Come on people why are we not discussing the really important news stories? - Boy is Accused of Sausage Assault!

[JudgeJudyAndExecutioner]

sausage assault details here

But where in the article does it says the child has SN?

It doesn't.

No-one's saying it's a let out. And if you think that the police and the criminal justice system are even recognising SN in the way they deal with young people, let alone dealing it as a free get out of jail card, then you obviously know some very unusual police officers and judicial officials.

We don't know the full circumstances of this, the reports don't make clear what his SN is. But SN or not, the fact that we are so bloody incompetent as a society, that we can't deal with minor childhood misdemeanours without involving the full weight of the law, shows that something is seriously wrong with the way we are approaching social order. IMO.

That article doesn't mention it.

I heard a report on the radio earlier on.

I wonder what else is on the list of things that are acceptable to throw at elderly people. I think that fact that it was a sausage is irrelevant really. People should be able to go about their lives without being harrassed.

Inevitably the daily mail is throwing a fit about it calling the incident a Just William prank.
[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=477032&in_page_id=177 0]

In years gone by, the police would probably have simply put the fear of God into the boy and not taken it further. These days their only recourse is to press charges. And it is a shame the incident is being trivialised because with three previous reprimands the boy has form and will probably continue to behave badly.

You may all laugh - but i know this is only the start and is only going to end in tears.

Pretty soon he will progress to pork chops, then ham houghs (vicious bone in the middle - very nasty) and then a full blown descendency into racks of ribs.

There has been a 14% increase in assaults using pork products this year and i think they need to be categorised in classes the same as drugs to take the bone to meat ratio into consideration.

I was assaulted by a square sausage last year so i think pork and beef hybrids need to be monitored as well.

This is the wurst story.

The feckless mother obviously believes all the porkies her precious son tells her.

haha
this reminds me of the headline in a Geneva local newspaper once

"Old woman mocked by youths" or soemthing along those lines

Oh for heavens sake. This boy is 12 (and rather small for his age) has such severe learning difficulties he goes to a special school and is arrested, held in a cell, fingerprinted and hauled into court for throwing a tiny cocktail sausage at a bloke's back.
it is insane.

don't you lot watch gmtv?
they interviewed the mother and son. turns out he is not a bad boy(says mum) he has only had a few cautions
Sounds like the police wee probally fed up with dealing with him.

Funny how so many mothers of these miscreants always insist their children are not bad, just misunderstood/persecuted/easily led.

I wish more would stand up and acknowledge that their offspring have behaved badly, and that SERIOUS consequences will follow.

interesting - more info on this thread than in the papers. Spending 2,000 taking a 12 year old kid to court over a sausage is ridiculous. Far better to spend it on someone giving his mother a few classes in parenting skills. Sounds like the police have got fed up so I'd guess they are getting nowhere with the mother.

What kind of miserable old fecker calls the police because a little boy has thrown a cocktail sausage at him? And what sort of policeman doesn't just laugh and get on with dealing with crime?

I'm glad to read this. I think it's high time sausage crime was taken more seriously.

Tough on sausage crime, tough on the causes of sausage crime.

'Figures out by the met police today have found pork crime across the capital has fallen by seven percent on the same month last year. However, the number of sausage crimes rose by 18% bucking the trend.'

From the BBC website. It's a very worrying trend.

Can imagine this being brought up in PMQs.

"I would like to assure the honourable gentleman that, since we came to power, we have invested an extra £2 million in combatting sausage incidents, and the latest annual figures show a decrease in the rate of sausage-related crime. This is compared to the increase in ALL meat-related crimes when his party was in power!"

A spokesman said, 'We think it is important to crack down on incidents such as these, as cocktail sausages are regarded as 'gateway' sausages. They appear relatively harmless, but soon users may find themselves seeking out ever stronger hits from cumberland rings, black puddings or even entire chorizos."

Just for that, Aloha I shall stalk you around these boards.

personally I think sausages should be legalised. it's ridiculous.

Personally I was deeply disturbed by EricL's post

"I was assaulted by a square sausage last year so i think pork and beef hybrids need to be monitored as well."

Square sausage!!, those things have CORNERS FGS we can't have them falling into the wrong hands!!

God you can tell he is a bad lot just from his choice of missile. A sausage eh? Bet he had just eaten the pastry off what was originally a GREGG'S SAUSAGE ROLL.

Perhaps he can have some kind of treatment to steer him towards more harmless foodstuffs, nice ham for instance.