It’s a subject that he thinks about a lot and features in the song “Crime Doesn’t Pay” , once on his first album “6ft 2 girls” as a Reggae track, and on his second album “ Delicate Instrument”, as a West Coast Californian version recorded during his time spent in California as sound engineer for Jim Messina . The song was originally written by Eric in the States having read a short piece in the local newspaper in Santa Barbara about a Rasta woman who had secreted a frozen chicken under her hat and tried to get through the check - out in the supermarket. She collapsed due to the thing freezing up her cranium and it bounced out of her hat as she hit the floor. The manager of the supermarket decided to prosecute her, despite all the people in the line offering to pay for the chicken on her behalf, his reason being: “ I wanted her to realise, and others, that Crime Doesn’t Pay”