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Originally Posted by homealone
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Originally Posted by Chimaera
10 years? I'll be surprised if he gets 5 - the defence being that he didn't intend to kill or injure anyone when he got in the car, so it's not a pre-meditated act like going after someone with a gun.
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yes, one view, another is that by knowingly operating a vehicle without a suitable licence you are in unauthorised possession of a weapon just as deadly as a gun. 
sorry for the melodrama, it wasn't aimed at Chimeara especially, but hers was a good post to hang it on, just my  , though. |
Crikey Homer - that's what my driving test examiner said when I had passed my driving test - to be careful now I had passed as a car was as dangerous as a gun!
(I know you weren't aiming it at me!
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