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To: DMaA who wrote (11544)	9/10/2006 11:19:38 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 14758

I am glad to know there are some that would make his life miserable, given the opportunity!

To: DMaA who wrote (11544)	9/11/2006 7:54:43 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

Mother fined for swearing at gang of trouble-makers (Britain has flushed itself down the toilet) telegraph ^ \| 9/10/06 \| jasper copping telegraph.co.uk A mother of two has been fined for swearing at yobs who terrorised her neighbourhood. Donna Appleyard, 32, finally snapped after months of misery in which the youths jumped over fences, trampled through gardens and shouted and swore at residents. Ms Appleyard said she had made several complaints to police about the gang outside her home in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, but no officers had been to visit her to take the issue further. Instead, she found herself under investigation when officers received a complaint from a 13-year-old girl, after Ms Appleyard finally lost her temper and pleaded with her tormenters: "Please, just f*** off". Two weeks later, officers called at her house and issued her with the fine. Ms Appleyard said: "I was at the end of my tether and I admit I swore at one of them. But that's nothing compared to what my neighbours and I have suffered. "When the police came I thought it was because I had complained. I never dreamed they had come to arrest me. "I'm really angry that we've had to put up with this behaviour for almost a year, and then you can be taken to court and fined for shouting back at them." Ms Appleyard was given an £80 fixed penalty notice following the incident on March 30. However, she refused to pay and was taken to court last month, when magistrates raised the sum to £120, which she must now pay or face a jail term. ............. Sergeant Neil Haley, from West Yorkshire police, defended the force's actions. He said: "We appreciate that anti-social behaviour can be frustrating for people but they should not take the law into their own hands."