Teen wrecks an Audi, Parent stops pocket money

L.Jenkins

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/teen-who-crashed-fathers-100k-car-into-neighbours-house-has-had-his-pocket-money-stopped-31367392.html

Spotted the above in my timeline. If I were their parent, I'd be fúcking livid! I'd let them have there pocket money until they could afford to have my foot removed from their hole.

anncoates

Plus a criminal record.

FluffyAngel

Not sure advocating violence against a teen/young adult is in the mods handbook..

Not to mention the fact that we live in a society of judgment and good "reporting "

duffman13

FluffyAngel wrote: »

Not sure advocating violence against a teen/young adult is in the mods handbook..

Not to mention the fact that we live in a society of judgment and good "reporting "

Welcome to AH

Buzz Meeks

Very ferris bueller.

Nib

FluffyAngel wrote: »

Not sure advocating violence against a teen/young adult is in the mods handbook..

I'd say you're great craic on a night out.

Guy:Incognito

The neighbours look reasonably pleased about the whole affair.

L.Jenkins

FluffyAngel wrote: »

Not sure advocating violence against a teen/young adult is in the mods handbook..

Not to mention the fact that we live in a society of judgment and good "reporting "

Would you pat any relative on the back for crashing your car, let alone a €100k car into your neighbours horse?

Bongalongherb

As they say... Rich Mammy & Dada will look after me. At least I have my €25,000 back-up car handy to take me to university, and it's self-driving. If I crash that one as well, then mamma and dada will pay for Everything, and I will only see a deduction of €5,000 of my pocket money a week.

foggy_lad

If I was his parent He'd be showing up in court in more plaster than the house he hit will need for repairs!

The court heard the teenager had also been punished at home, having had his pocket money stopped, and been banned from a holiday abroad with friends.

Obnoxious pr1ck should have been banned from driving for 25 years and ordered to do 1000 hours unpaid work in a place that looks after those with serious life changing injuries from road crashes.

Bongalongherb

He told Bishop he could have "no complaint" if he was jailed today, but had to balance the young man's good character, and his potential value to working society once qualified in IT

His value is sh!t to society with that carry on. 10 years banned from driving and 6 months community work, that should suffice.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Delighted for him! Taking some young one home from the town and bringing her for a spin in his dad's 100k Audi, hoping to give her a ride, and get a ride.

Any young one's coming home with me when I was 18 could consider themselves fortunate to be fingered by me in the back of my ford fiesta.

FluffyAngel

Itzy wrote: »

Would you pat any relative on the back for crashing your car, let alone a €100k car into your neighbours horse?

What has my neigh bours horse got to do with it ?

Samaris

Eh, it sounds to me like his father behaved appropriately in dealing with the young idiot. As long as they deal with the damage done to the neighbours' house, and I suppose you could say that his allowance is going towards that in that case, punishing him is now down to the law and his father.

The law dealt pretty appropriately with him really - 200 hours unpaid work, a three-month curfew, and banned from the road for two and a half years. What would be the point of sending him to prison, bar to appease the general righteous outrage on the internet? He was a bloody tool, not a malicious scumbag. It sounds like he's very well aware of how much trouble he's caused and is thoroughly ashamed of himself.

SpaceSasqwatch

I'd waterboard the little sh1te if he wrote off my audi rs8.

Had to laugh at his fathers punishment- no pocket money and has to do chores around the house.

dandyelevan

There was a cattle rustler (may have been sheep) caught red-handed in these 'ere parts a few years ago.
A enterprising young lad hired an innocent truck & driver to 'move' some livestock from a farm in the wee hours of the morning.
What he didn't tell the driver was that said livestock were not his.
Anyhoo...the local posse caught up the pair en route to the sales-yard and the young was rustler arrested.

In Court (much later on in the year) the youths Mamma took the stand in defence of her offspring.
'He's not a bad laddie, she stated, and if yer Honor sees fit to release him to my custody, I'll see he's properly punished.'

The Judge mulled her proposal over for a nano-second.
'What punishment would you inflict on the young lad,' he asked?

'Why, said Mamma, I'd stop his pocket money for three months!'

SEPT 23 1989

boys will be boys

Boring username

SpaceSasqwatch wrote: »

I'd waterboard the little sh1te if he wrote off my audi rs8.

Had to laugh at his fathers punishment- no pocket money and has to do chores around the house.

It's this kind of bleeding heart leftie crap that encourages kids you know

Lisha

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He told Bishop he could have "no complaint" if he was jailed today, but had to balance the young man's good character, and his potential value to working society once qualified in IT


I really want to know what you'd have to do to lose one's 'good charachter' in the eyes of a judge?

