Adeel Ayub filmed himself – or rather, had himself filmed (who was the accomplice?) – causing significant damage to the Asda store where he worked. He is shown causing damage to food, urinating in a bin (and the suggestion he also urinated in the fridge), slashing furniture, and damaging other stock and equipment.
He was given the maximum term possible by magistrates (its only 2 months, but he was shocked because he wasn’t expecting anything like that).
His lawyer, Manny Anwar-Qureshi said:
I don’t think the sentence is proportionate to the crime.
He was very remorseful and has grown up a lot since the incidents.
He was stitched up by other people. I am very surprised at the sentence given the crimes were four years ago.
You can see him making High Court Judge in a year or two, can’t you?
But back to Ayub… he can’t really be all there, can he? It makes you wonder how you can possibly share the same DNA with someone like this. I mean, you just can’t get your head around the fact that this kind of vermin even exists! He has grown up a lot? He’s 30, for God’s sake – which means he was 26 when he did this. Grown up? What was he before – a vegetable?
It serves him right he has gone to jail. The only possible downside is that he is already overburdened with an attitude problem and that is bound to develop further, because this kind of person never accepts blame for things like this.
…savaging animals and terrorising villagers… It has been variously described as a wild boar, a hyena and a ferocious wolf… They say it’s to blame for the recent deer slayings…
Make your own mind up from this grainy picture:
To be honest, it looks like an overweight labrador. And have you ever wondered why (if I may borrow from Futurama for a moment) these things always typically dwell just behind rocks or in distant long grass but are also sometimes playful, bounding into thick fogs and out-of-focus areas? Just like Bigfoot.
Can’t someone with a decent camera (and who doesn’t have the balance of a 90 year old) take a good picture just for once?
One villager (or should it be ‘village idiot’?) is convinced it is a hyena. This is because he came down one morning after the beast had rifled his bins and…
‘All the rubbish was strewn over my garden. This happened on a few occasions and one night I heard snuffles and looked out of my window and saw some kind of hyena standing rigid on its back legs.’
Wow. Round this way it is only foxes that do this. I never considered it might be Hyenas that live under next door’s shed!
He then then continues to refer to it as a wolf – being relatively unconcerned by the fact that in every other country in the world wolves avoid humans by at least a zillion miles, and oblivious to the minor detail that wolves and hyenas are actually different animals. But this is a Lancashire village we’re dealing with (and he’s probably also a Manchester Utd supporter).
EDIT 20/1/2010: This is proving popular. Within 10 minutes of posting it I’m getting loads of hits – many of which are from places like Manchester, Blackburn, and Batley! Village Idiot country!
EDIT 21/1/2010: I noticed in the comments on the Daily Mail version of the story someone called Daniel Cook, from Ringmer, has written some very wise advice. This man is obviously an expert, and the Buckshaw authorities ought to call him in (along with Nick Pope, of course) as soon as possible to end the bloodshed and loss of life in the village:
It looks like a hyena if it is then it MUST be stopped before it attacks a person
Oh, won’t someone PLEEEEASE think of the children? I add this quote because whoever is out there looking to recapture Mr Cook needs to know he is down in East Sussex.
A few weeks ago I commented on a story where Munir and Tokeer Hussain (Tokeer’s name was spelled ‘Tokir’ in the original story) had been jailed by a living fossil (known colloquially as ‘a judge’) after they had chased, caught, and beat up a scumbag (Walid Salem) – a burglar who had broken into Munir’s house and tied up his wife and children. In the first story, knives and death threats were also mentioned. The imbecile representing what passes as ‘law’ in this country let this pathetic animal off, whereas the injured parties were locked up.
Well, I noticed today in the Daily Mail that both their sentences have been cut, with Munir being released on a reduced and suspended sentence. Tokeer has had his sentence reduced, but not suspended, so he remains in jail (from what I understand in the story). Apparently, since it wasn’t his wife and kids, he isn’t getting the ‘merciful’ (the actual word used) reduction.
Quite frankly, it is still pathetic. Both men should be awarded medals – not convicted of any crime.
Salem is (or was) a career criminal with 50 convictions stretching back over 30 years (so you can guess how many crimes he has gotten away with).
Still, the original judge obviously made a huge balls up with his incompetence – and he will have gotten away scot free as well. All ready to screw someone else’s life up with his unique take on reality, no doubt.
A while ago, I wrote about the Polar Bears Fallacy (and a new book which was due to be published). The book was called Global Warming And Other Bollocks , and as it happens is wasn’t a bad read. It brought into question a lot of the things we take for granted when we are told them by the media.
Let me just clarify: I say ‘media’ because although the media would argue it is reporting what the government says, it actually reports what it wants to report. The Daily Mail, for example, is happy to twist every detail in order to attack Labour and Gordon Brown (and especially Tony Blair) – so it cannot then turn around and argue it is innocent when it has been part of a blatant lie or hypocritical story (remember the Incandescent Light Bulb saga?) No. If the media publishes something then it – and only it – is responsible for it if it hasn’t researched properly.
