Psamathe
Getting on for 50 years ago, I was doing what we used to call "White Gloves" at Leeds Sessions ie security duty. In one sense, a total under-employment of any expensively-trained crime fighter such as YOS.
In another sense, a bit of valuable in-service training. The Judge was the (in)famous James Pickles and the defendant in a child grooming case, long before paedophiles became folk devils had been writing crude invitations to a child. IIRC, the defendant had worked in some sort of care home run by one of the churches. Anyway, defence counsel had hardly started his mitigation about the defendant's work for the church when Pickles boomed "Mr XX, your client is a hypocrite and will go to prison for two years. He should consider himself lucky that that is the maximum sentence I have the power to impose. Take him down." A few weeks later I heard on the news that the sentence had been reduced on appeal. The relevance of this memory to this thread? Nothing except to show how times have changed.
BTW, some of the repeated references to points which have already been discussed had me looking back through the main Charlie Alliston thread. Memory not so good these days as it used to be and I was a bit surprised that I referred to this being "an accident waiting to happen" on 18 August, just a month before the judge quoted me. Hardly surprising then that I gave her good marks for what she said.
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I would hope that the message coming from the Judge's mouth is that shouting is not an adequate or acceptable method of avoiding a collision. Rather like blasting your horn at the pedestrians as you drive towards them.
You are actually expected to take much more evasive action than that.
And as I've posted somewhere, shouting and swearing is a bit like an approaching driver playing and repeating a couple of bars from
Colonel Bogey on an air horn.