Shooting at Mandalay Bay Resort (Las Vegas)

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Watched a police show a couple of weeks ago
A known burglar who had many convictions was caught ( arrested at his home )
He got a £400 fine and that was all

What had he burgled?

 

[bluemc1]

What had he burgled?

Somebody house, he was a drug addict who was well known to police but had been off the radar a few years but he'd turned back to drugs and started again,

 

[Hoghead]

Somebody house, he was a drug addict who was well known to police but had been off the radar a few years but he'd turned back to drugs and started again,

....and I wonder how he will pay his fine.

 

[bluemc1]

....and I wonder how he will pay his fine.

I had a right good rant about it at the time
He burgles 20 houses and gets caught once and just has to pay £400 why would he ever stop ?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I didn't insult you at all. To act like you weren't bring difficult with your first statement to me is disingenuous. I was not though trying to be ultra virtuous but a real discussion not bomh throwing was taking place.

To be frank your writing was long and without paragraph breaks hard to read. You aren't aware of how most States regulate (or not) gun sales. I don't need a reason, such as home defence, to state when purchasing a gun. One shows up, fills out the background check paperwork. If you pass, you pay and walk away with it.

Let's not waste each other's time. You want to be involved. Great. Be involved with the others.

Hmm, first the tone excuse for avoiding addressing an argument, now paragraphing. Your attempts to avoid the point while still coming out sounding like you have a reasonable excuse for doing so are so transparent. Why not just say if you can't back up your views? You've responded to me three times now, and in none of those responses have you been able to mount a defence for gun ownership as a way of defending one's home. And you did insult me. Unless you're now going to try and be disingenuous and say that "being a jerk" isn't an attempt to insult people.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Somebody house, he was a drug addict who was well known to police but had been off the radar a few years but he'd turned back to drugs and started again,

If he'd committed two previous dwelling house burglaries after 2000, then the minimum sentence (subject to a one third adjustment for an early guilty plea) is three years imprisonment, unless it is unjust to do so (very rarely applied). A fine simply does not add up, to me at least. A lesser (or suspended) sentence might in certain, limited circumstances be imposed, but not a fine. Fining a smack-head is a complete waste of time.

 

[Magicpole]

I had a right good rant about it at the time
He burgles 20 houses and gets caught once and just has to pay £400 why would he ever stop ?

When I was s lad a family moved into the area and shortly after that house breaking began. I come from a great but tough neighbourhood, good people, but, when one of them was caught and fled a house the response of the area was swift and brutal.

These crimes against people in the area were not tolerated.

The family moved after two of them left hospital. The cops, when they found out what they were doing, were let's say, less than vigorous in trying to find out who set about them.

Fines? Fuck that.

 

[BobKowalski]

Can't answer that, different societies an all but I could ask why there was, maybe still is an epidemic of glassing people in the face when I lived over there. There were literally tens of people with half moon shaped scars around their faces and it was a very regular event...you called my pint a poof kinda stuff.
Not trying to defend the gun owners, just curious about it as I've never heard of such a thing over here

Can't say I was aware of 'an epidemic' of glassing people and to be brutally honest someone stocking his hotel room with pint glasses and lobbing them out of the window at people below is not exactly comparable is it?

I get its a different culture but I struggle to understand why Americans tolerate this madness. Given after Sandy Hook where children were gunned down I accept that the US will do nothing about the problem (and indeed in some quarters seek to excuse it) I just found the statistic I quoted of 3% of American adults accounting for 50% of the guns in the US utterly bizarre.

Anyway I am ducking out of this one. If Americans are willing to tolerate the problem of mass shootings or shootings in general then that is their choice to make.

 

[Machiavelli]

On a phone, so can't check if anyone has posted this, but my wife just pointed out the lyrics from the Robbie Williams song, "Me and My Monkey":

Lyrics

It was me and my monkey
Him with his dungarees and roller blades
Smoking filter tips reclining in the passenger seat of my supercharged jet black Chevrolet
He had the soft top down
He liked the wind in his face
He said "Son, you ever been to Vegas?'
I said "No" he said "That's where we're gonna go, you need a change of place"
And when we hit the strip with all the wedding chapels and the neon signs he said
"I left my wallet in El Segundo" and proceeded to take two grand of mine
We made tracks to the Mandalay Bay hotel
Asked the bell boy if he'd take me and my monkey as well
He looked in the passenger seat of my car and with a smile he said
"If your monkey's got that kind of money sir, and we've got a monkey bed"

Me and monkey
With a dream and a gun
Hoping my monkey
Don't point that gun at anyone
Me and monkey
Like Butch and the Sundance Kid
Trying to understand
Why he did what he did
Why he did what he did

And at the elevator I hit the 33rd floor
He had a room up top with a panoramic view it's like nothing you've ever seen before
He went to sleep in the bidet and when he awoke
He ran his little monkey fingers through the yellow pages
Called up escort services and ordered some oki doke
Forty minutes later there came a knock at the door
In walked this big, bad-ass baboon into my bedroom with 3 monkey whores
"Hi, my name is Sunshine.
These are my girls.
Lace my palm with silver baby oh yeah and they'll rock your world"
So I watched pay per view and polished my shoes and my gun
Was sticking on Kurt Cobain sing about lithium
There came and knocked at the door and in walked Sunshine
"What's up?"
"You better get your ass in here boy your monkey is having too much of a good time"

Me and my monkey
Drove in search of the sun
Me and my monkey
Don't point that gun at anyone
Me and my monkey
Like Billy the Kid
Trying to understand
Why he did what he did
Why he did what he did

Got tickets to see Sheena Easton
The monkey was high
Said it was a burning ambition to see her before he died
We left before encores
He couldn't sit still
Sheena was a blast baby
But my monkey was ill
When I played black jack
Kept hittin' 23
Couldn't help but notice this Mexican just staring at me
Or was it my monkey
I couldn't be sure
It's not like you've never seen a monkey in rollerblades and dungarees before
Now don't test my patience cause we're not about to run
That's a bad-ass monkey boy and he's packing a gun
"My name is Rodriguez" he says with death in his eye
"I've been chasing you for a long time amigos
And now your monkey is gonna die"

Me and my monkey
Drove in search of the sun
Me and my monkey
We don't want to kill no Mexican
But we got ten itchy fingers
One thing to declare
When the monkey is high
You do not stare
You do not stare
You do not stare

Looks like we got ourselves a Mexican stand off here boy
And I ain't about to run
Put your gun down boy
How did I get mixed up with this fucking monkey anyhow

My Mrs showed me this last night and the lyrics to Nellie the elephant which has similar lines.
The RW song was taken from his album Escapology, which was his first album released after he signed his whopping £80m deal with EMI. The album was written and recorded in LA.

 

[idahoblues]

Can't say I was aware of 'an epidemic' of glassing people and to be brutally honest someone stocking his hotel room with pint glasses and lobbing them out of the window at people below is not exactly comparable is it?

I get its a different culture but I struggle to understand why Americans tolerate this madness. Given after Sandy Hook where children were gunned down I accept that the US will do nothing about the problem (and indeed in some quarters seek to excuse it) I just found the statistic I quoted of 3% of American adults accounting for 50% of the guns in the US utterly bizarre.

Anyway I am ducking out of this one. If Americans are willing to tolerate the problem of mass shootings or shootings in general then that is their choice to make.

https://loweringthebar.net/2009/09/british-government-considers-mandating-plastic-pints.html