Former showjumper Christopher Robertson jailed for injuring cyclist

What class do you feel you belong to Mike? Are you a twat?

don't actually want to harm him and would never have the nerve to punch a person but that surly look, combined with the above-mentioned details, makes for an irksome punchbag of a gulliver. He has a face like a bag of willies.

what do you mean by using this word, in this context?

Almost 3 years doesn't strike me as especially lax.
I dunno.

33 months, of which he will serve a maximum 15 for leaving someone for dead at the side of the road after assaulting them with a two ton weapon.

Not much?

What class do you feel you belong to Mike? Are you a twat?

I am a middle class twat

what do you mean by using this word, in this context?

Gulliver meaning head, Clockwork Orange style.

I am a middle class twat

Ha, me too.

No, it really isn't/wasn't.

He's saying crime and violence are more likely to be commited by those who are less well off, and have lower IQs, which is generally true. The fact that the horse jumper is well off is like an anomaly to this correlation.

33 months, of which he will serve a maximum 15 for leaving someone for dead at the side of the road after assaulting them with a two ton weapon.

Not much?

Sentences for assault with a car are generally low, so that it's a moderately good thing that he got something at all--people often walk free from charges of dangerous or careless driving or have to pay a derisory fine. Check for full info on the RoadPeace site:

http://www.roadpeace.org/

Class has nothing to do with it.

Class may not have anything to do with this example, but overall, it does. I think that was barbers point.

He's saying crime and violence are more likely to be commited by those who are less well off, and have lower IQs, which is generally true. The fact that the horse jumper is well off is like an anomaly to this correlation.

Yes, that was what I came to understand, but his first statement seemed to say that wealth and crime/violence are directing proportional, when it actual fact the relationship is inverse, hence confusion.

I don't think any amount of time in prison will help that badly organised pile of organic matter.

He'll never change so all you can do is hope he doesn't hurt anyone else before a horse decides to kick him in the head.

The correlation of crime and social class depends entirely on how one defines "crime" and "social class". It is possible to make any correlation appear. For that reason, it's meaningless.

Social Class doesn't mean much. You're an arse either way, just if you're upper class arse you can hurt a lot more people and get away with it.

Almost 3 years doesn't strike me as especially lax.
I dunno.

It seems lax to me. He says he intended 'to clip the cyclist and run him into a ditch'. What's more likely, given the injuries to the cyclist, is he intentionally ran into the cyclist with a lot of force, intending at the least very serious harm. And what about his omission to help a man who was practically dying on the road? The prosecution obviously went for a safer option from the various offences against the person.

Is it "let's trot out trite, meaningless generalisations day" today and no-one told me??

EDIT: not aimed at James1822

You can define social class in many ways. Where you live, what council tax band you are in, income, IQ, etc. The more your income, the less likely you are to commit crime. The lower your IQ, the higher your predisposition for criminal behaviour. You can quantitise these things, they aren't meaningless.

Sorry, I didn't mean to run this thread off on a tangent.

Please stop.

ok

Gary Glitter rides a horse.

A fund raising event for the elderly injured cyclist: google provides some good venues in the vicinity

There's some inbreeding..

Anyone else feel like punching Joe Cole 1st thing in the morning based on this^^?

Being extremely posh myself i would not class this oik as being worthy of the port outward starboard home classification.

He reeks of being MPS (Thats a Minor Public School in Sloane Speak), who quite frankly are the worst kind of middleclass upstarts, who when given a sniff of a priviledged upbringing do their best to lord it over anyone who has the misfortune to come onto their radar, whilst still having a massive chip that mater and pater actually had to work very hard to get them into that position in the first place.

A proper posh cunt will always face up to what he has done, duty and honor and all that what what

Anyway hes clearly a twat and deserves whatever is coming at him - seems a ludicrously short sentance for what was a pr meditated act. The press like to use social class to label people, as it adds a sensational edge to events they are reporting.

The bottom line is that any class of person can be a mental case in a car and they all should be treated the same if they go after a cyclist - attempted manslaughter - the Doctor in california who ran over a group of riders is being sent away.http://velonews.com/article/99813/road-rage-verdict-victims-speak