Might be a dumb thought but surely dudes back in the Anglo Saxon era used to get ACL’s? Like imagine running into a battle field with speed and snapping your ACL just to see a dude running at you with a sword at full speed. They must of been thinking ACL’s were black magic.
It’s payday for Nick, 22, who has just finished working from home in the windowless room he rents in Epsom, Surrey, for £950 per month.
His graduate job that pays £27,000 (not enough to live on, but enough for student loan repayments to start) is taxed 20%. Still, when he gets an invite from a friend to go out for a “swift one” he can’t say no.
He jumps into his 2014 Audi A3 and drives to the pub in Sutton (not forgetting the £13.50 ULEZ charge as he crosses the border).
He arrives at the pub and orders a pint. It costs £8.50 (10% of that is tax). He sits with his friend for 45 minutes, and when he finishes his pint decides to go home.
He jumps into his car and on the way home is pulled over for driving recklessly (23mph in a 20mph zone).
He is breathalysed, arrested, and imprisoned for longer than the average foreign rapist.
As he sits in the cell he shares with three other men he is thankful. At least the £263.95 of tax he paid that day is paying for the driving lessons of Afghan refugees, and they’re safe… they don’t drink.