Why are criminals never as forthcoming as those on TV?

When I was a kid watching Scooby Doo and the likes there would be some terrible man doing despicable things, then Scooby and the gang would catch him red handed following which he would come over all guilty and confess everything.

Same with programmes like Poirot and Miss Marple - they would deduce who had done the deed before the bad guy spilled the beans at the first opportunity, even explaining away the things the detective couldn’t understand.

I read about this on the BBC’s website yesterday and wondered what all the fuss was about - another footballer being banned for driving, so what?

Then I read on, and the sheer craziness of it all made me smile.

Bob Malcom, a Derby County player who was on loan at Queens Park Rangers at the time, was in court after being charged for being asleep in his car - sounds like a strange reason to take someone to court on the face of it, but there’s more.

Every now and again I see stories on the news about people being trapped in places and they give me the collywobbles.

I’ve always thought that being trapped under some fallen building after an earthquake or something similar must be the worst - how terrifyingly awful must it be to be stuck in somewhere totally dark and alone, but worst of all being unable to move?  That must be the worst part - being somewhere really claustrophobic is bad enough but being pinned down must be much, much worse.  Being at least able to move your limbs would ease some of the torture.

This must be the weirdest story in a long time - probably since the canoe man :

A pair of twins who were adopted by separate families as babies got married without knowing they were brother and sister, a peer told the House of Lords.

A court annulled the British couple’s union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord Alton said.

The peer - who was told of the case by a High Court judge involved - said the twins felt an “inevitable attraction”.

I was all prepared to have a right old rant about something and now I can’t really be bothered expending all that energy on something that won’t make any difference anyway!

So instead I’ll just lay down the simple facts.

On Wednesday I was in the car most of the day and was listening to Radio 1 - not normally a bad thing, but their coverage of a news story really got my back up.  Every hour they would lead with a small snippet of a story which sounded as if it was pretty bad, but then later on they played a longer version which essentially took away the bad element and made it all understandable and effectively made their story null and void.