbags’ other than that the one’s mother loved him!
Hi Soutie, that’s a fair point, but I confess I was not reading it that way. I read it as an indictment. In other words, ‘as a father, he should have known better’. Other headlines called him ‘a director’, ‘a businessman’, ‘a wealthy man’. I am so used to the media expressing sympathy for the criminal that I automatically read this in the same light. Perhaps I have become too cynical for my own good.
Howzit sipu, perhaps 🙂
Sorry man, I misunderstood your point.
I must confess that this does make a change from reading about gay unemployed benefit scroungers 😉
Furry: that sounds just like San Francisco. It makes me nostalgic for life in Amador County, where air-thieves often find themselves with broken legs, arms, and thrown into old mine shafts for the next few decades. It also makes a place like North Dakota, where air-thieves are shot and buried, with the help of the police, in open fields never to be heard about again.
Perhaps what we need to do is scrap the Neighbourhood Watches and for Committees of Vigilance…
Lets suppose the knife bearing intruders had been savaged inside the house by the owners ‘well-trained’ two dogs. (Assuming there were such animals in the house.) .Savaged so severely that the intruders had suffered their faces being being bitten off. What would the law say then? Seems to me the the police force are playing Pontius Pilate here leaving Courts or juries to make decisions. This is wrong and is clearly victimising the victim .
When someone crosses your threshold with the intent of criminal action (and especially carrying weapons) then the owner or tenant of the house should be able to act without any fear of prosecution. End of. Suppose in the ensuing fight, the owner had been killed in circumstances where he/she had been trying to act in proportiionate action viz simply blocking a thrust of a knife … .. In effect, the owner, in trying to fight with care for his assailant, would in fact have invited the assailant to overpower himself and possibly get killed in the bargain. Would then his wife be charged for negligence as her husband had failed to defend himself adequately.
It is utter bollox. Yes Ferret I am with you!
Agree ferret, I thought the flowers were the last straw too.
You would have thought the council would have removed them forthwith and the police would stop any further being placed there.
Scum got what he deserved, pity about the rest of them still breathing!
As Chris says, wouldn’t happen here, you are even allowed to shoot burglars on your neighbours property if you just happen to see them.
However, I must say I think the guy is a fool parking such expensive cars visible from the street, an open invitation to rob in such a depraved and amoral place as urban Manchester!
I have no idea where this absurd concept of criminal rights crept into our legal system, but it should be knocked on the head soonest.
I cannot see why we owe any duty of care to those who trespass, threaten or steal, or otherwise hamper law abiding citizens in any way whatsoever.
What about his human rights to go where he wants and rob who he wants, he had a right to break into that persons house and steal things, it is unfair of the guy who owned the house to stop this poor honest thieve from robbing him and harming his family.
Better yet they should remove the thieves head and impale it on a spike at the gateway to show what happens to people like him and be a warning to others.
Well said Ferret.