Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!

/off to rtfa

Qualifications?

Rape, murder, arson, and rape.

Just don't get stuck with the father rapers.

Its *Hedley*

Steve Medcraft of People Against Lenient Sentencing said: "People under financial stress are being jailed to let pedophiles and drug pushers walk the streets."

So THAT'S why they're jailing these people...it all makes sense now.

And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench.

Sounds like his situation legitimately sucked, but you don't sign a contract if you can't live up to it.

I don't see the big issue here.

He did something illegal. Its not anyone else's fault but his if he can't pay his damn mortgage, boo hoo. And his mom dying has nothing to do with this story, other then to gain the sympathy vote for the deadbeat.

Go rent you bum

Damnit, Malinki. You beat me to it.

No sympathy for douchbagery

He kept calling it "his" house, but he had a mortgage on it. I don't think he quite understands the concept of ownership.

Demetrius: Qualifications?

Rape, murder, arson, and rape.

You said Rape twice.

/i know where this is going

I bet they played him a song on the prison violin when they heard his story.

/why didn't he just live up to the terms of the agreement?

Some of you are pretty big dicks. Do you really think someone should be locked up due to a mortgage? No wonder we have the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

FTA: Mr Balogh said he had fallen behind in repayments because of problems with a business associate and a former personal partner.

"I was putting money into a joint account and believed the mortgage was being paid, but it wasn't," he said.

Well, after he loses his house I think he may be able to commit justifiable homicide/curb stomping.

No no no. The headline goes like this:

"What are you in for?"

"My lawyer farked me. What are you in for?"

"My bank farked me."

I thought they abolished debtor's pris--

Oh. Australia. Riiiight.

No, guys you are missing the point. It is not his fault any of this happened. Whenever something bad happens to you it is the government's fault for allowing it to happen or it is a corporation's fault for taking advantage of you. Clearly here this individual has been wronged! I mean, whose fault is it for not begin able to pay the mortgage this guy signed? Clearly not his! Lets just all get together and buy him a plane ticket so he can come on over to the good old US of A where you don't have to make mortgage payments if you don't want to and the government will provide for everything you need.

/didn't RTFA.
// but already know the story.

Paratech: Demetrius: Qualifications?

Rape, murder, arson, and rape.

You said Rape twice.

/i know where this is going

I like rape.

TheJoe03: Some of you are pretty big dicks. Do you really think someone should be locked up due to a mortgage? No wonder we have the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

he wasnt locked up for not defaulting on the mortgage, he was locked up for refusing to give up the house he couldn't afford. what did he think was going to happen? he wanted to occupy a home that didn't belong to him.

Death of Rats: Damnit, Malinki. You beat me to it.

It's 4/20
My powers are at their strongest on this day.

T-Luv: he wasnt locked up for not defaulting on the mortgage, he was locked up for refusing to give up the house he couldn't afford.

FTFA it sounds like a business partner may have run off with some of his money or something.

He's still an idiot, but perhaps not the typical "bought house on interest-only adjustable mortgage" type of idiot.

Jument: T-Luv: he wasnt locked up for not defaulting on the mortgage, he was locked up for refusing to give up the house he couldn't afford.

FTFA it sounds like a business partner may have run off with some of his money or something.

He's still an idiot, but perhaps not the typical "bought house on interest-only adjustable mortgage" type of idiot.


I totally agree, he should go after the bastard who took his money. However until he pays his bill he has no right to occupy the property and must vacate. The article also said he has had since 2006 (over a year) to get his affairs in order.

DreadnaughtZeta: I like rape.



/Mongo signed for it

I wonder when they'll get around to re-establishing debtor's prison? McCain's first term?

Legal experts have warned more home loan defaulters who refuse court orders to give up their homes will be found guilty of contempt of court and jailed.

How will they pay their debts if they are jailed?

/I call bullshiat

SphericalTime: I wonder when they'll get around to re-establishing debtor's prison? McCain's first term?

Mcain's, Hillary's, or Obama's, one of them.

A republicans wet dream. Sing it. GOP CEO's read this kind of shiat to their little private school imp spawn to help them sleep.

Can i lie on a mortgage application and then keep the house forever? I didn't rape anyone so why not?

Failing_Junk: Can i lie on a mortgage application and then keep the house forever? I didn't rape anyone so why not?

Happens all the time. It's called a, "Liar's Loan."

SphericalTime: I wonder when they'll get around to re-establishing debtor's prison? McCain's first term?

Yeah... Wow 14 days held contempt of court. So unheard of... If you don't pay for the place you live for over a year, they will kick you out. It happens all the time. If you signed a contract and a judge rules in a court of law that you no longer have a right to live there, you gotta go. If you dont leave willingly, the judge can hold you in contempt until you comply with the court order. I'm sure if you were the person that was owed 300 grand, you would like your property back so you could start getting positive cash flow. Since private citizens don't have the right to remove people with their own two hands, they use the court system.

/he wasn't put in jail for having a debt, he was held in contempt of court for refusing to give up something that wasn't rightfully his.

