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Fuck you in the arse and the eye
Welsh teacher Paul Davies drove like an idiot in May 2006. This isn’t especially surprising – if you’re a driver and claim you’ve never driven like an idiot, then you’re an arrogant liar.
Unlike most people who drive like idiots, Mr Davies was unlucky: he span out of control and hit another car, driven by a man named Kelvin Palmer. Mr Palmer was unluckier still, breaking assorted bits of himself in the crash and having to spend several months in hospital.
The police and CPS were initially reluctant to bring charges, on the basis that there wasn’t much evidence that Mr Davies had done anything terribly appalling [side note on press competence: the crash has universally been reported as a ‘120mph’ crash. The testimony in court from experienced drivers was that Mr Davies was driving at 80-90mph – a 22-year-old nurse was the only witness to suggest the 120mph figure].
Mr Palmer doggedly pursued them until they did. Which is sort-of fair enough: the guy did drive like a twat, and did fuck Mr Palmer over royally. And it’s just about possible that enough prosecutions of people who drive like twats and are unlucky to have a serious accident will deter people from driving like twats generally (albeit incredibily unlikely, given the evidence across the criminal justice realm that draconian punishment has next to no effect unless people perceive a serious chance of getting caught). Eventually, Mr Davies was convicted and sent to prison.
However, that’s not the end of the story. Mr Davies is a good teacher – so good that the parents at his school have lobbied the governors of his school to not sack him. And indeed, the governors have decided to keep his job open until his release in the autumn.
Some people, me included, might be glad to see a good man who’s making a valuable contribution to society not having his life totally ruined for a moment of mild idiocy crossed with bad luck. Mr Palmer, however, is lobbying to get Mr Davies sacked. I think that’s the point where ‘quest for justice’ becomes ‘being an utter cunt’.
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July 16th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
“Father-of-two Mr Palmer, 49, spent 10 months in hospital and now needs a wheelchair. He lives in a care home away from his family.”
Davies has to work somewhere, and if he’s a good teacher I suppose he should do that. But surely he should be demoted, and also the prison sentence seems terribly lenient.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:13 am
DON’T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY FATHER LIKE THAT! YOUR LACK OF DIGNIFIED VOCABULARY IS A CLEAR INDICATION OF YOUR PERSONA. IF YOUR THE KIND OF LOUT WHO SUPPORTS IDIOTIC PEOPLE LIKE DAVIES THEN THIS SPEAKS VOLUMES FOR HIS DESPERATE DEFENCE… QUITE TRAGIC REALLY! HE HASN’T GOT A LEG TO STAND ON!! WHO’S GOING TO LISTEN TO YOU?! REFERRING TO MY FATHER AS AN ‘UTTER CUNT’ IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE AND YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU MOUTHY CHAV! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MY FAMILY HAS BEEN THROUGH AND I’D LOVE TO SEE YOUR REACTION IF SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAD HAPPENED TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. IT WOULD BE THE TOTAL OPPOSITE, I CAN ASSURE YOU! DO YOU HONESTLY THINK MANY PEOPLE VALUE YOUR OPINION?
YOU’RE ONE VERY TWISTED AND WARPED PERSON IF YOU THINK YOU CAN TURN THIS WHOLE THING, CAUSED BY AN OLD MAN WHO’S A WANNABE BOY RACER DRIVING LIKE A LUNATIC AND BLAME IT ON THE INNOCENT VICTIM. THIS PATHETIC EXCUSE OF A MAN HAS NOT EVEN BOTHERED TO APOLOGISE AND HE DESERVES EVERYTHING HE GETS AND IN MY OPINION I HOPE HE ROTS IN HELL. THIS WHOLE THING IS MORE THAN JUST A DRIVING CONVICTION… IN OTHER DEBATES ONLY ONE PERSON HAS DEFENDED HIM AND THIS SPEAKS VOLUMES… YOUR OPINION IS IN THE SIGNIFCANT MINORITY! THERE IS MORE TO THIS CASE THAN MEETS THE EYE AND YOU ARE IGNORANT OF THIS.
WOULD YOU REALLY WANT YOU’RE KIDS BEING TAUGHT BY SOMEONE WHO’S BEEN BANGED UP?? ANY SANE PESON WITH AN OUNCE OF DECENCY WOULD REALISE THIS IS NO KIND OF EXAMPLE TO SET TO IMPRESSIONABLE YOUNG PEOPLE!
August 29th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
[...] It’s also noticeable that once again, some daft sod has made up a ‘100mph’ reference because the cars were going quite fast and he wants it to sound impressive – and despite the fact that there is no evidence that anyone was driving above 55, that’s become the press tagline for the story. But never mind that – SPEED KILLS, not driving like a daft old cunt, and we’ve got to make an example of people who dare have fun, especially if they do so in an EVIL fast car. [...]