Local press printing personal stuff...

[GarageFlower]

Fucking fuming.

There was an argumebt at my house about a month ago that ended up with family members pinning me down and me lashing out and, regretabbly, catching one of my siblings. It was all very heat if the moment and I was under the influence of a few different substances which altered my perception and the way I acted.

I was arrested after all this and after going through the courts pleading guilty all the way I've been sentenced to a 9 month community order with 6 months drug rehabilitation requirement. This was my first offence also.

It is very much seen that this incident was 100 percent me in the wrong as I was on drugs etc but it wasn't that black but I could understand I did wrong and that I didn't really have any ground to stand on.

The local press however have took it upon them self to publish my name, age, address and said basically I'm a druggy woman beater (I admit I do have drug issues but I am far from what you may describe as a bag head) Now you're expected to sort yourself out but people reading that BULL SHIT will think they know what happened and what I'm like.

Everything I do at the minute seems like one step forward two steps back I'm sick of it.

 

[maxalfie]

I had something similar years ago. I was in a very bad place after my wife passed away and I hit the booze in a big way.
I had tried to hang myself and my mate found me & called an ambulance which turned up along with the police. Because I was extremely drunk I was being violent & abusive towards the police and ended up punching one of them.
Ended up going to court for the assault and that week the local paper printed 'One in the face for would be saviour' all about the assault & suicide attempt.
This paper is delivered for free through most peoples door and I can never forget the embarrassment & shame I felt going into work knowing that everyone had read the story.
Thankfully no one spoke about it to me apart from one close friend and eventually they all had something else to gossip about.

 

[GarageFlower]

I'm really sorry to hear that maxalife. Hope you're doing okay now bro!

It was a shit thing to go through at the time, and how it's printed, well let's just say ain't how it happened.

Just pisses me off as they just put it out there for all to see without a second thought about how it might actually affect the rehabilitation of this bad person which comitted this atrocity.

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

How things are printed are NEVER how they happened. People, like yourself, like myself, only really get to realize this when they are personally involved.

Today's news is tomorrows fish and chip paper. Keep that in your head.

 

[maxalfie]

Yeah I'm good now thanks.
The reporters who write the court cases up for the paper don't spare a second thought for the folk they are writing about and they quite often like to jazz the story up a bit to make it appear worse than it actually was.
Unfortunately there is nothing you can do about it now and folk will think whatever they want to buy they will have something else to talk about soon enough.
All you can do is just prove to folk you aren't the person the paper has made you out to be.
I found out that I was more worried about than other folk were. Sure they gossiped about me for a while but they have their own problems to worry about and soon forget about whatever they have read.