Boy in Court for throwing sausage

[JODO 2]

Boy in court for throwing sausage

Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:36PM EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - A 12-year-old British boy appeared in court Wednesday charged with assault for throwing a sausage at a pensioner, police said.

The boy's mother described the decision to charge her son as "an absolute joke," although police said they had no choice.

The youth, who can't be named, was arrested after a 74-year-old man reported him to police for throwing a stone in Manchester, northern England.

The object turned out to be a cocktail sausage.

"Charging was the only option because the boy had previously been issued with three reprimands on separate occasions," a Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said.

Police and prosecutors have launched a joint review of the case after a judge at Manchester Youth Court reportedly urged them to reconsider.

"If he has done what was suggested it is very bad behavior," District Judge Tim Devas was reported as saying in the Manchester Evening News. "But is it in the public interest to prosecute a 12-year-old boy who threw a sausage?"

The boy's mother said her son was worried he might be sent to prison.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL2225289020070822

[Sister Fracas 5]

*snicker* A cocktail sausage... oh dear....

[Peikko 1,575]

Maybe the mother should be sent to prison for allowing her son to believe it's ok to throw sausages at pensioners? Actually, she sounds rather pathetic, although, who knows, maybe the pensioner was a 'Victor Meldrew' character

[Nagishkaw 510]

'Life is just a cocktail party on the street' ....

[Mags 112]

"Charging was the only option because the boy had previously been issued with three reprimands on separate occasions," a Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said.

It does sounds silly but if it was his fourth "offence" then I can understand why.

Just a shame it had to be a sausage....

[Jenn! 918]

If someone threw a sausage at me, I'd be like "Awesome! Free sausage!".

[mawilson 2,133]

Oh thank God.

All year round, British newspapers love to serve up stories of American idiocy,

especially about controversies confronting the American justice system. Just

how much effort the media go to to dig up these stories is anyone's guess, but

in a country as big as the USA, such stories are probably not hard to find.

And now, finally, they get a taste of their own medicine.

[Sister Fracas 5]

If someone threw a sausage at me, I'd be like "Awesome! Free sausage!".

[Mags 112]

If someone threw a sausage at me, I'd be like "Awesome! Free sausage!".

That's teh funnay!

:lol:

[almaty 19]

wow, i thought this thread was about something else

[eric&gen 0]

Who ordered the foot long sausage???!!!!

[Fandango 1,440]

If someone threw a sausage at me, I'd be like "Awesome! Free sausage!".

Hilarious!

But he should be prosecuted, the little chavvy yob......