Samaris

Lisha wrote: »

Quote:
I really want to know what you'd have to do to lose one's 'good charachter' in the eyes of a judge?

Second or more offence is the most obvious.

Malicious offence, such as rape, assault, mugging.

This was a dumb kid being a dumb kid and causing a lot of trouble for everyone around him. But it wasn't -malicious-. Just really bloody stupid. And he's very fortunate that no-one was injured. He'll get over this once it's all paid off and he's served his time, and it will have taught him a hell of a lesson. But if he had injured or killed someone, well, that's not something you get over, I reckon.

Bongalongherb

Samaris wrote: »

Eh, it sounds to me like his father behaved appropriately in dealing with the young idiot. As long as they deal with the damage done to the neighbours' house, and I suppose you could say that his allowance is going towards that in that case, punishing him is now down to the law and his father.

The law dealt pretty appropriately with him really - 200 hours unpaid work, a three-month curfew, and banned from the road for two and a half years. What would be the point of sending him to prison, bar to appease the general righteous outrage on the internet? He was a bloody tool, not a malicious scumbag. It sounds like he's very well aware of how much trouble he's caused and is thoroughly ashamed of himself.

Not a malicious scumbag ?. Well imagine the old folks putting milk out for the cat and then this scumbag reverses into them killing them possibly.

Lisha

Samaris wrote: »

Second or more offence is the most obvious.

Malicious offence, such as rape, assault, mugging.

This was a dumb kid being a dumb kid and causing a lot of trouble for everyone around him. But it wasn't -malicious-. Just really bloody stupid. And he's very fortunate that no-one was injured. He'll get over this once it's all paid off and he's served his time, and it will have taught him a hell of a lesson. But if he had injured or killed someone, well, that's not something you get over, I reckon.

He stole a car while drunk. He drove the car while drunk. Bloody stupid by most standards.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Lisha wrote: »

Quote:
He told Bishop he could have "no complaint" if he was jailed today, but had to balance the young man's good character, and his potential value to working society once qualified in IT


I really want to know what you'd have to do to lose one's 'good charachter' in the eyes of a judge?

It was a once off stupid thing the boy did while under the influence. He's not some sort of lowlife criminal who's been up before the beak on countless occasions.

Bongalongherb

A Singapore chow mein please but no prawns/shrimps or crustaceans please.


That's what happens when you have two tabs open, sorry, wrong site.,

Underground

Pocket money? He's 19! Ridiculous.

Samaris

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Not a malicious scumbag ?. Well imagine the old folks putting milk out for the cat and then this scumbag reverses into them killing them possibly.

Lisha wrote: »

He stole a car while drunk. He drove the car while drunk. Bloody stupid by most standards.

Absolutely agree with both, and I've commented such. He and everyone involved are incredibly fortunate that he didn't actually injure -or worse- anyone with his daft carry-on.

However, Bongalongherb, I stand by what I said. He was -not- malicious in his stupidity. Scumbag, we can leave aside, since that's not a word with a strict meaning as the other is. Malicious is referring to intending to cause harm, annoyance or fear in others.

Mind you, I can grant that he was drink-driving and even drunk, anyone should know better than that in this day and age. It's not like it's not drilled into us over and over. And if he had killed someone while drink-driving, I probably would not be sympathetic. Call that hypocritical if you like; maybe it is, but I think the sentence was appropriate.

Edit: The pocket money was a top-up allowance on his very restricted IT apprenticeship pay.

Neyite

Underground wrote: »

Pocket money? He's 19! Ridiculous.

I know! Waaay OTT expecting a 19 year old to dry a few dishes and take away his pocket money. But I'm sure letting him keep the credit card softened the blow.

Bongalongherb

But having huge amounts of cash and a good job always goes towards the conditioning of judges that the person is of sound and absolute quality of a human being... Even if he happened to kill some poor unfortunate person within this scenario. He's a good lad, his papa has loads of cash and might be able to cause us problems. We'll go easy on this excellent character of society. What a beautiful human being...

Fcuking nutballs is what they are.

Son Of A Vidic

The Cunning Linguist wrote: »

Delighted for him! Taking some young one home from the town and bringing her for a spin in his dad's 100k Audi, hoping to give her a ride, and get a ride.

Any young one's coming home with me when I was 18 could consider themselves fortunate to be fingered by me in the back of my ford fiesta.

Try doing that on a mountain bike. Well for some to have their own car at 18.

Xaracatz

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It was a once off stupid thing the boy did while under the influence. He's not some sort of lowlife criminal who's been up before the beak on countless occasions.

Like setting someone's Halloween costume alight while under the influence?