Thursday
Apr102014
Jail sentence for flicking fag end at neighbour
Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 8:24 A man has been given a suspended jail sentence for flicking a cigarette butt at a neighbour's head.
According to the Cork Evening Echo, Anthony Lacey was also fined €300 for threatening to wreck the neighbour's car.
I don't condone Lacey's behaviour – he sounds like a lout – but a four month jail sentence (suspended or otherwise) for flicking a fag end at someone?!
It's hardly GBH, is it?
On the other hand, if someone scratched my car I'd want to string them up.
Threatening to do so is just as bad.
A €300 fine? He got off lightly!
Reader Comments (4)
The offence sounds more to do with criminal damage and using violent and threatening behaviour and probably, these days, common assault if the fag end so much as touched a hair on the hallowed victim's head.
In Ireland, it suits the vile abusive smokerphobics to make it all about the fag end. And it helps to cement us as criminal thugs too.
All going according to plan for the antis
I just posted this over at Frank's place:
I just happened upon this little nugget:
"FG okays 6 months imprisonment for smoking in public"
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=59327
Come to sunny Nigeria - but leave your ciggies at home if you want to make your flight back. Bloody hell...
Oh yes, Nigeria - that land of progression in politics and tolerance. Not.
Isn't Nigeria also where they murder and beat to death gay people?
I'll bet tobacco control holds up the country as model the rest of the world should follow given the antis' regressive stance on life, health, law, and social cohesion.
They're dragging us socially backwards to the 1930s which is where they want to be. The decent people of this country, however, have no choice but to be dragged down there with them.
Good job he didn't throw a box of 20 , he would have got six years.