Addressing Oram’s extensive criminal record, Mr Evans said: 'He has shown he is a man that is capable of staying out of trouble, a man who is looking forward to raising his own child.
'He is sorry for what happened to Tyson.'*boggle*
Interesting phrasing from the hired mouthpiece, too - sorry for 'what happened'. Not for what he did, but for 'what happened'.
Or am I reading too much into it?
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The use of the passive voice (to distance oneself from responsibility) is a grammatical tick of the criminal classes. It's a shame when their briefs pick it up.
Assult, benefits, killing a pet and breeding, what a contribution this man is making to the world.
First thing I would do is castrate this piece of scum.
@ Bentosaurus
Bravely spoken, as usual. Perhaps your gallant supervisory role would be subject to retension of anonymity and outside the locked safety cage in which others performed the mutilation.
Look, at least he left the dripping wet body of the dog on the stairs so the chavlet could grunt 'goodbye' at it. I'm surprised he didn't set fire to the corpse there and then - seems decent enough to take it out of the house and bury it.
Who gwassed him up to the RSPCA?
And these creatures are breeding! Woe betide one of these little chavlets when he starts worrying how much they are costing him....B_A_A_A_TH TIME KIDS!
It is important to distinguish between disposing of an animal, which the owner is always entitled to do, from the method of disposal which has limits set on it.
It was open to Mr Oram to kill the dog using a bolt-gun or other weapon which caused instantaneous death without anticipation. Most people don't have those to hand and so usually ask the vet to give an injection. Mr Oram's biggest mistake seems to have been to not ring-round and find out how much this would cost; the PDSA does not like destroying animals but will do so for free if that is the best way to prevent suffering.
The Dogs Trust advise that they never destroy a healthy animal and undertake to re-home it.
Unfortunately Oram chose drowning which is not regarded as suitable even for squirrels.
His partner, Emma Barker, has denied failing to prevent unnecessary suffering to an animal and faces a trial in October.
I fail entirely to see what the purpose of this prosecution is; it's not her dog and it isn't clear that there is any duty on a bystander to prevent unnecessary suffering. A minor case is not the place to go creating a precedent which might create a duty on neighbours to intervene for fear of being later prosecuted as failing to prevent unnecessary suffering.
I hope the CPS steps in and discontinues this one before it causes a great deal of trouble.
#WoaR
The point seems to be to show them who's boss. Should've taken it to a shelter though.
Theodore Dalrymple, a writer who worked for many years as a prison doctor, noted the same use of the passive voice to deny responsibility. Prisoners would say to him things like, "The knife went in," not "I stabbed him."
Addressing Oram’s extensive criminal record, Mr Evans said: 'He has shown he is a man that is capable of staying out of trouble
S'funny, it shows me exactly the opposite!
"The use of the passive voice (to distance oneself from responsibility) is a grammatical tick of the criminal classes. It's a shame when their briefs pick it up."
I guess they feel they have a fair bit of responsibility to duck too...
"And these creatures are breeding!"
Faster than normal people, it seems!
"I fail entirely to see what the purpose of this prosecution is; it's not her dog and it isn't clear that there is any duty on a bystander to prevent unnecessary suffering."
We don't even have that for humans, do we? Except in France.
I think Jonathan has the right of it. Pour discourager les autres...
"Theodore Dalrymple, a writer who worked for many years as a prison doctor, noted the same use of the passive voice to deny responsibility."
Yes, indeed he did.
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