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Are you happy now, Chris Packham? See what you've started?
Posted by Jason Carter on 2 November 2010 - 1:11pm.
Erstwhile nature type Chris Packham successfully snuck a number of Smiths song titles into his links on BBC's Springwatch the other year. All well and good.
However, it appears that one of the officers involved in the controversial shooting of barrister Mark Saunders thought that a similar tactic was called for when giving evidence under oath:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/02/mark-saunders-song-titles
Now, the question remains: What song titles do you think he attempted to sneak under the judicial radar?
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Shot throught the heart
And he's to blame
He gives police a bad name.
Breakin' the law,
Breakin' the law!
It doesn't say what the song title were
it could have been a coincidence
Oh hang on
"We are keeping view all along the watchtower. This guy was crazy in love, had no diggity and we concluded he was the mayor of simpleton. The Boss told us we were being held up without a gun but we knew he was The Joker."
and so on....
The Greatest
was during the Boy George/Male escort trial when his lawyer asked him "Did you really want to hurt him ?
OK am I being far too po faced
Ok am I being a little po faced when i see pissing about on a tele program as one thing but giving evidence in a case {where the state sanctions you to deal with situations with deadly force ( btw I have no problem with that concept )} and someone has died as slightly worrying .
I have done my time in morgues ect where " dark humour" is a release but when it came to the serious stuff the toys were packed away.
No comment here is aimed as a critique of any of the above comments .
I fought the law(yer)
and the law(yer) (didn't) win.
'Fuck my old boots'???
More info online now
My guess is that the last one was the giveaway.
That can't be right can it?
Is anyone else finding this a little hard to believe. What a bizarre selection of songs to choose. You would need a very strange taste in music to come up with these. Tracks by an obscure NY indie band, a disco queen, ageing UK punks and Chris de Burgh.
The fact that a police officer used of the expression 'fuck my old boots' in a dead man's inquest sounds more of a cause for concern.
Chris Packham? Pah!
I bow to no-one for inappropriate crushes on BBC wildlife presenter, Mr P, but surely this was pioneered by the England World Cup squad in 1998?
Who can forget* Gareth Southgate telling Bob Wilson that the training camp was 'hardly Club Tropicana'? Tony Adams telling the world that he was 'so excited, and he just can't hide it'?
*Most of you?
M'lud
In the 1990's, one of Danny Baker's phone-in topics was "How you've made your job more interesting". I'm pretty sure that working song titles into proceedings was mentioned, but I also remember a policeman saying that he and his colleagues would swap a list of random words which they would have to work into their statements in court. The example he gave was the word "walnut" - "The bullet entered the victim creating a wound about the size and shape of a walnut."
There's a time and place
... for gallows humour.
This isn't it.
By that I mean in court
...not the Word Blog.
In the Word Blog is fine - bring it on.
Is it not true
that lawyers often bet each other that they can't get obscure words into their closing addresses to juries in cases?
honestly its one law for some and,er, the same for the others