[oxfordgamers] Re: Um, can you DUMB?

The real crime here is that someone thinks a Ford
Granada is worth $4800.

If I were the hitman, I would have stolen the victim's
car, forcing him to drive the Granada. A fate worse
than death!

Kvikk
(who drove a Plymouth Duster, and STILL could make fun
of my buddy who drove a Granada)

--- CWilson@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> If I were to actually consider accepting someone's
> offer to kill someone
> for, I would have asked for all cash or a better
> car.
> 
> -w
> 
> LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's High Court on Thursday
> jailed a bungling
> hitman who agreed to kill a businessman in return
> for $160 and an old car
> -- but confused the address and shot the wrong man.
> 
> Paul Jones, 41, ended up shooting and severely
> wounding his intended
> victim's next-door neighbor Ernest Broom.
> 
> Sentencing Jones to 17 years in prison, Judge Brian
> Barker said: "You shot
> him at point-blank range and it is a miracle he
> survived. You have ruined
> his life."
> 
> Jones had committed a "terrible and arrogant" crime
> in shooting Broom, who
> needed emergency surgery following the attack, the
> judge added.
> 
> The court heard earlier in the trial how businessman
> Tony Bristow had hired
> Jones, promising him $160 and a second-hand Ford
> Granada to shoot a
> business rival and former employee in November last
> year.
> 
> But Jones muddled the address and lay in wait
> outside Broom's house, next
> door to his target Douglas Burns.
> 
> When Broom was alerted by his wife to Jones lurking
> outside and gave chase,
> the hitman fired with a shotgun, peppering his
> stomach with 250
> perforations.
> 
> "He just shot me and left me there. He didn't give
> me a chance and never
> said a word," Broom told the court.
> 
> When Burns heard about the attack and realized he
> had been the intended
> target he rang Bristow to brag: "You shot the wrong
> man."
> 
> Bristow, convicted at an earlier trial of conspiracy
> to murder, had
> promised Jones the equivalent of around $5,000 for
> the contract killing --
> $160 in cash and the $4,800-valued car.
> 
> "You would think that life had a higher price. Sadly
> it does not,"
> prosecutor Anthony Munday said.
> 
> A jury found Jones, from West Sussex in southern
> England, guilty of
> conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and
> possessing a firearm with intent
> to endanger life.
> 
> 
> 


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use that voice to complain about the XBOX and PS2

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