Education can get you into trouble!

An awfully pleasant day to you. You are just in time for a spot of Typhoo Tea and a bit of crumpet...I mean a virtual English muffin! I'm afraid I must relate to you today how education can indeed be your downfall.

Because the words were not those ordinarily used by vandals keying a car's paint, Newcastle, England police looked immediately to a better-educated vandal.

They arrested University of Newcastle professor Stephen Graham, who had been a prominent critic of neighborhood parking rules that allowed outsiders to use the few spaces on his street. Scratched into several outsiders' luxury cars' exteriors were words such as "arbitrary" and "really wrong" and "very silly" (as opposed to the usual crude vandal references to anatomy and maternal promiscuity).

Graham was arrested over the late-night wrecking spree that caused £20,000 damage by scrawling words onto 24 cars in a street near his house in the affluent suburb of Jesmond, Newcastle.

Among the cars damaged were a Mercedes SLK, BMW 520, a BMW X5 and a Land Rover.
A resident rang police in the early hours of Bank Holiday Monday, when he spotted a man in black shorts and a black jacket crouching down next to a car.

"I say, ol' chappie. Would you mind not arbitrarily parking your merc in front of my residence. I think it is really wrong of you to do so as it deprives me of the privilege of using said spot to park my own vehicle. Not only is it very silly of you to park here but it shows a complete disregard for decency and a definite display of lack of proper breeding. Thanks awfully.  Now piss off and bloody well park somewhere else and I do hope that upon arrival at your own flat, your mother comes out from under your front porch and bites you, you misbegotten prodigy of a syphilitic wanker !"

See ya, eh!

Bob