Deep Fried ASBOs (or.. where did all the good guys go?)
May 21st, 2005Bristol pub landlord changes sign in carpark to “Porking Yard”. Local mosque that’s next door complains. Somerset & Avon Police get Magistrates to slap an ASBO on him. Pub landlord responds, in that hilarious way that only us Brits can do, by setting up a jolly ASBO burger van.
Ugh, I don’t know who to hate more in this sorry episode. The guy who put the sign up, for being an extremely unfunny twat? Those who complained for not having the strength to just ignore him (signs with the word ‘Pork’ on them should be pretty low on the British Muslim community’s list of problems, tbh)? The police, who were happy to waste time to apply for the ASBO rather than, I dunno, trying to catch people who actually commit crimes?
Why is life so complicated now? Before it was easy to pick sides, who was wrong and who was right; who had done bad and who hadn’t. Now we get situations where it’s just the loathsome characters battling it out - e.g. Saddam v. The Sun v. George Bush, or George Galloway v. Sen. Robert Bennett. Are there any good guys left? At all?