Journalist condones keying of Aston Martin

[cb1965]

"I often feel like keying s****y cars. I particularly feel like keying high-performance cars."

Do I detect a hint of the green-eyed monster?
and an over zealous swear filter?

No you detect the ramblings of a criminally minded fcukwit!

 

[Giantvanman]

Thats incitement to commit criminal acts, whose reporting her to police and newspaper ombudsman?

Another look at me type, immature and pointless.

The very worst type of human being.

P

https://www.ipso.co.uk/IPSO/

"Inciting criminal acts" and "peddling hatred" online are offences in Scottish Law. I have reported this article is for one reason only; who the F is she/are they to decide above what value it is acceptable to damage something belonging to another?

With a little luck, she will also be reported to The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).

EDIT
Should anyone feel the need to make a complaint, here is a copy of her article, adjusted to allow for the forum filters:-

"I READ about a man who was caught keying a sw-a-nky car. A proper full-on sw-a-nky car. An Aston Martin V8 Vanquish, if you please.

Do you know what an Aston Martin V8 Vanquish would set you back? Somewhere in the region of £90,000.

Gary Brissett spotted an Aston Martin V8 Vanquish parked outside a supermarket and decided, for no discernible reason, to take his keys from his pocket and run them along the length of the vehicle's bodywork.


Mindless, pointless vandalism that caused £7,741 worth of damage.

Good for him.

I often feel like keying sw-a-nky cars. I particularly feel like keying high-performance cars.

One day someone will buy one of these cars and decide to be the one person to change the reputation of their drivers. They'll drive it and they'll be a decent guy.

They'll go at the speed limit, even when it's 30mph. They'll let other cars out in front of them when merging. They'll obey the two second rule on the motorway.

They won't race along suburban streets as though the devil's at their tail. They won't zoom about, rashly, as though overtaking this one car in front will give them the clear way they need to pelt to wherever they're going. The wherever that is obviously far more important than anyone else's destination. The rest of us are just pootling.

Brissett, who is a single father, is now facing a possible prison sentence, which won't be good for his child. I imagine he's most likely kicking himself as he prepares for his sentencing date next week.

I hate to generalise but allow me to generalise. You can't spend more than a house worth on a car and claim the moral high ground.

Why is it impressive or desirable to show off your wealth buying a car with a top speed of 201mph when you can't take it more than 70mph?

Surely a chap confident in his man credentials would be happy in a Nissan Leaf, ostentatiously plugging it in to charge at a city centre rapid charging point, winking at the ladies going by as he shows how much he cares about the future of the planet.

The level of fancy of the car is in direct proportion to the level of morality of the driver. You don't get boy racers in a Fiat 500.
Ostentatious cars driven selfishly by the unthinking are a motorised symbol of all that's wrong with this wealth divided world. And don't get me started on 4x4s in the city.

In my opinion Brissett deserves a medal, not a prison sentence."

 

[cb1965]

This article needs posting on every car forum on the net! It's backlash time!

 

[Druk]

I went to the IPSO website Kev but it doesn't have a section for "Inciting criminal acts" and "peddling hatred"? However I've filled it out anyhows under the "piss-poor journalism heading".

 

[E55BOF]

She's entitled to her view, however silly. She imputes specific adverse personal characteristics and behaviour to everyone who drives an expensive car, which is even sillier. I'd like to think she's just coat-trailing, but if it's a parody, she's superb at parodying what she herself appears to be.

"You don't get boy racers in a Fiat 500." Ever seen a Fiat 500 Abarth, duckie?

I wonder if she'd feel Brissett deserved a medal if he keyed HER car?

Same planet, different world. She's daft. Her article will only resonate with people who are as daft as she is, and live in the same world she inhabits. Ignore her; she won't go away, but she won't have any significant effect on reality...

 

[Giantvanman]

I went to the IPSO website Kev but it doesn't have a section for "Inciting criminal acts" and "peddling hatred"? However I've filled it out anyhows under the "piss-poor journalism heading".

In the Editor's Code of Practice there is:-
3. Whenever the public interest is invoked, the Regulator will require editors to demonstrate fully that they reasonably believed that publication, or journalistic activity undertaken with a view to publication, would be in the public interest and how, and with whom, that was established at the time.

