wergild | Write Out Loud

Here’s one for the moral philosophers among you.

While I was bending over tethering my bike up at the supermarket, a young lady, possibly the worse for drink I shouldn’t wonder, poked her finger up my bum.

Now I would have thought this constituted sexual harassment under the laws of the land. But I am not a litigious person and under Coopey’s Law, which has its provenance in the Anglo-Saxon concept of wergild, I would have thought this should entitle me to poke my finger up another lady’s bum.

N’est ce pas?