“It was raining, you had an umbrella. There were lamp posts and shop fronts…and at no point did you attempt to re-enact Gene Kelly’s legendary dance routine.”
If people champion the installation of mass-produced marketing dross like this in public spaces because it makes them feel warm and fuzzy and patriotic we're lucky Hannah Ingram-Moore suffered such a public fall from grace. The next thing could have been two dozen fibreglass Captain Sir Toms.
Misguidedly in a fundamentally amiable spirit, yes, but if your versions of Paddington had him getting tanked up on eight pints of Stella and physically destroying public property it must have been some very dark reboot.
Paddington even in the sanitised films is a destructive force who smashes windows so he can have a sleep. That's the behaviour of a drunken fool right there.
Paddington is the story of an immigrant integrating and becoming more English than the English. And what could be more in keeping with our proud national traditions than eight pints of Stella and public disorder?
I wonder how much we’d even need to change the film. Just add a drinking scene in the pub at Paddington station as a prologue and then keep the rest of the film exactly the same but voiced by Vinnie Jones alternating hostility & sarcasm.
I did jury service and the judge in sentencing said "If it was up to me I'd sentence you to never drive anything again apart from a Reliant Robin". He also had one of those furry pencil cases with a face on.
Was the judge referring to Paddington bear or St Mary's Hospital, where Nobel Prize winner Sir Alexander Fleming revolutionised the world of medicine with his discovery of penicillin?
TBH I actually think it was reasonable for a jury to seek some guidance on the meaning in law of “reasonable”.
And slightly unreasonable to assume any reasonable juror would come to court without any doubt (reasonable or otherwise) about the meaning of the word reasonable.
The defendants' defence lawyer, Tom Brymer, told the court they were "extremely ashamed about their actions".
"They are two men who are very different than what we see on the CCTV footage," he said.
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Drunken RAF engineers, eh.
https://casetext.com/case/united-states-ex-rel-gerald-mayo-v-satan-and-his-staff
A promotional fibreglass husk for a movie, featuring an animal of undetermined immigration status, was vandalised by two lads on the piss.
He’s not Jesus.
Companies would get away with a lot less shit if they did.
This judge is an absolute ledge, total master of pathos.
^ I thought that was funnier tbh
- The Queen probably
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyos-M48B8U
And slightly unreasonable to assume any reasonable juror would come to court without any doubt (reasonable or otherwise) about the meaning of the word reasonable.
I added it to the citations for Wiktionary:reasonable doubt.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:reasonable_doubt
"They are two men who are very different than what we see on the CCTV footage," he said.
So CCTV drove them to molest Paddington?
I swear, we've lost our marbles.