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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: Richard Hakluyt on July 12, 2009, 01:36:31 PM

Title: Man fined for punching punchbag, only in Amer.... .er........ Ireland.
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on July 12, 2009, 01:36:31 PM
 :lol:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8144233.stm
Title: Re: Man fined for punching punchbag, only in Amer.... .er........ Ireland.
Post by: Siege on July 12, 2009, 01:56:30 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 12, 2009, 01:36:31 PM
:lol:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8144233.stm


Cut and paste, and highlight the relevant passages!




Title: Re: Man fined for punching punchbag, only in Amer.... .er........ Ireland.
Post by: Ed Anger on July 12, 2009, 02:18:23 PM
Oh no, an INTERNET ORDER to do something. How serious.
Title: Re: Man fined for punching punchbag, only in Amer.... .er........ Ireland.
Post by: DGuller on July 12, 2009, 03:07:40 PM
He hasn't been fined, he was ordered to pay for the damage.
Title: Re: Man fined for punching punchbag, only in Amer.... .er........ Ireland.
Post by: Martinus on July 12, 2009, 04:19:35 PM
A man made to pay for property he damaged in an angry fit of vandalism?

What is the world coming to!  :mad:
Title: Re: Man fined for punching punchbag, only in Amer.... .er........ Ireland.
Post by: DontSayBanana on July 12, 2009, 08:43:27 PM
Yeah. Not in America. Here, consumer advocacy groups would have stepped in and forced a recall of the "punching bag mechanism" (is that something like the carnival game where you swing a mallet down on a lever to send a weight shooting upward?), citing safety reasons. :contract:
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