{"id":1199,"date":"2010-08-09T12:39:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2010-08-09T12:39:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:39:44","slug":"when-the-same-thing-has-two-meanings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/08\/when-the-same-thing-has-two-meanings\/","title":{"rendered":"When The Same Thing Has Two Meanings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reading about today&#8217;s sentencing of the complete dimwit who accepted the keys to a Ferrari F430 Spider &#8211; (that was not his) &#8211; from a valet parking attendant from Melbourne&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crowncasino.com.au\/\">Crown Casino<\/a> in May this year, I found an interesting comparison between the two major newspaper outlets in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/thief-who-stole-350000-ferrari-from-crown-gets-jail-20100809-11s0f.html\">this article from The Age<\/a>, the culprit was found guilty, and &#8220;jailed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/no-jail-for-flemington-ferrari-thief-adam-ramsay\/story-e6frf7kx-1225902937469\">this Herald Sun article<\/a>, the same culprit was found guilty, but &#8220;not jailed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So which is it, was he jailed, or was he not jailed?  Technically, he was.  He was jailed for four months, to be served concurrently with an existing 35-month sentence for an unrelated matter &#8211; so he&#8217;ll serve no additional time.  Interesting that the same result can be interpreted in two completely different ways!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reading about today&#8217;s sentencing of the complete dimwit who accepted the keys to a Ferrari F430 Spider &#8211; (that was not his) &#8211; from a valet parking attendant from Melbourne&#8217;s Crown Casino in May this year, I found an interesting comparison between the two major newspaper outlets in Melbourne. From this article from The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[269,530],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-heraldsun","tag-theage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}