Damn its taken them long enough.

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Originally Posted by Garp

I'm blaming the justice system for publicly letting him get away with the illegal acts without consequences, due to his celebrity status. He walks out of one hearing for breaking terms of his parol relating to drugs taking, gets arrested and cautioned less than 30 minutes later in possession of drugs, again. Still nothing done. Admits publicly to driving under the influence of drugs, and still gets next to nothing by way of punishment. If it had been joe public doing half the stuff he's done and admitted to doing, they would have been behind bars faster than you could blink, but instead its taken this long. All the whilst that says clearly "You can do drugs, we'll arrest you, but hey, we let you go again with no hassles"

In my home town, it's not uncommon for junkies to appear in court half a dozen times for drugs related offences before finally being given a custodial sentence. I realise different areas have different ways of dealing with these issues but I don't think the argument that his celebrity status affords him some sort of semi-immunity from doing time really holds much water.

I fully agree that the guy's behaviour is out of order and he needs sorting out (along with all the other addicts who's behaviour causes inconvenience or poses a risk to others) but I'm not sure (as Malc says) that prison is the best place to do that. I don't have the answer to the rehabilitation of addicts but there has to be a better way to deal with them than sending them to general prisons.

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Originally Posted by Flibster

Who?

I'm glad you don't know who he is.

I wish I didn't!

Yeah Malc you're probably right.

DAMMIT!

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