//do i need to say it in all caps?

Father rapers?

Sun God: Happens all the time. It's called a, "Liar's Loan."

Was it inconvenient to read the whole sentence before responding to it?

Wouldn't the cops physically removing him from his premises be a lot cheaper and faster than throwing him in jail for 2 weeks???

The judge is an idiot.

Not like the house can grow legs and run away. Bank repossesses house, auctions it off. New owner moves in. Tada.

Mr Balogh said he had fallen behind in repayments because of problems with a business associate and a former personal partner.

"I was putting money into a joint account and believed the mortgage was being paid, but it wasn't," he said.

If female, lesson is never trust biatches to not screw you.
If male, lesson is never trust guys who are screwing you in the ass.

FTA: Mr Balogh, who is a mortgage adviser, said he had been treated as a criminal "when I was only trying to save my house".

He knew what he was getting into.

/was a mortgage consultant for a couple of years. Quit because watching people sell their souls just to own a house kinda sucked.

Should've just tried lying down in front of the bulldozers. We'll see who rusts first.

Failing_Junk: Sun God: Happens all the time. It's called a, "Liar's Loan."

Was it inconvenient to read the whole sentence before responding to it?

Not really. You asked two questions.

TheJoe03: Some of you are pretty big dicks. Do you really think someone should be locked up due to a mortgage? No wonder we have the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

I checked your profile, you claim to live in the US. This did not happen in the US. Now to the point, he was locked up for refusing to leave the house that was no longer his. As someone who has bought 2 houses that were on the foreclosure block and lived in them while fixing them up, I'd prefer the repo-ees left when the banks foreclosed.

He thought the mortgage was being paid but he was wrong. I got the shaft when one of my college roommates bounced out of school and left the other 2 housemates holding a 1 year apartment lease. A semi-painful lesson, but you should learn from these things.

That first repo I fixed up and flipped? The lady who bought it from me couldn't get a loan herself and had her ex-husband cosign with her. 9 months later, foreclosed.

I like this plan, at least now I know that when they lock me away for working my ass off and still being to poor to pay rent I'll have someplace to live where I'll even be able to have real food.

The rapists and murderers is kind of a turn off, well its still better then marriage.

gund: Wouldn't the cops physically removing him from his premises be a lot cheaper and faster than throwing him in jail for 2 weeks???

The judge is an idiot.

Not like the house can grow legs and run away. Bank repossesses house, auctions it off. New owner moves in. Tada.

No, the guy is an idiot. Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier for him to just give the house up after the court ordered him to? He ignored a court order and he was punished for it.

/Personal responsibility is a biatch!

TheJoe03: Some of you are pretty big dicks. Do you really think someone should be locked up due to a mortgage? No wonder we have the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

Technically according to the Britts you all are locked up anyways....

God, personal responsibility sucks. Lets outlaw that.

Logic 101: If this person doesn't pay me, I must imprison him, so that he has no means of paying me.

Aeonite: Father rapers?

You can get anything you want.

from TFA: He said that as an accredited mortgage consultant who had saved other people's homes from repossession, he should have handled his affairs differently.

hahaha

YixilTesiphon: Sounds like his situation legitimately sucked, but you don't sign a contract if you can't live up to it.

People do it all the time, but situations change. This is why long-term contracts in the form of mortgages etc. are stupid. Alternatives? I don't have any to offer, that's not my job, but it doesn't mean I have to believe that the present system is the best one.

I don't see the problem here. As has been repeatedly pointed out, he was trying to stay in a residence he didn't own, and wouldn't leave when asked, so the deterrent to get him to desist with his unlawful behavior necessarily had to be more salient, otherwise he would just keep doing it. It's not like he did hard time, it was two farking weeks.

As for those of you who don't think the guy did anything wrong and is undeserving of the jail senctence he got, let's try an illustration. Imagine you leave for a two week vacation, and while you are gone, I decide to move into your house and take up residence. You come back and ask me to leave, but I refuse. You call the police and they escort me out of the house, but as soon as they are gone, I just go back in. I try to reason with you, telling you I am too irresponsible to own a home of my own, so I want to stay in your place as its a nice house and you don't really use the back bedroom anyway. I remind you of how cruel and inhumane it is to just throw a person, who is just an innocent victim of circumstance, out into the street. It's the same thing, I am trying to reside in a home I don't own. How do yo deal with me when I choose to break the law in this manner? Same way the judge dealt with this guy.

Sun God: Logic 101: If this person doesn't pay me, I must imprison him, so that he has no means of paying me.

He wasn't jailed for not paying. He was jailed for not leaving the house that was no longer his, even after a court order to do so.

Maybe reading comprehension 101 should have come before logic 101.

ThrobblefootSpectre: Sun God: Logic 101: If this person doesn't pay me, I must imprison him, so that he has no means of paying me.

He wasn't jailed for not paying. He was jailed for not leaving the house that was no longer his, even after a court order to do so.

Maybe reading comprehension 101 should have come before logic 101.

Maybe sarcasm is why this was greenlit.