Man gets life sentence for setting fire to two wheelie bins
 

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Moral of the story: don't admit your psychotic intentions before carrying them out.

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Moral of the story: live in the US where you can't be jailed for crimes you haven't committed yet.

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wtf is a wheelie bin?

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Moral of the story: Threaten society and they'll give you a free place to live and 3 squares a day.

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a bin ("trashcan") on wheels - wheelie bin.

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Sure, you keep them in Guntanamo.

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In America, this guy would (hopefully) be sent to an asylum and able to get out if his psychological condition was cured or radically moderated. Doesn't England have something similar?

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Moral of the story: live in the US where you can't be jailed for crimes you haven't committed yet.

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I kind of disagree. I'm glad this guy is locked up. This doesn't really make me sad at all. The phrase "wheelie bin" makes me sad.

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I'm sure he had a psychological assesment before going to court. However, we don't have that many in-patients on psychiatric wards these days, and care for the psychiatrically ill tends to be "community based" wherever possible. Essentially this is following a US (Reagan era?) style model.

I'm sure this case will successfully appeal for a shorter sentance, sounds like the judge got out of bed on the wrong side.

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Peter Ashman, defending, said: "My client is looking for a sentence which is as long as possible. He cannot countenance living in the community at all.

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So the dude wanted to be locked up forever? I don't see the problem here, nor the correlation gitmo...

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