On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:25:34 -0800, rigger wrote:

Because someone has a weapon in their poccession is not, per se, a crime
in this country and you're an idiot for bringing this up. Have you
nothing better to do?

I see the sense of humour by-pass was 100% effective.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then why get up in the morning?

Oh, and FWIW, most of the UK had a good laugh about the so-called knife
crime stats when da guv crowed that their latest crime fighting scheme had
reduced knife crime, just to be castigated by the people who created the
stats for pre-announcing them out of context. A month later, when the
*real* report came out, it showed da gov up for the ****s they are by
proving the exact opposite.

You see, "we" can laugh at ourselves. It's just such a shame that you
don't "get" humour when you see it. I'm assembling a "care package" for
the disadvantaged as I type consisting of betamax tapes of Monty Python,
Fawlty Towers, Dads Army, Red Dwarf and the proper version of The
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Feel free to take advantage of it and
give copies to all your similarly afflicted friends.

pops on a Bowler hat, picks up 'brolly and heads of to his job as
"something in the City"

--
My idea of an agreeable person
is a person who agrees with me.
- Benjamin Disraeli(1804 - 1881)