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It has nothing to do with it being genuine or not....
Its the fact he said it to cause distress! Malicious intent!
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It has nothing to do with it being genuine or not....
Its the fact he said it to cause distress! Malicious intent!
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Whoever this Daley guy is he is a tool and that goes for every other celebrity who thinks that they are God's gift and are a cut above the rest.
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Taking the complaint seriously isn't the same as taking the claim that this twerp actually had designs on killing Daley as a realistic possibility.
If I made a complaint about a comedian making a joke about them killing Justin Bieber (which has been done 1000 times before) would you expect the police to arrest them and assume they actually had plans to do it?
fair enough tbh... while I don't agree with someone being arrested for insulting someone else a death threat deserves a police response regardless of intent.
You're not elaborating as to who said the threat was not taken seriously. And who said he wasn't charged with what offence? What am I missing here? All I've seen is the kid was arrested. There's been no mention in the news that I've seen about what he's been charged with.
Using a comedian as an analogy is really stupid.
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From what I've read he's had a warning. No charges
Why, I am sure Rebecca Adlington found what Frankie Boyle tweeted offensive.
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do you think the police will treat similar death threats aimed towards "non celebs" in the same way and urgency?
No they won't! Celebs deserve all the stick they get, personally I wouldn't spit on them if they were on fire. Apart from those who are genuinely modest, humble and do great things for their local communities, society and charity.
The rest of them just live of the attention people give towards them.
You don't want my opinion on what I think of Frankie Boyle's "comedy", or anyone that thinks anything he does or says is in anyway entertaining.
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do you think the police will treat similar death threats aimed towards "non celebs" in the same way and urgency?
No they won't! Celebs deserve all the stick they get, personally I wouldn't spit on them if they were on fire. Apart from those who are genuinely modest, humble and do great things for their local communities, society and charity.
The rest of them just live of the attention people give towards them.
Go do some research. Threats, trolling, etc. on social networks against non celebrities has been dealt with by the police a few times.
example: trolling a dead girls facebook page.
I've also seen school bullying\threats and social networking general threats come up now and again in the news, Involving the police
It isn't about what you think is entertaining, he was not arrested for sending a malicious communication was he.
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Why? Shouldn't the law apply to all?
OK so if I posted "I hate Justin Bieber, I'd love to kill the little twerp" you'd think it reasonable for the Police to interview me over it?
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Nope. But i think if you posted it directed at justin bieber, saying "I'm going to kill you" There would be the chance of you having a visit.
Probably because nobody made an official complaint to the police. Any time Boyle has been reprimanded for anything he has said it has been by whoever he's under the employ of at the time. In Daley's case, someone made an official complaint to police.
By no means does he think he's god's gift. He's a diver who has trained hard and done well.
I doubt he reported it to the police.. he has dealt with bullying at school because he was a diver, overcome it. Thousands of people were hating on the scumbag who made the comment in the first place. Within a couple of hours it was on the dailymail website.. the police probably just looked into it because it was such a well known occurrence at the time.
It does also go against the malicious communications act. If anything I think it was good for the police to take the scum in and let him out later in the day. Maybe it was stop some idiot in the future doing something similar.
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You seem to be missing the point. Did you see the messages aimed at Daley? Theres a big difference between an off the cuff remark, and a torrent of abuse, with death threats(hollow as they may have been) thrown directly at the person in question!
You may not agree, but considering police action, the difference is there.
I know, you would have looked like an idiot when trying to compare an opinion to a threat to kill.