Why Are People So Pig Headed?

[DangerUXD]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21496566
2 in jail over an SP30, he's raving to try and get her to take the points, she's raving to take them and grass them both up! Words fail me over these imbeciles! What is most frightening of all though is that it seems to be typical of politicians! Never has the Big Yin seemed so wise!

[FredPuli43]

It still took 12 hours of deliberation for the new jury to reach a verdict. That's astonishing. 40 years ago, it was unheard of for a jury to take 12 hours for anything and "overnight juries" were almost unknown.

Are modern juries infected by the disease of indecision? Do they have no decision of importance in their own lives when they are confident enough to say yes or no, and that's final? Or have they got a committee mentality, where no individual dare decide anything and the body as a whole would really like to put the decision off to another day?

[craft1948]

I think Vicky Pryce has been hard done by here. The first jury were chucked out by the judge for being thick, and the second jury took 12 hours to find her guilty. I'd demand a recount............

[Svejk]

The trial of the 'Honourable' Constance Briscoe will shed more light on the 'hard done by' Vicky Price.
I believe when she first approached the police to drop her hubby in it she said his secretary took the points.
You'd have thought a judge could have pointed out the slight flaw in her story.
Were they drunk? Had Huhne previously done something similar with secretary?
Interesting times.

[FredPuli43]

That she had named someone else as having taken points for him, did emerge at the trial. This claim was slightly discredited by the woman named never having held a driving licence !