Musings from the Merse
Friday, May 19, 2006
Blogspot has a clever little sitemeter which can tell Huttonian how many people have 'visited' the Blog, for how long and from where-not precisely I hasten to add and not who-your secret viewings are safe with/from me. But it can also tell what was the favourite bit of archived material that bloggees want to see again. The Winner is....for 2005/2006 : the following story from the Scotsman about a Scottish lady with one of the earlier and less usual ASBOs A reference to this story with its rather sad ending has been visited via Musings about 100 times in the last 9 months. Apparently some people out there can't get enough women in skimpy underwear answering the door. It seems rather odd that the poor Sheriff who had to deal with Ms. Shepherd was subsequently found in a Sauna wearing only a towel. What is so shameful about this? Towels I would have thought are normal sauna garb -indeed towelless is surely ok in those surroundings. Perhaps if he had been in the nude that would have been alright then-and ditto with Ms S if she had gone to the door in the altogether?
As did one woman ,in similar circumstance, who had to apologise to an unexpected caller by explaining that she was expecting the milkman.
Woman told not to answer door in undies charged with breaching ASBO
ROBERT MCAULAY
A WOMAN banned by a sheriff from answering her front door in skimpy underwear has been accused of breaching her anti-social behaviour order (ASBO).
Caroline Shepherd, 27, had been told to cover up by the shamed former sheriff Hugh Neilson, after her neighbours had complained about her behaviour.
As well as telling Shepherd to keep her clothes on, the ASBO also banned her from making noise, shouting and swearing, holding drunken parties, abusing neighbours and letting her friends use her garden as a toilet.
But now Shepherd, from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, faces a return to court to face two charges that she breached the terms of the order issued last year.
At a hearing yesterday, Shepherd, who was not in court, pled not guilty to two charges of breaching her ASBO.
She denies that in January this year while acting together with an unknown male she threw a brick at her own front window. Shepherd also rejects a claim that she verbally abused her next-door neighbour, Tracy Anderson, and argued in the street while under the influence of drink or drugs.
Sheriff Jackie Stewart ordered Shepherd to appear in person at a later date to answer the allegations.
Earlier this month Shepherd revealed she had been ordered to cover up before opening her door to callers. The ASBO issued against her stipulated that she should not answer the front door wearing only her underwear.
The sheriff who told Shepherd to keep her clothes on later quit, after being found in a sauna parlour wearing nothing but a towel.
Would n't happen in the Merse.
As did one woman ,in similar circumstance, who had to apologise to an unexpected caller by explaining that she was expecting the milkman.
Woman told not to answer door in undies charged with breaching ASBO
ROBERT MCAULAY
A WOMAN banned by a sheriff from answering her front door in skimpy underwear has been accused of breaching her anti-social behaviour order (ASBO).
Caroline Shepherd, 27, had been told to cover up by the shamed former sheriff Hugh Neilson, after her neighbours had complained about her behaviour.
As well as telling Shepherd to keep her clothes on, the ASBO also banned her from making noise, shouting and swearing, holding drunken parties, abusing neighbours and letting her friends use her garden as a toilet.
But now Shepherd, from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, faces a return to court to face two charges that she breached the terms of the order issued last year.
At a hearing yesterday, Shepherd, who was not in court, pled not guilty to two charges of breaching her ASBO.
She denies that in January this year while acting together with an unknown male she threw a brick at her own front window. Shepherd also rejects a claim that she verbally abused her next-door neighbour, Tracy Anderson, and argued in the street while under the influence of drink or drugs.
Sheriff Jackie Stewart ordered Shepherd to appear in person at a later date to answer the allegations.
Earlier this month Shepherd revealed she had been ordered to cover up before opening her door to callers. The ASBO issued against her stipulated that she should not answer the front door wearing only her underwear.
The sheriff who told Shepherd to keep her clothes on later quit, after being found in a sauna parlour wearing nothing but a towel.
Would n't happen in the Merse.
Comments:
On reflection 'Parlour' may be the key word here where more than fluffy towels and steam are on offer?
Being a clean-living naïve kind of person, I don't know what you could possibly mean ;-)
Anyway lack of saunas in the Merse must inexorably lead to lack of sauna parlours n'est pas ? Perhaps it's a line of business that deserves more investigation.
Anyway lack of saunas in the Merse must inexorably lead to lack of sauna parlours n'est pas ? Perhaps it's a line of business that deserves more investigation.
Indeed. Hutton Think Tank ( Sex, Sauna and Steam Section) are on the case. But it is all up to Market Forces-Sauna parlours, lack of, does not dominate conversation at The Cross Inn.
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