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Drunken passenger 'lashed out' over £2 taxi fare


TAXI passenger Paul West “lashed about” during a violent struggle with a policeman after an argument about a taxi fare, Grimsby magistrates heard.

West, 50, of Coniston Avenue, Grimsby, admitted assaulting a police constable and using threatening words or behaviour on January 12.

Nick Wyman, prosecuting, said West had been drinking heavily. He was in a taxi and the driver asked for a £2 fare. West reacted aggressively and the driver pressed the emergency button.

The police arrived but West was “lashing about”. There was a clash of heads with an officer.

Andrew Havery, mitigating, said unemployed West thought his friend had paid the taxi fare. West, a “recovering alcoholic”, was given a one-year conditional discharge and was ordered to pay £50 compensation to both the officer and the taxi driver and £85 costs.


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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

A recovering alcoholic

I wish they'd start making people responsible for the amount of alcohol they consume and stop using it as an excuse for bad behaviour

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

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http://wingsoverscotland.com/ http://www.newsnetscotland.com/

It's just typical Legal pity seeking speak.

: Recovering alcoholic
: Bullied at School
: Parents Split up
: Beaten by Father or Mother
: Beaten up by tiny little Sister
: Recovering fecking Idiot
: Rediscovering Alcoholic
: Raised on powdered Milk

The fecking list of their pitiful whining plea's is endless. Once they are a fecking arshole always a fecking arshole..

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http://wingsoverscotland.com/ http://www.newsnetscotland.com/

Whoa aaaaaaaa Camel, Mail readership is viewed as being aspirational to the under privileged and Mindless thugs of the nation.

Oh that should cheer my mother up

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Strange thing is being drunk is often an aggravating factor.

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IDFIMH

Iv'e never understood why drunks behave violently, in my teen/young adult Pisshead days all I wanted after a bevvy was to be friends with the world followed shortly afterwards by falling asleep..........anywhere.

How can they manage that when a alcoholic gets £145 a week on top of their benefits because it's classed as a disability.

A mate of mine is a recovering alcoholic, he's been clean now for 3 years, he used to get £139 a week then his benefits on top like sick money, housing benefit and all the other add ons, he was on the thick end of £400 a week for doing nothing.

If they took the £145 a week beer money away it'd sort it out within months.

It's the same for drug addicts, they get the same £145 a week because it's classed as a disability, we all know where that money goes don't we??