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UK govt admits it pulled 10-year file-sharing jail sentence out of its arse

Wommit

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A long time ago a group of entrepreneurs decided to redirect some rubbish that was going to be burned. So they stopped the train, removed the mail bags and took some money (OK a LOT of money.) Ho Hum, win some lose some. The authorities seemed to be furious at this flagrant abuse of 'the establishment.' (Don't forget they robbed the Royal Mail.)

When caught and tried for this heinous crime they were sentenced to 30 years each.

This sentence, which was far more than usually given for murder, shocked the UK. The result was that, knowing that the judges might be very harsh on robbers, the perpetrators started killing those police officers and members of the public trying to stop or arrest them. After all, their reasoning went, if I am gonna do porridge for 30 years, I might as well chance another 14 years, concurrently, and maybe get away with both.

Was it Einstein that said "There are only two infinite things, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe."

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