Riot Consequence

Friend of mine is a courier. Not by choice, but when his previous employer went up against the wall, he had to find alternate employment.

Please don’t think that courier work means just swanning around the country in a van delivering bits and pieces to grateful customers. It is hard graft: dealing with the traffic, keeping an eye out for speed cameras, bored policemen with speed guns and suicidal cyclists.

My friend has to pay for the lease of the van, diesel and of course insurance which is a lot higher than yours or mine as he is a “commercial” driver.

Therefore he has to do a minimum number of drops just to cover his costs. In order to make a decent living, he has to do many deliveries, or maybe a few longer distance ones.

All in all, he just about keeps his head above water. 

So imagine how he felt when he was woken up on Monday night by the Fire Brigade to be told that his van had been torched. 

Reading has this special breed of morons. They believe that they are the big men and can match anything that their big Neanderthal brothers can do in the Smoke. I see these specimens in the West Stand at Madejski Stadium during a Reading home match. Spotty-face gits who have a higher zit count than IQ, shouting out abuse to the away supporters.

Anyhow, some of these sub-humans decided to have their own riot resulting in a small number of arson incidents, which included my mate’s van.

Thanks to the action of some of these amoebas, my friend has now lost his no-claims bonus, has had to pay for the transfer of insurance to the new van and has lost 2 days work.

On top of that, the lease company, being typically money grabbing, have told my friend that he has to pay for the lease of both the new van and the burnt out one until the insurance company sorts out the claim, and we all know how eager insurance companies are to give out money.

The upshot is that my friend can no longer afford to carry on.

Thanks to the actions of some piffling, moronic little slug turds a good friend of mine will now be struggling.

Assuming that the police are actually going to catch these cretins, what will happen to them? Some idealistic solicitor will go to the Beak and give a bleeding-heart story of social injustice and all the little bastards will get are slaps on wrist and an army of social workers and other do-gooders wasting their times trying to make the poor lambs lives better.

In the meantime, my friend, who has worked his entire life, and through no fault of his own, is totally buggered. He will not get anyone representing him to get the insurance company to pull their fingers out or to negotiate with the lease company to be reasonable. No-one will assist him in his plight, no government money will be made available for him.

 A completed disgrace...