[Chris O'Carroll]

No 4272
By Tricia Parrott
Essex Police commented after the Vicky Pryce conviction: “We hope this conviction serves as a timely reminder to motorists.” We want compers to send in similar examples of bathos, in regard to any dramatic or historical event, past or present.
Max 150 words by 18 April comp@newstatesman.co.uk

[Rob Stuart]

Gosh, this is a dreary one. Can anyone be bothered?

[Brian Allgar]

No, especially since it was only four weeks ago that they set a competition with Vicky Pryce in the subject. (I didn't enter that one either.)

I think I'll go back to hibernating now. Would someone please wake me up when a decent competition comes along?

[Chris O'Carroll]

On the other hand, the less attractive the comp, the fewer entries it draws, the better the odds for anyone who shrugs, grumbles, and submits something.

[Douglas G. Brown]

I just Googled Ms. Pryce, and it seems that she got a few months in the jug for taking the blame for her hubby's bad driving?

Is that all ... 3 hots and a cot for dissembling to a traffic cop?

Doesn't Merrie Olde England have any Ministers or MP's who have driven a car off a bridge, drowned a woman, and gotten a $75.00 fine for leaving a scene of an accident?

[John Whitworth]

No it wasn't his bad driving. She took his speeding points. Or rather he said she was driving the car when she wasn't there.. It's a disgrace she went to prison at all. The story is quite complicated. Suffice to say he is a shit cubed and she was getting revenge on him because he left her for a youngish lesbian. I'm not making this up. The newspapers compared her to Medea, though I didn't notice she had cut up any of her children. Indeed they were in total agreement with her as to his total shittiness. Anyway, take it from me she is a good egg and he deserves to be impaled.