Posted on 10/30/2008 2:41:31 AM PDT by Stoat
Mangled ... remains of Simpson’s 4x4 after Wright was finished with it
Powerful ... 13-ton digger
Wright, 30, turned Anthony Simpson’s Toyota Land Cruiser into a heap of metal.
He went berserk after discovering risque text messages from childhood friend Simpson, 22, on his partner Linda’s mobile.
Revenge ... Martyn Wright
Yesterday he was given a conditional discharge after admitting criminal damage, but said: “I’ve no regrets about it – he deserved it.”
District Judge Liz Harte told him at Chesterfield Magistrates Court, Derbys: “I have listened carefully to the circumstances in which this offence was committed.”
Wright, of Hartington – who is now back with Linda – said: “I’ve known Simpson for 15 years. This is something you just don’t do to your mates.”
'But I've no regrets about what I did - he deserved it.'
A JCB digger similar to the one used by Martyn Wright to crush the 4x4
Describing the attack on his car Mr Simpson said: 'What could I have done? I stayed out of the way because you don't argue with a 13-ton digger.'
Well, that'll teach the cheatin' SunnaBitch, won't it?
HI! Great to 'see' you again :-) I hope that all is well for you my FRiend :-)
Well, that'll teach the cheatin' SunnaBitch, won't it?
Let's hope so...many, many people have met a far worse fate for such dalliances than merely having their car destroyed.
I'm astonished that the boss took the woman back though...after she had a 5 month affair with his childhood friend? I suppose one has to be there to understand, and I certainly wasn't.
Have you ever been tempted to wreak havoc with your construction machinery?
Not married? No excuse for his “rampage.”
Heh, Heh, Heh...
I did that to a car I had that gave up the ghost after stripping the salvageable parts.
It was therapeutic. L0L
The human heart is a tempestuous place :-)
From the linked Daily Mail article:
'It had been going on for about four or five months before he found out. When he did find out he wasn't very happy, to say the least.
'The red mists must have come down and he was determined to have his revenge, but he shouldn't have taken the law into his own hands and do what he did.'
I did that to a car I had that gave up the ghost after stripping the salvageable parts.
It was therapeutic. L0L
I'll BET it was! Sounds like great fun!
It was a brit car too L0L
67 MG
67 MG
Something like this?
or a convertible?
It's a shame when such a pretty car has to go to that Great Scrapheap In The Sky, but I'm guessing that it had the legendary Lucas electrics and so you may have spent a fair amount of time tearing at your hair to keep it running :-)
:)
As for women ...well, I know the first one doesn't apply from experience. Everyone of my past girlfriends, apart from one, has had her best friend hit on me on the side in secret (never accepted though). I've always found that weird, because I would NEVER in my wildest dreams think that way about any of my friends' spouses/wives/girlfriends.
Anyways, this guy deserved a beating (I don't know about the car part, because now it will have to be paid for ....but if the guy whose car was destroyed was a real guy, he should just suck it up and not press charges. Sometimes one should take deserved punishment and call it a day).
Reminds me of a case where some Bulgarian friends of mine who were studying in the US got caught by (the then) INS (now ICE) because they were working in excess of the hours allotted for them as international students. Well, they get nabbed, and the first thing they do is sell-out a fellow Bulgarian friend of theirs, who had actually left the US to go visit family in Bulgaria. He was also working with them, but had not been caught. They sold him out, even though by doing that they never got any benefit, did not get any leeway from the authorities, and even worse had not even been asked if they knew anyone else.
Anyways, I made sure word got around to the other Bulgarian people (I am not Bulgarian, but I used to hang around with a lot of E.European types), and when those guys got out we 'talked' to them.
Yeah, I know they were working illegally, but it was only 5 hours above their allotted time (they had a 'needy student' work permit), and they never had to sell out the guy. Most importantly, he was their friend and was out of the country due to pressing needs.
LOL. Lucas the Devil strikes again!
Prince of Darkness!
I saw this similar story and admit I don't know what to say
HI! Great to 'see' you again :-) I hope that all is well for you my FRiend :-) Well, that'll teach the cheatin' SunnaBitch, won't it? Let's hope so...many, many people have met a far worse fate for such dalliances than merely having their car destroyed. I'm astonished that the boss took the woman back though...after she had a 5 month affair with his childhood friend? I suppose one has to be there to understand, and I certainly wasn't. Have you ever been tempted to wreak havoc with your construction machinery?
Like my Dad ( 1890-1985 ) used to say,
"We're in pretty good condition for the shape we're in..."
Seriously, we're OK for a couple of "gettin' older" folks- sweating bullets over the election, wishing those idiots in Washington would quit trying to "fix" the economy, which is just making everything worse. But OK.
It's hard say just what is the right response to that Cheating Partner scenario-- I could probably overlook a one-time fling, but five months? They had to be enjoying it a little too much for my liking.
Still, just having your truck squashed is gettin' off kind of easy-- shooting is much more common down here, and juries frequently acquit those who kill an unfaithful mate.
The biggest thing I've ever operated down here was a drag-link... a crane & scoop, on tracks, and you sure get a feeling of unstoppable power when you start one moving-- but I've never been *too* seriously tempted to wreak havoc with construction machinery.
Then again, I wasn't thinking about my mate with her legs up in the air, either...
Don’t tease. I thought there would be a pic of the missus to see if she was really worth it. Otherwise, post a pic of CZJ.
What I want to know is where are the pictures of his missus’ crushed car???
I mean, wasn’t she half of the equation?
Ah, Lucas, the Prince of Darkness. Positive ground and a Lucas electrical system: what horrors I can recall, and just in time for Halloween.
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