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!