Especially if it is a £1 coin and you're near a bus....

A 17-year-old arrested for throwing a £1 coin at a bus door is considerably worse off after being fined £335.22.

The teenager, from Loughton, Essex, was charged with causing criminal damage to a bus in Loughton High Road on August 8.

He appeared before magistrates in Chelmsford, and was handed a six-month referral order and the fine - which had to be paid before he left court, Essex police said.

OK, please forgive me, as I'm not from the UK.

Now, let me get this straight... a kid threw a 1 pound coin at a city bus door, and he was not only arrested for it but was fined 335 pounds? What did he do; break the window on the bus door or something? 

I could see throwing a rock, brick or something at the door and getting busted for it, sure. But a coin?

Methinks that the local constabulary could be spending their time handling more serious crimes, like all of the LOOTING!

Matt... I hope everyone they caught gets the maximum penalty, just like the folks who set cars on fire and throw trash cans into storefronts when their fave sports teams win the World Series (or lose it).

Alan

expat wrote on Aug 11^th, 2011 at 12:26pm:

According to the news report the fine had to be paid before he left court. I assume that means he had the wherewithal to pay it.

Every news report I can find on this incident reads exactly the same as Ozzy's quote. What isn't clear is whether the guilty party was on board the bus or outside it when he threw the coin. Also how much damage was caused to the bus door. Typically bad news reporting.

That's nothing... They used to throw rocks and oranges at the windows of our school bus coach    Meanwhile, the big kids were smoking in the back, setting things on fire and getting generally high 


Those were the days 

Never been able to understand rap or what some people find so attractive about some of those images.  Does anyone know how to painlessly erase some images from someon es mind?  Because my way isn't very pretty.

And also, back in Georgia, I remember I had a school bus driver that has actually had model rockets shot at the school bus on the last day of school.  Thank goodness it didn't happen on the year I was on that bus.

expat wrote on Aug 12^th, 2011 at 10:37am:

Well atleast they caught the person.

Club508 wrote on Aug 12^th, 2011 at 10:30am:


Don't reeally find it interesting. Cant even hear what they say. even if i could I wouldn't understand . I was just looking on the Internet for the history of rain dancers and that came up. I like classic music.