should people be arrested for offensive costumes?
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Burglary largely is a waste of time. I consider it a non religious miracle that after reporting a theft of a TV, a few months later I had two policemen turn up outside my door with £200 in a brown envelope and a receipt for me to sign.
Here's the empty space where me telly was. What is the police meant to do with that. They didn't do anything with it beside file some details.
What actually happened was a girl turned up to talk to the police about an abusive boyfriend and his activities off the record and happened to mention watching him steal a TV at a particular location. My TV. Just some words that actions couldn't be taken on but she decided to withdraw £200 and hand it in to be sent to me as a form of reparations. Boyfriend was still a piece of trash, believe he skipped his visa and vanished in London.
On the other hand, someone with a known location very clearly breaking the laws of the land. Well that's a very efficient use of time. Send a car round and have one in the bag by the afternoon.
Any complaints that it's a bad law are for the government.
The law is there to protect people not for the police to get easy wins. If people cannot feel safe in their homes then the police and the law has failed. At which point let people take the law into their own hands ala second amendment style.
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i wear my speedos everyday, sprermarkets and even spoons they love it.
Yes yes, always people saying this that and the other is the slippery slope to hell.
But that's being a fortune teller and the irony is that they make money from story telling not accurate predictions. The actual job title may be different.
Also that wasn't my home.
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One of my old bosses dressed up as Osama bin Laden for a work's Halloween party.
No one squeeled to the police because no-one was a professional grievance monger back then.
We all did a collective "Ooof!", got drunk, laughed about it and had a great time.
No one squeeled to the police because no-one was a professional grievance monger back then.
We all did a collective "Ooof!", got drunk, laughed about it and had a great time.
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Which law was "very clearly" broken?
Exactly.
I went out with a few mates on Halloween several* years ago. One (White) dressed in full desert fatigues, the other (Asian) dressed in stereotypical "freedom fighter" outfit, complete with toilet paper tubes painted red taped around his torso connected with random bits of wire.
Guess what - everyone had a laugh, nobody got arrested, and no police time was wasted.
* several... 20... who's counting?
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Your stroke is getting worse
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What are you basing that on? I'd imagine he gets a fine and nothing more.
EDIT seems the Magistrates have referred it to Crown Court because they don't have the sentencing power. I reckon he'll be on a suspended sentence, unless there is more to the story.
I didn't refer to any case. I was replying to someone elses post about the value of attending home burglaries.
think of the amount of police you would need to go after everyone that has offended someone, our tax rate would double
My post has nothing to do with slippery slopes. Please ensure you read and understand prior to replying. Thank you.
Your final statement is irrelevant as you never specified the what type of burglary you were talking about.
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Prison for wearing a fancy dress costume on a day when fancy dress is worn by many people, yet Hue Edwards is let off.
Seems about right for this backwards place.
Seems about right for this backwards place.
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Oh so you're not making a prediction and you think it's the case right now that people should be armed right now and that'll fix crime.
In that case your entire post is a joke and the place where the second amendment is from is presented as evidence.
generally those with money will get the better end of sentencing, not always but it happens. its same as stupid posts on social media is more of a threat than a paedophile or other crimes. strange world we live in now.
one wrong tweet could bring Starmer down, did you not see Drwho vs Harriet Jones?
Starmer is like the Western Winnie the Poo, he probably gets on well with Xi jinping or whatever hes called
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2000 people have been imprisoned for not paying their BBC Licence Fee over the years. Can't blame Kier for this one but the justice system has thrown up some perverse biases over the years. Stupid, hateful Facebook post 15 months in jail. Spend years looking at the foulest of the foul that is only produced as a consequence of terrible crimes, off you toddle.
edit: yes I know they were actually jailed for failing to pay the fine.
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Depends on the context & intent IMO.
Going to a fancy dress party with a few mates, dressed as <insert controversial figure here> for a laugh - fine.
Dressing up as <insert controversial figure here> to purposefully be a ****, with the end goal to offend/upset people - not cool.
In this case it seems to be the former, so no, I don't think he should be arrested for it, what a waste of police time
Obviously if he'd turned up at the home of the family of one of the people killed in the attack and started being an ****, that would be a different matter.
Where do you draw the line otherwise? Should a 5 year old dressing as the devil for halloween be sent to juvy, since surely that is extremely offensive to devout Christians? What about dressing as a pirate with a peg-leg? Wouldn't want to upset any amputees!
100% this.
Offence to me is a choice - I know that's a controversial statement, but that's my opinion, I don't expect people to agree with it.
However, as you say, doing in in the right context is completely harmless, and as Ricky Gervais said, people conflate the subject of the joke with the target. People will choose to be offended, and going out of your way to be offensive isn't really normal decent human behaviour.
Yes we should be allowed to poke the extremes, but also be able to read the room (i.e. society or the culture you're part of) and realise sometimes even though you should be empowered to do whatever you want, it's not always wise to. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
We should be encouraging a little more kindness, we seem to have forgotten how to be decent human beings at times.
lets face it the guys having a laugh, it's comedy.
people dress up in fancy dress to make people laugh, not to offend them.
It's childish and immature but that seems to be all.
It's not like hes running into public places or a mosque and filming it for youtube.
What was the offensive context? someone doesn't like it.
Meanwhile in the UK 3 of the biggest comedians who do sell out tours make pedo jokes and no one cares.
surely pedo jokes are more offensive than a fancy dress suicide bomber?
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