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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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got this today made me giggle .....
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fight after school.
1974 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best mates.
2009 - Police are called; Armed Response Unit arrives and arrest Johnny and Mark. Mobiles with video of fight confiscated as evidence. They are charged with assault, ASBOs are taken out and both are suspended even though Johnny started it. Diversionary conferences and parent meetings conducted. Video shown on YouTube.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't sit still in class, disrupts other students.
1974 - Jeffrey is sent to the principal's office and given 6 of the best. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2009 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. Counselled to death. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra funding because Jeffrey has a disability. Drops out of school.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbour's car and his Dad gives him the slipper.
1974 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2009 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. Psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mum has an affair with the psychologist. Psychologist gets a promotion.
Scenario: Mohammed fails high school English.
1974 - Mohammed retakes his exam, passes and goes to college..
2009 - Mohammed's cause is taken up by local human rights group. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a requirement for graduation is racist. Civil Liberties Association files class action lawsuit against state school system and his English teacher. English is banned from core curriculum. Mohammed is given his qualification anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers, puts them in a model plane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.
1974 - Ants die.
2009 - MI5 and police are called and Johnny is charged with perpetrating acts of terrorism. Teams investigate parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Mark falls during break and scrapes his knee. His teacher, Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him.
1974 - Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing.
2009 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy. Becomes gay.
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By (user no longer on site)
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Hmmm.
Susan is raped and murdered.
1974. John, a man with learning difficulties is arrested having been seen in the area. The police beat a confession out of him. John is jailed for 30 years and dies while in prison.
2009. John is arrested but is released after questioning by specially trained police officers. DNA found at the scene of the crime is matched to a man who lives 200 miles away who had it taken after spitting at a woman 5 years earlier. He is correctly convicted of the crime.
It's easy to view the past with rose tinted spectacles and sometimes the law is an ass. But some things have improved. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Scenario: Boy's new Chopper bike is stolen 4 weeks after Christmas.
1979: Boy cries heart out, bike not found.
2009: Bike STILL not found. Boy grows into man, accuses police of neglect and gross incompetence, is placed on subversive watch list, joins freedom fighter terror group, blows left hand off trying to set bomb under police commissioner's car, ends up bitter & twisted and dies in misery.
I loved that bike!!! {sniffle sniffle} |
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