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— anti-social behavior order — beating Lionel's previous record by a week.
Lionel has changed his last name, we learn, to Asbo, which stands for Anti-Social Behavior Order.
Thomas began to research the Anti-Social Behavior Order, a controversial penalty in the U.K. which amounts to a restraining order.
The readers' suggestions included "Dipso, Fatso, Bingo, Asbo, Tesco" (Asbo stands for "anti-social behavior order," a law-enforcement tool, while Tesco is a ubiquitous supermarket chain); "Once Mighty Empire, Slightly Used"; "At Least We're Not French"; and "We Apologize for the Inconvenience".
Distinguished by the surname he assumed to celebrate his having received, at age 3, the Anti-Social Behavior Order (introduced in 1998 by Prime Minister Tony Blair's Crime and Disorder Act), Lionel divides his time among Extortion With Menaces, Receiving Stolen Property and their inevitable result: prison.
In non-theoretical real life, he's currently one month into two-and-a-half years for disobeying an ASBO [an anti-social behavior order] that forbade him from-no surprises here-walking around naked.
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The girl can safely experiment with away-from-home behavior, ordering "just what I like" in the dining car and slyly slipping five sugar cubes from the sugar bowl into her coin purse without retribution from the kindly waiter.
This is the same area whose mayor, Robin Wales, wrote in a column for the local newspaper about cracking down on the local homeless by issuing "anti-social behavior orders"; some 28 in the last year.
In 1998, Tony Blair ushered into being ASBOs, antisocial-behavior orders.
Do you restrict their behavior in order to prevent them from possibly being hurt?
"All throughout life, you need civil codes of behavior in order to get along in whatever you do," he said.
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