A 72-year-old man has been jailed in the UK for selling mince pies during lockdown.
He may have done the wrong thing, but i’m hoping he doesn’t spend too long in custardy. (Drop the mic)
Neighbours reported Maurice Snelling to police in December 2020 when they saw people with questionable appetites gathering at his shooting club.
At that time Snelling’s local district was under tier three Covid restrictions, meaning food could only be served as takeaway.
But Snelling was allowing people to have a glass of wine and a mince pie on site.
If only he had been holding mince pie parties at Number 10 Downing Street, rather than at his humble club in Staffordshire, he would have been fine! But I digress.
If Snelling had been in Victoria, Australia, police would have beaten him with sticks and buried him at the bottom of the ocean wrapped in N95 face masks with a mRNA syringe in his neck, just to teach him a lesson.
But Staffordshire coppers were more circumspect.
When police - alerted by neighbours who had sniffed out the mince pie superspreader event - asked Snelling for CCTV footage of his club, the old man asked the CCTV contractor to remove the footage from the hard drive.
Naughty.
The contractor reported Snelling’s request to police. So now Snelling was in trouble for serving party pies and for attempting to erase all evidence of said party pies.
Snelling told the court he believed his premises was part of Cheshire which was subject to tier two restrictions allowing food to be eaten on site.
He pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and was sentenced on Tuesday to six months in prison.
He could have molested a child at the event and got less time. Oh wait, no, that’s only if he’d been of a certain ethnicity and offering mince pies to kiddies in the cop shop at Rotherham.
If only he’d have made mince pies for ISIS, he would have received free housing.
Judge Fletcher said the Snelling’s mince pie munching and CCTV fiddling "strikes at the heart of justice".
I say eating mince pies - rather than, say, steak and mushroom pies - strikes at the heart of bad taste. But that’s just me.
The judge said: "[Snelling] is anti-establishment, especially to the police. He doesn't like being told what to do. He treated police with resentment."
Whoa. Old man has bad attitude toward pie-hating police.
Bring back hanging!
I wonder how many police have been jailed for having a bad attitude toward the public during lockdown?
Nevertheless, the British justice system has ensured this menace is behind bars and the English are once again able to walk the streets free from mince pie oppression.
What a joke, 6 months jail, only it’s not funny. Misdeeds & punishment are all out of proportion.
History will judge us very badly, that’s if we can get back to some sense of normalcy.
Love these reports
So the elite and their laws are insane... As is, certain members of the public. Nothing new there. The question is how are we to work our lives around this insanity when being human costs you jail time. We must have reached an awesome level of humanity without the need for any of them, which in turn, must have sent them all bonkers and turned them all into raving lunatics. It's the fight between hoovering parents and their children that just don't need them anymore. Who will win? The dysfunctional hooverers and their kids that never escaped? Or will it be the pie eaters, who every now and then, get together with their community to discuss ideas while munching out on some good tucker and taking the piss out of the dobbers and mummies boys who go home proud for their part in putting away the joy spreaders? Stay happy people..they hate you for it.