Stokes Arrested

[zaremba]

I think it is safe to say he will no longer be an ambassador for Chance to Shine?

Chance to Shiner?

 

[TheJediBrah]

No one knows what was being said. He might have been taunting Stokes about the four sixes in the T/20 final. Another valid mitigating circumstance to justify attempted murder.

Well, this thread has turned into a real pack of ****, but this post from the 19th page surely takes the biscuit:

I mean, seriously, when is attempted murder ever "justified"? It's attempted murder, for crying out loud. It is never "justified".

There's some guy out there who suffered actual bodily harm, who may or may not have been culpable in an attack and may or may not have been backing off at the time. We don't know.

But, for crissakes, it absolutely wasn't "justified", and the attitude expressed in that post is beyond repugnant.

 

[Cabinet96]

Seems pretty obviously sarcastic in the final sentence there.

 

[Athlai]

Would it be okay to punch the guy if he was a nazi?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Would it be okay to punch the guy if he was a nazi?

I'm somewhat surprised they didn't go with that. But I guess "homophobic" is more topical right now.

 

[weeman27bob]

 

[Starfighter]

Close proximity to Bristol

 

[igorbalis]

I'm 25, and have been on hundreds of (mostly ****) nights out in the UK; in my crap provincial town in the Midlands, for three years at university in Liverpool, and plenty of other cities too. I can count the number of proper fights I've seen on one hand, and I don't think I've ever seen anything as bad as what Stokes did.

I just don't think it IS that common. Mitigating factor that I'm a hip young cat who goes to bars frequented by groovers such as myself, rather than the Yates's in Burnley 5 jagerbombs for a tenner lad what you looking at lad ****ing spark you out lad i've got a tiny willy lad. No thanks, I'm gonna chat to this Belgian chick about Captain Beefheart, yeah?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Well, this thread has turned into a real pack of ****, but this post from the 19th page surely takes the biscuit:

I mean, seriously, when is attempted murder ever "justified"? It's attempted murder, for crying out loud. It is never "justified".

There's some guy out there who suffered actual bodily harm, who may or may not have been culpable in an attack and may or may not have been backing off at the time. We don't know.

But, for crissakes, it absolutely wasn't "justified", and the attitude expressed in that post is beyond repugnant.

Is this another one of those posts where you post something incredibly stupid and then when Adders calls you a dick you say you were obviously joking?

 

[igorbalis]

Whether or not you think Stokes was justifiably using self-defense, I think it's pretty clear he's a total scrote of a human.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Is this another one of those posts where you post something incredibly stupid and then when Adders calls you a dick you say you were obviously joking?

read the last few pages champ

 

[Lillian Thomson]

read the last few pages champ

I’ll take that as a “yes”.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I’ll take that as a “yes”.

Don't go full Adders on me and make a complete fool of yourself

If you read the last few pages you would see the origin of the joke. You may or may not find it funny, probably not, but I'm sure your smart enough to see what I was going for at least.

 

[social]

Stokes is reportedly feeling "fragile and devastated".

Rank in order of likelihood, the things that Stokes felt the morning after

a. Fragile

b. Devastated

c. Hungover

d. Like a ****wit

 

[Starfighter]

From most to least: c, d, b, a

 

[Scaly piscine]

Whether or not you think Stokes was justifiably using self-defense, I think it's pretty clear he's a total scrote of a human.

Not really. Hot-head and rather thick/naive yea. But he seems like he has a reasonable moral compass.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Never realised Andy Bell could fight like that.

 

[Shri]

There will be people far more offended by that than his fight.

He isn't making fun of a mentally challenged kid, he's repeating what he saw on tv.

 

[Smudge]

I didn't say that. I said it is a regular British city scene and the participants usually end up with a caution and a fine.

Evidence/stats to back this up please.

You just have to walk down a high street. Do you see those people getting a criminal record? They usually lock them up in the drunk tank overnight, charge them, fine them something like £100 and release them. You lot are acting like this is some unprecedented thing. The only thing unique about it is it concerned an international cricketer.

To be fair, sledger, he's got you utterly bang to rights here. Top statting, evidencing and forumming from S. "Glad I'm Not A" Kennedy.

 

[honestbharani]

Whilst that might make it better morally (from some perspectives, at least), legally it doesn't help him one jot.

If this goes to a jury, the morality angle might help right? Or will the jury be supposed to make a decision only based on the facts and law and stuff?