Jaxbar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...re/4701360.stm

Just been discussiing the above story with an American friend. I really felt for the guy who was poisoned and bad for the guy who played the prank. The friend believes that the guy had every right to put whatever he wanted in his bottle of coke and the other guy stole it so it shouldnt have been a prison sentence. What do you think?

woodsey

ffs the guy is now deaf and blind for nicking his mates coke, I think he's lucky to have only got 15 months, IMO it should have been longer...I do feel bad for the guy that spiked the drink but what did he think was going to happen if he put anti freeze in it? He obviously has a house brick for a brain, if it had of been me, I'd have pissed in it.

Jaxbar

Glad its not just me then, the guy nearly had me convinced that it was the guys right to put whatever he wanted in the coke and used the same argument as a burglar on your land shouldnt be there etc. since i read the story i felt awful for the whole situation but the guy convinced me it was justice. Bloody ran rings round me i guess

ukemigrant

The fact that you are even asking tells me you've been living over here long enough to have developed symptoms of Itsnotmyfaultitis - closely related to Ihavenoresponsibiltyformyactionseria.

Of course the guy who spiked the drink was at fault. Next!

Duncan Roberts

What makes him more at fault is he didn't tell anyone right away. If he had the chances are the other guy would have been fine, that in itself should have upped the sentance.

Leslie

Wonder why the guy was always drinking out of his friends coke? That sounds pretty bizarre. I mean really.... who does that?

The guy that did the poisoning is at fault. If he's a mechanic then he knows that anti-freeze is pretty much odorless and tasteless.... or perhaps even has pleasant taste. That's why pets die from ingesting it all of the time. I've been warned (from childhood) about the dangers of pets getting into the anti-freeze.

Angry White Pyjamas

Its all about intent.

He knew that the probability was that his colleague would drink the cola and he put the anti-freeze in because of that. Therefore he intended his colleague to drink the spiked cola.

If he didn't know his colleague was drinking his cola and just put it in for some bizzare reason then theres no intent and hence not guilty.

Guilty as charged.

He's lucky he didn't get charged with attempted murder.

anotherlimey

Damn it, there goes my winter-drink-for-dogs idea.

BigDavyG

You can piss in a bottle ??
Bloody hell - that must be quite a trick

Ray

Some wines contain anti-freeze .. I seem to remember a big case about that many years ago ...

Schnorbitz

From what kind of distance?

CarlM

Thats why you want to buy French wine with 'Appelation Controllee' on the label - (its French for 'we went light on the antifreeze')

Jerseygirl

Easier to write in the snow

Ray

This is what I remembered.... not that bad really ... they say ..

While it's true that some Austrian winemakers were caught adding an illicit sweetening agent in 1985, the substance in question was diethylene glycol, not ethylene glycol. Though you probably wouldn't want to chug a gallon of it, diethylene glycol is nowhere near as harmful as its similarly named chemical cousin.

Chorlton

I saw that on TV once. With training the girlies can be pretty accurate