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[liadnan]

I received my first death threat this morning, from a defendant against whom I'd been successful. Ex-policeman built a la brick shithouse.

I feel so proud.

I'm not actually too bothered about it, though it does occur to me that it would be trivially easy for someone with friends who have access to NCIS, the PNC and the full electoral register to hunt me down...

Plus I had to take a remarkably expensive mini-cab to reach court due to the steenking Northern line. Cabbie offered to write a receipt for 150 percent of the fare, but I'm honest as the day is long me.

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[qkellie.livejournal.com]

YIKES!

[liadnan]

Ah, these things happen all the time to criminal and family practitioners, though they are less common in the more sedate worlds of commercial and property law.

[eccles.livejournal.com]

I guess you have to file a report on each threat, yes?

[liadnan]

Yeah right. Don't want those PNC/NCIS details to be out of date...

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

Well, still! Be careful and everything!

I feel so proud.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Woohoo...?

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

Christ. I wouldn't worry too much (oh, you said you aren't) - IME people who *say* they're going to get you aren't the ones you have to worry about.

What a tit, however.

[liadnan]

I'm inclined to agree.

On an only tangentially linked note, my brother, living in your fair city, has now been burgled on each of four successive nights.... rang him up yesterday to commiserate for the previous three and he told me that it was now four as last night they'd taken the car...

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

You are *joking*?! Which part of the city does he live in again, I'm not sure if you ever told me?

Man, that's harsh.

[liadnan]

I don't actually know offhand, and may indeed have lost his address, as usual.

Mum reckons it's a grudge thing because he works for a refugee charity, me I just think it's scrotes.

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

I think your version sounds more likely. Very bold though.

Sympathies to him, anyway.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Scrotes?

[liadnan]

Generic term of abuse. See also, nowadays, under "Pikey", though that is in my view somewhat racist as it originally meant gypsies.
Scrote from scrotum possibly?

Re: I feel so proud.

[liadnan]

Now I won't feel ashamed when I hear the wild tales of my crim/fam practitioner friends...

[eccles.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who used to live in the Radford area of Nottingham. Once he caught his nextdoor neighbour breaking in.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

I like the term. Is it considered terribly impolite or just moderately impolite?

[liadnan]

Oh, and the notrious popbitch (http://www.popbitch.co.uk/ ) uses "council" as a fairly comparable term, which is analagous to Scottish "schemie" (one who lives in local authority housing). Articla on the etymology of terms of abuse and social class forthcoming perhaps...

Re: I feel so proud.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

True, it is an honestly earned threat. This might be the right to mention that I have received 2 death threats and 5 kidnapping threats due to my *own* actions.... :)

[liadnan]

Very abusive, not normally used to people's faces.
Just noticed the popbitch url below should be .com by the way.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the url -I'll peruse it at leisure. And I look forward to reading that article. :)

[ailbhe]

It's trivially easy to hunt most people down. With big pointy sticks!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kiki_/]

You haven't really made it in the world until you've received your first death threat. Congratulations!

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

Proud indeed. Everyone should be SOMEONE's personal Antichrist. Bravo!

But do watch your back in the dark, sir. People is crazy, you know. And the people that hurt other people actually are the ones who say they will ...

[liadnan]

Oh Lord, I wouldn't waste too much tme on Popbitch, it's 90 percent lies about dull C list celebs. Kind of Anti-Hello. (I get it emailed to me weekly...)

Holy shit

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

Death threats, no matter what form they come in, are still distinctly out of your normal everyday existence don't you think? I mean, is this guy out of custody? What was he charged/sentenced for? ... and, do you take cases for both prosecution *and* defense in Brit law?

Here in California the Court Judges, Family law and Prosecuting attorneys [we call ours District Attorneys] getting the most death/bomb threats... we Public Defenders [Court appointed indigent defense attorneys] rarely get them... except for one of our former nearly inept attorneys... whose client personalized his distaste by attaching a bomb to said attorney's car, necessitating the evacuation of our parking lot... no kaboom...

The only other scare we had was when one of our clients was let into the main office [by a silly silly clerk whom I scolded later] even though he had been waving his knife around in the waiting room...

By the time the local gendarmes arrived to take said client into custody I was in the midst of a smashing migraine and [amazingly] convinced them to take our [closed head injured] client to a mental health holding facility as opposed to the general population lock up because he really wasn't dangerous... well, except for the knife thing...

I'm not at all a fan of threats, real, pretend or perceived... and I'd be interested in what the ex-policeman's mates think of him... before I got [even more] worried...

I agree with previous admonishments... Watch yer Back!

love, aunti v

Re: Holy shit

[liadnan]

Ah, no 'twasn't a criminal case: I almost never do crim. work. Was a posession action againsta tenant.
But criminal practitioners, at least at first, do both defence and prosecution work.

I'm fairly sure I shall be fine though.

[etherealfionna.livejournal.com]

As Marcus said, with the addition that when I asked for a definition of the term, IIRC Rik added that they normally wear baseball caps *balanced* on top of their heads.