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Originally Posted by Ephemerella
A myth RPS. I'm sure most prosecutions have been for the prepared 'jam'; actually it's more like an unique, pungent orange coloured cheese. The scent lingers and is impossible to mask from any decent bailiff of the old school.
No doubt lack of recent prosecutions are more probably due to an ineptly trained, and naive, bailiffing force, with an increasingly PC agenda, than in any reduction in its use.  |
I must admit to this one being a long running view, but realistically... the chances of the type of person using such substance being able to afford to defend themselves with a proper barrister is zero ... and why would they bother with such silly fines and sentences. I would love to see how someone would properly argue that an artificial substance, or a natural substance changed beyond physical recognition, would be still the original natural "roe" "object" intended by law. I have not used the stuff since I was a kid, though a few years ago I did show one bright yound lad a few things with a pan on the stove. Mine wasn't like cheese, but then I didn't use vinegar!
We could do with a few old time bailiffs, people who could easily see the ***** marks of a foul hooked fish, not like some of the clever dick "been at it five minutes" and know it all officers/"monkey grinders/salmon angling instructors" around today who don't want to prosecute people who drag fish out sideways....for lack of evidence.