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I do hope so.


In fact i hope he is now wondering if someone will find him and explain to him how to behave in future

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Re: Drunk student shows no respect for soldiers
 

quite agree EOB ,so let this be a lesson to all you students

it's not big(especially in his case)and it's not clever

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Yeah baby I'm all for that. :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

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I am not saying he is not responsible for his actions and he himself agrees.

I am saying though that I think you need to actively want to disrespect this soldiers for that to be valid. In other words I think he meant no malice in his actions, indeed I don't think he was thinking about it. Which makes it slightly less aggravating. This is not a evil or sick person willingly defacing a grave, it's a stupid guy doing something stupid when he is drunk.

Obviously he will have to pay some penalty but I don't think he deserves the anger that will be directed at him as if he logically wanted to make a statement about the soldiers.

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Surely they will have better things to do like getting ready to fight in an unwinnable war?

You know I agree with that, even though it was a horrible thing he did it's not like he actually knew what he was doing or meant any malice towards the soldiers memory

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Well maybe you should look a bit closer at the photos as he is aiming at the top of the memorial with its wreaths and not at the side, a real pity it was not electrified.

Being drunk is not an excuse for what he has done.:mad:

Re: Drunk student shows no respect for soldiers
 

Not an 'excuse' but it's not evidence that he feels any malice or disrespect to the soldiers. It's an very stupid act that was committed under the influence of alcohol. People are acting like he is a spiteful, evil, sod.

He seems to be genuinely apologetic. He just needs the suitable punishment and not a pitchfork routine. Just chalk it up to a lack of judgement and move on.

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As I said above he was aiming to get on top of the memorial not the side of it, and if it was not for the soldiers it remembers I would not like to think what would have happened to him under the regime we defeated in 2 World Wars if he urinated on their memorial.

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Well I wasn't there so I can't say if or what he was aiming for (if anything).

He was drunk and has been shamed for it so he would have learnt his lesson.

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do drunken students show any respect for anything ?

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I was a drunken student once and urinated against a church wall, so no, I don't think it goes through your head what you're thinking and it's not a middle finger to anyone, you work like a dog, you find a vertical surface and go ;)

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What do you think is a suitable punishment, being thrown out of uni?

Philip Laing, 19, has left his student digs after being ordered to stay away from Sheffield Hallam University while tutors decide whether to expel him.

http://dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view...ial-for-heroes

Btw I tend to agree with you, he messed up really bad but then we have all done stupid things when slaughtered, I mean he was so wrecked he even gave the reportors his name! I'd have said a suitable punishment would be for him to clean the memorial every Sunday morning until further notice but then I guess he'd prefer the beating some members here have suggested rather than being expelled.

Re: Drunk student shows no respect for soldiers
 

Maybe an apology. Which he has given. Then a couple of days community service with the Royal British Legion. He certainly does not deserve expulsion, and the fact his name has been printed in the national press is pretty bad public humiliation for him.

I mean there is no evidence he is a bad guy, just that he did something stupid.

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1. Yes. He should be punished.
2. The punishment should fit the crime.
3. This continues to expose just how ridiculous our legal system is: Lad gets drunk on night out, pees on war memorial, gets photo taken, gets caught, is going to be prosecuted, ends up all over the news, might get kicked out of Uni, is publicly shamed and villified. Youths torture and kill small child, get new identities and state pays for them for the rest of their lives.....super.

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Time for a bloody revolution me thinks ? ;)