The point I made was that it is NOT in the public interest to incite or peddle (both criminal acts) never mind praise a criminal act…looked at the above paragraph and tried to put myself in their shoes by asking, What facet of this report IS in the public interest? The public interest being the general public and not just the criminal element, I could think of no benefit or reason so made the complaint.

Those terms come from me checking to see if there are comparable offences in Scottish Law with what there is in England/Wales/NI.

 

[jonnyboy]

Houses for less than £90k.......hmmmm.
D*zy tart.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

D*zy tart.
It's backlash time!
criminally minded fcukwit!
She's what's known as a bawbag
What a complete Tw*@
stupid bint
stupid tart
sh1t journalist
extremely thick
utter moron.

Pot, kettle, black. Don't tell me... 'she started it'.

Talk about knee-jerk reactions.

 

[E55BOF]

Admit it; you quite fancy her, don't you?

 

[219]

Houses for less than £90k.......hmmmm.
D*zy tart.

Perhaps not in the overpriced south , but a search on a local estate agents produced over 1000 homes for sale up to £90K

Ours cost less than that .

Property search

 

[markmifsud]

she wasnt as pleased when someone accidentally dented her car.

https://twitter.com/LadyCatHT/status/606061757740797952

 

[markjay]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...-after-plea-from-the-cars-owner-a2947526.html

 

[MancMike]

Regarding the original post, I sincerely hope whatever middle of the road car she drives now gets keyed by someone who can only afford a £400 fiesta...

Right, so this guy is only going to have to repay a small portion of the cost of the damage, from his benefits, just what he can afford over and above what he's sending to another country's economy every week? Wonderful. No, I wouldn't have sent him to prison either, that solves nothing and costs us yet more money. I'd have given him 250 hours community service and have ordered him to repay all the 7k of damage he caused.

 

[Dryce]

I'd have given him 250 hours community service and have ordered him to repay all the 7k of damage he caused.

I think there should be a principle where somebody wilfully causes criminal damage such as a case like this then they are liable for *all* of it - not just some token amount.

I wonder how many other cars this guy has casually key'ed but not been caught?

 

[markjay]

I think there should be a principle where somebody wilfully causes criminal damage such as a case like this then they are liable for *all* of it - not just some token amount....

That's a difficult one... if he is receiving benefits in order to support his children, then any monies he may come into are likely to be funded by us taxpayers in one way or another.

 

[markjay]

...I wonder how many other cars this guy has casually key'ed but not been caught?

The gap between poor and rich in any society if the cause of mush frustration and envy as well as a primary reason for people's entrepreneurial endeavours and success. A double-edged sword, if you like....

(warning - popcorn post )

 

[MancMike]

The gap between poor and rich in any society if the cause of mush frustration

The problem isn't the gap, or should then the rich limit their financial success to avoid the gap widening, wait for the poor to catch up or even give them some handouts as they've clearly just been 'unlucky'.

It's the sense of entitlement that the poor seem to have. They believe everyone with nice stuff was born with a silver spoon in their mouths, they believe they don't deserve their nice stuff and that any financial loss incurred by their vandalism 'he can afford it'.

I'm not rich, I grew up on a council estate, now live in a notoriously rough part of Manchester and have a reasonable job, but I see the above behaviour on an almost daily basis.

(warning - popcorn post )

Mine's just popping right now in the microwave.

 

[Dryce]

That's a difficult one... if he is receiving benefits in order to support his children, then any monies he may come into are likely to be funded by us taxpayers in one way or another.

So prison then.

As far as his kids are concerned he can't be the best influence .....

 

[Dryce]

It's the sense of entitlement that the poor seem to have. They believe everyone with nice stuff was born with a silver spoon in their mouths, they believe they don't deserve their nice stuff and that any financial loss incurred by their vandalism 'he can afford it'.

Hmmmmmmmm.

I smell stereotyping here.

IME there are examples of people across the socio-economic spectrum who exhibit these sorts of attitudes in one way or another.

 

[markjay]

I think that simplistic overview is that is you grow-up in an environment where everyone else is just like you, and have the same as you, and you know no better, then you have little to aspire to.

But if you constantly see how others are far better off than you... then some people will aspire to achieve or surpass this, while other will seek to destroy it.