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Monday, July 18, 2005

[nilesfunnies] Kid told he must stay drunk & abusive by ASBO

Asbo teen ordered to get legless
By Lester Haines
Published Monday 18th July 2005 14:16 GMT

A Northumberland teenager has been granted every tearway's dream - an
Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo) requiring him to get drunk and "to use
threatening behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to
members of the public".

According to UK tabloid the Mirror, the unnamed 15-year-old yobbo was
legally obliged to carry alcohol on the streets of his native Alnwick after
the order rather agreeably substituted the word "without" for the word
"with". Accordingly, the lad was technically in breach of the Asbo if found
terrorising the good burghers of his home town without an alcopop in his
hand.

The Asbo was issued last February, but the cock-up was only discovered when
the teen found himself hauled once more before the magistrates for
apparently breaking the conditions of his Asbo, although the case against
him was dismissed because he had, obviously, simply been doing as
instructed.

An exasperated copper told the Mirror: "It took a long time to bring him to
book and get him before the court in the first place. It is maddening to
spend all that time only for the order then to tell him to go out and
misbehave. It really does beggar belief."

The powers that be are, mercifully, now calling time on the wobbly rascal. A
new Asbo will prevent him from "having alcohol in his possession or being
drunk in public" and/or "causing distress with unruly behaviour".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/18/asbo_teen/

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