Jet skier jailed in th IOM

[Slowboat35]

I think even attempting such a trip on a jetski merits the penalty. Does rank irresponsible stupidity know no bounds?

 

[Never Grumble]

I think even attempting such a trip on a jetski merits the penalty. Does rank irresponsible stupidity know no bounds?

I was thinking he should be given an award for a most adventurous trip

 

[Capt Popeye]

That's nothing for a Scot.

Apparently they're quite happy to walk 500 miles. And then walk 500 more.

Yep looks like a basis for a Song that does .................. walked 500 miles and then ..............

 

[Lucky Duck]

I think even attempting such a trip on a jetski merits the penalty. Does rank irresponsible stupidity know no bounds?

Are you advocating the French system where boats are categorised on how far they can travel?

 

[doris]

Are you advocating the French system where boats are categorised on how far they can travel?

Just because a jet ski floats doesn't mean its a boat!!

 

[Easticks28]

The things a hap will do to visit 'the Devil's Ditch'

 

[Juan Twothree]

That's nothing for a Scot.

Apparently they're quite happy to walk 500 miles. And then walk 500 more.

"The precise distance may not be exactly 500 miles" - The Disclaimers

 

[LONG_KEELER]

I was thinking he should be given an award for a most adventurous trip

And he will probably sell the book and films rights to Mills & Boon.

 

[Daydream believer]

Are you advocating the French system where boats are categorised on how far they can travel?

Does that include overloaded RIBS heading north, because, if so, they do not seem very keen to enforce the rules. The French navy claiming that they can only escort them to the border & not turn them back !!!!

 

[masterofnone]

Unless of course you've got a shit load of money or friends in government.
Michelle Mone weds Doug Barrowman after moving nuptials to Isle of Man last minute

 

[dansaskip]

First Mate and I returned from NZ on a UK Government sponsored repatriation flight late May.

Perhaps I was on that same flight as you Rotax? I quite agree the NZ govt knew how to treat the situation and I was quite amazed at how lax things were when I arrived back in Heathrow. I am quite envious now of my friends who remained in NZ and are now enjoying a normal life whilst here we are still in lockdown , well tier 3 which is lockdown in all but name after 10 months. Go figure. Anyway normally I used to love sailing across the IOM a lovely place and they are doing the right thing to keep IOM covid free and if it means jailing numpties so be it

 

[LadyInBed]

I can't help thinking that jail - even four weeks, which presumably means he'll do two, is a bit excessive

I wonder if he will be allowed conjugal visits ??

 

[LittleSister]

'Deputy high bailiff Christopher Arrowsmith said McLaughlan’s “deliberate and intentional attempt to circumnavigate” the restrictions had posed a risk to himself and the island’s residents'.

 

[ashtead]

Just wait until the next one hits a Redjet-straight into HMP Isle of Wight (the prison formerly called Albany etc) .

 

[alan_d]

Yes. I saw that.

Feel a soft spot for him though .

He didn't give up and then walked 15 miles to see his love.

If only Leander had been arrested the first time he swam the Hellespont he (and Hero) might have lived to enjoy their old age.

 

[Wandering Star]

My sister lives on the IOM, she returned from a holiday in Egypt in April I think with COVID and at that time there were 120+ recorded cases on the island (I looked it up). She recovered from the COVID but has just passed away fom Lymphoma Cancer. She was attending the hospital on he IOM on & off for the last 3 months Bute’s only diagnosed the Cancer 3 was ago at which point she flown to the Clatterbridge Ospital I Liverpool whet she died last week. He was 66 years old. Her cremation is on the 22nd bu her family livin in the U.K. plus her siblings, have been told they can attend the service standing apart from everyone else and must leave the island immediately afterwards without any contac with anyone living on he island.

we”re very upset but understand the situation and accept it. It’s a shame our government haven’t acted similarly being an island nation..

 

[Mr Googler]

if they left Whithorn......and hit a red jet......they really would be ‘off course” ???

Bit harsh sending them to Albany!

more of a Camp Hill offence.....that’s where the young, thick ones went. Pink jet......bloody millennials

 

[Jamie Dundee]

 

[Stemar]

I still think the reactions of our government, for want of a better word, to Covid can be characterised in four words: Too little, too late.

Looking at the news yesterday, I was wondering if they're preparing us for a new edict:

 

[savageseadog]

Birching only ceased on the IOM in 1976.