Claims by the world’s leading climate scientists that most of the Himalayan glaciers will vanish within 25 years were last night exposed as nonsense.
It explains where the story came from:
But the experts behind the warning have now admitted their claim was not based on hard science – but a news story that appeared in the magazine New Scientist in the late 1990s.
There is a very telling quote from Dr Benny Peiser, head of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He says:
The IPCC review process has been shown on numerous occasions to lack transparency and due diligence.
Its work is controlled by a tightly knit group of individuals who are completely convinced that they are right. As a result, conflicting data and evidence, even if published in peer reviewed journals, are regularly ignored, while exaggerated claims, even if contentious or not peer-reviewed, are often highlighted in IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] reports.
This is something I detest: holding a belief, then twisting and manipulating facts to fit in with that belief.
In actual fact, the whole chain of involvement regarding the Melting Glaciers story is laughable. It starts with a claim made in 2005 by WWF (the uber-green charity that likes Pandas and other cuddly animals) after it read a story from The New Scientist (aka ‘She’s Dumbed Down Enough Captain – I Cannae Dumb Her Down Any More’) in 1999, which based its story on a telephone chat with Syed Hasnain (an unknown scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi), who now claims his comments were “pure speculation” (so you can see what sort of ‘scientists’ he is, then).
I noticed in the article references to a few other recent stories that I’d missed.
There’s this one (also in the Mail) – which in itself appears to be the latest in an ongoing issue which I had also missed. Here, the IPCC has produced graphs which appear to ‘prove’ major temperature changes in recent years – but these have been artfully manipulated to hide data which might not support the view. In fact, the data it hid (or rather ‘removed’) actually showed the opposite of what it was trying to claim. How? Well, the IPCC’s graph is shown below:
The IPCC’s Climate Change Graph
But if you look more closely at the area inside the red square you can see that the green line disappears. The data which are missing actually show a marked fall in temperature – but the IPCC didn’t like that and left it out:
The REAL Data The IPCC Should Have Included
You can read the article yourself to pick up the peripheral matter of who leaked the data, but the deceit involved is central to my gripe. One telling quote from the article says:
For example, some suggest that the ‘medieval warm period’, the 350-year era that started around 1000, when red wine grapes flourished in southern England and the Vikings tilled now-frozen farms in Greenland, was considerably warmer than even 1998.
Of course, this is inconvenient to climate change believers because there were no cars or factories pumping out greenhouse gases in 1000AD – yet the Earth still warmed.
As the article points out, the mercury thermometer wasn’t invented until 1724, so producing a graph like the one above is very tricky and will always involve guesswork and unprovable assumptions. But when you have the following kind of person directing or helping to create such a graph then you really need to hold on to your hat:
Another British scientist – Chris Folland of the Met Office’s Hadley Centre – wrote the same day that using Briffa’s data might be awkward, because it suggested the past was too warm. This, he lamented, ‘dilutes the message rather significantly’.
What this one is saying is that it might be best to leave out some information because it goes against the point they are trying to make and so weakens their argument. It is shocking that anyone should remain in their position of employment with such shameful unethical behaviour occurring to them so readily.
What they ended up doing was taking out the data they didn’t like, and replaced them with some they did.
In another article in the same thread (to do with the Copenhagen summit late last year), the British Meteorological Office is also implicated. For those who don’t know, the Met Office is responsible for getting short, medium, and long-term weather forecasts wrong in the UK; and it seems it is now diversifying into the arena of political intrigue with a similar level of competence. It is claimed that they ‘manipulated’ climate change figures to make sure that any suggestions that global warming was not a fact were omitted or masked. This particular story was dated 17 December 2009 and is heavily tarred with the ‘hacked emails’ thread, but one from a few weeks previously highlighted the same issue.
You need to read all these stories in context, as they are all interlinked.
Global warming as a man-made phenomenon is far from proven.
Fiat’s 3500-car a year contract with BSM is not “silly fleet business involving damaged RVs” according to the company’s UK managing director Andrew Humberstone.
This appears to be in response to the suggestion that Vauxhall walked away from the table because it wouldn’t compromise margins – which is gobbledegook, because it is obvious that Vauxhall walked away for precisely that reason. I mean, if you supply 3,500 cars a year for free you tend to eat into your margins a little!
Browsing the news this morning for relevent stories and I noticed this one from December. I love how people get all excited about the most mundane things.
Vodafone has won the BSM driving school account for over 100 employees in 94 offices in the country.
Wow! If I’d had seen that last night I doubt that I’d have slept properly.
BSM IT Head Russell Levan then joined the party:
Effective, responsive and flexible communication is the key to business success. Now our people can access up to date campaign data, financial information or can even have the latest TV ad at their fingertips.
Stuff and nonsense. But franchisees had better be ready:
As part of BSM’s mobile working strategy, it will also deploy mobile solutions to 3,000 of its driving instructors in 2010.
In the past, whenever I’ve had a phone or provider dumped on me, it has been the crappiest phone imaginable and a major irritation if I tried to carry it with me. There is no way I am giving up my Orange monthly contract or waiving my right to the phone and service of my choice. There is also no way I am carrying around two phones – one of which will be a brick compared to my HTC Touch HD (and, hopefully, the Google Nexus when I next upgrade).
