Current mood: PREVAILING....
Category: PREVAILING.... Life
Jesus...
I got a letter from Wimbledon Magistrates court today advising me that I had to pay £190 in fines and costs for jumping the Number 25 bus psv REG 7(2)(b)(ii) a coupla months back.
Yes boss, the letter told me this fine had to be paid by yesterday OR ELSE!!!
Thing was, I was suppposed to have gone to court a coupla weeks ago to make my defence, but I couldn't be arsed, even though I felt I had an excellent and elaborate one, which revolved around my depression caused by the low turnout at a stars gig in Bloomsbury Bowling Alleys...
Truth is, I've been to court many times over the years and I've always found it to be one of the most gross and misleading ways of spending a day known to mankind.
Seriously. If you've never been - GO! And everything will become clear...
I guess my finest and most memorable court appearance was probably way back when I was 17 and known as Paul Dennisson (when caught) Paul Fullbrook AKA Young Paul the rest of the time...
Then, I was involved with the road protests against the M3 link through Twyford Down and one day we were up and about early on a Saturday looking to cause some trouble..
On that particular occasion, we weren't that successful.
The Police had a bouncy castle inflatable police station waiting for us, together with about 50 men and we were soon forced to retreat. Thing was they didn't think our casual walking away was at the right tempo, they therefore picked off 6 of us and made up a charge of Breach of the Peace whilst Obstructing a Police Officer...
So, on the way to the cells, we decided we'd go on hunger strike and when they tried to make up bail conditions that meant we couldn't go anywhere near the areas of protest we became entrenched in our position..
53 hours later, we were let out, hungry but victorious.
Basically, the Magistrate got the shits about having a bunch of determined folk including a 17 year on remand on hunger strike, so we got unconditional bail and were whisked straight back to the site of the crime by The BBC who had kittens when they relaised we were really were followed by shady men in Land Rovers wherever we went...
We learnt afterwards that at that point they were basically trying to pick out ring leaders and take the heart out of the whole thing..
Their mistakes were however manifold.
Firstly, the charges didn't actually exist. Breach of the Peace and Obstruction of the Police are two spearate things and can't be prit sticked together like that.
Secondly, they weren't legally able to hold us for 53 hours without charge no matter what.
And thirdly, the police and private detective firm who were paid to follow us had the whole thing on camera from 4 or 5 angles, all of which clearly showed we were walking away when arrested...!
Realising we had a good case for complaint, we subpoenered the video evidence, got the best lawyers for suing the police on the job, and though the conviction still stands, sued the police ass in the civil courts for £3500 a piece for Wrongful Imprisonment, Malicious Prosecution and False Arrest...
IT WAS A BLING BLANG BARGAIN!!!
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Cocoanuts/Monkey Business
By Zeppo Marx
Release date: By 05 April, 2004 |
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