On 23/06/2023 10:15 am, JNugent wrote:
Have you cancelled any posts recently (especially in the water-pistol-over-reaction-by-chavs-who-are-frightened-of-water thread)?
Your apparently recently posted response to Mad M is marked as unavailable.
I'll check it on Google Groups too.
Well, it is still available on Google Groups (but not on the Berlin Free University server).
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22 Jun 2023, 22:39:25 (12 hours ago)
Where was the Edinburgh cyclist in all this?
swldx...@gmail.com <
swldx...@gmail.com> wrote:
A “NIGHTMARE neighbour” has dodged jail after she stormed into a grandmother’s house and savagely beat her after being accidentally
sprayed with a water pistol.
Marina Bolton, 57, admitted assault and criminal damage after
attacking nurse Jo Bates in front of her grandkids.
The fight erupted in April this year when Mrs Bates’ grandson Matthew, four, decided to water her roses and sprayed a water pistol over the
fence in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Furious Bolton burst into her house and launched into savage 10 minute attack on Mrs Bates, who also runs Southend Homeless Hub, leaving her battered and bruised.
She said: “When I moved in 12 years ago there were no problems but she
has turned into a nightmare neighbour.
“I had my grandchildren here so I went to the shops and bought the
boys some water pistols. I put some music on and they were playing in
the garden.
“Matthew decided to water the roses and some of the water went over
the fence. He is only four years old. There was just the most
horrendous shouting and screaming.
“The next thing I knew she was in my house. I was kicked and punched
for ten minutes.
“I managed to get to the phone and dial 999. I couldn’t speak to the operator but they heard the tail end of the assault.”
Mrs Bolton added that Matthew and Bradley, seven, are still
traumatised by the attack.
She said: “They are not used to seeing violence.
“Their parents don’t even shout at them, they will sit down and talk.
So it was very distressing for them.
“Bradley still can’t be left on his own.”
She also alleged there was bad blood between the pair because Bolton
had planted “huge” eucalyptus trees in her garden, allowed her Great Dane to damage the fence, and said her neighbour’s CCTV cameras
point into her garden.
Bolton admitted assault by beating and causing £550 of damage to a
wooden side gate, a speaker and an internal door.
She was handed a four-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months,
at Southend Magistrates’ Court and ordered to pay £1,220 compensation. Magistrates said the incident was a “sustained assault” and the forced entry showed “pre-meditation”.
In mitigation, Bolton, a self-employed cleaner, argued that she had
poor mental health and was provoked by the child’s use of the water pistol.
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Spike
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Just a thought... is "poor mental health" the general answer to the
question of why some adults over-react so badly to children with toy
water pistols?
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