This morning was crazy! I went to pick a pupil up for a 9.00am lesson and there was traffic everywhere queued up much further than usual.
The radio was going nuts over how many accidents there had been due to black ice! Some places were gridlocked, and they were saying it was the worst driving conditions since this cold spell began before Christmas.
They weren’t wrong.
All but the largest roads were effectively smooth ice. You see, last night it froze, rained, and froze some more. The temperature was hovering around the 0°C mark in Nottingham city centre, but I guess it must have been lower out of town because a 9 mile tailback was reported on the A46 due to ice on both carriageways. Even in town, I went round a roundabout on a slant as slow as I could (knowing it was black ice) and got some sideways movement.
A council gritter explained the problem for the radio news: it rained and froze, he told us. I’m not going into this again, but suffice it to say if they’d have gritted in the first place it wouldn’t have been as bad. Ungritted roads were lethal – and that was where the accidents were happening.
When I got to my pupil 15 minutes late she could barely stand on the road, and neither could I. To make matters worse, it was snowing and settling. So we rearranged it.
Oh, and there is no way any tests are going ahead while it is like this – so call the Test Centre to check.
EDIT 14/1/2010: And STILL there are people typing “driving tests cancelled today or not” into their search engines! Driving tests WHERE?
Look, you’ve got to get it into your heads: the world is a big place and you need to be a little bit more specific when using Google to find things; and as I’ve implied elsewhere, the Test Centre for John O’Groats does not tend to take the lead from the one for Lands End when deciding whether to cancel due to the weather or not (what it does is open the door, look outside, and then decides).
You need to phone YOUR local Test Centre because THEY – and ONLY THEY – will be able to tell you whether your test is going ahead or not. Their number is on YOUR confirmation letter or email.
Honestly! If your test DOES go ahead, this afternoon you could be out there on your own amongst real traffic… Come on! Get a grip!
I got fed up waiting and contacted HP via their live chat facility. The guy I spoke with(Kalyan) was very helpful and he gave me this workaround to try. I must stress that it did not work for me, and in the end we agreed that I’d be best waiting for the official drivers which are “due soon”. But maybe someone else will benefit.
Right-click the downloaded program and select Properties .
Go to the Compatibility tab.
Enable the option to ” Run in compatibility mode ” and select ” Vista ” from the dropdown list.
Click OK .
At this stage – if this is going to work easily – the program will install without any problems.
When I did it I got a fatal error. It was then suggested I uninstall the partially installed program, disable the firewall and antivirus , and try the above steps again. Note that I am behind a hardware firewall on my router – I don’t like being connected to the Internet without a firewall, so please be careful if you disable it on yours.
I still got a fatal error, although it did get much further this time. So I was then asked to do the following.
Click the Start globe, choose All Programs , then Accessories .
Right-click Command Prompt and choose ” Run as Administrator “.
Locate the folder where VBSCRIPT.DLL is located using Windows Explorer (it should be C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32 , but if it isn’t note down the actual path).
At the prompt in the Command Prompt window, type: CD C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32 and press Enter .
Click Continue if a window appears.
Type REGSVR32 VBSCRIPT.DLL and press Enter .
It should tell you it was successful. Type “exit ” and press Enter .
Now try installing the software again as described above (no need to uninstall the previous try according to Kalyan).
If this works for you, good luck. As I say, it didn’t for me – I still got a fatal error (early on this time). And don’t forget to re-enable your firewall and antivirus.
Look at this nutcase. He’s had spectacles tattooed on to his face!
How can anyone have such low self-esteem to want to do something like this? I mean, he looks a mess already, with his other tattoos, so the glasses don’t make that much difference, but… what a berk! What will he look like when he’s 60?
EDIT 27/02/2010: This is proving quite a popular post. I’d feel more comfortable, though, if I could be sure that most of the people searching for it weren’t thinking “WOW! That’s cool – must do something like that myself”.
Geraldine Tavares was caught speeding 13 times in 2 months by the same Gatso camera. What makes it worse was that she was doing it in her mother’s car - which appears to have been one of those Motability-funded cars – and, as a result, her mother has had the car confiscated because the offences mean she is in breach of the terms of the agreement which allows her to have it!
As well as the 13 offences mentioned, Tavares was accused of 17 more (if I understand the report correctly). The prosecutor said he would only go ahead with four of them as they were a sufficient sample for the magistrates to make a decision. Of these four, she was clocked at 46, 48, and twice at 61mph on the same 30mph stretch of road in Wednesfield, West Midlands, all at around 4am.
She said she was tired.
Tavares was banned for two years and fined £100. Her disabled mother will have to wait two years before she can have the car back.
Tavares should have her licence taken away permanently! Just like the idiots who get towed behind cars in the snow who don’t think of what could happen to innocent bystanders, just their own stupid enjoyment, Tavares gave no consideration to what she could have done to other people by driving like that so frequently.
I saw