Clapham Acid Attack

[FiF]

captain.scarlet said:

swisstoni said:

There’s probably a low level of it all the time but the media are just picking up on it.

It’s like dog attacks; I’m sure they happen all the time too but you only hear about them for a while after some heinous incident or currently when a breed is supposed to have been banned.

Not to mention sensationalism meaning clicks, and clicks meaning revenue.

It just needs to be the hot trending topic of the day.

There's rarely a genuine journalistic interest in said subject matter when you scratch beneath the surface of something being excessively reported on.

E.g. viral social media personality (last year it was Mizzy), Palestine/Israel, the cozier livs, Prince Harry, woke something or other, immigration, LGBT topics, Sadiq Khan, dog attacks (harking back to circa 2014 when fox attacks were the hot topic of the gutter press), eco protests, Brexit/EU legacy, Labour/Tory posturing, council jobsworths, acid attacks, Ulez, utility and fuel prices, conscription and World War 3...

Personally think it's an issue arising from the 24 hour rolling news situation, with 3 or 4 daily cycles. Constantly on the look for something to fill the space, and get clicks.

Result of that is the politicians and powers that be know that whatever it is can be ignored for a while safe in the knowledge that it will have been replaced in 48 hours. When it arises again due to another incident two things will happen, part of the population will think, old news heard about that last week, as opposed it's another case is this a developing trend? Part of the population will think oh goody, another chance to have a rant and stir up something again, possibly ignoring the fact that their ranting or muck stirring had been debunked previously, and the time before that, rinse and repeat.

Another thing that will mention which irritates, the items with headlines like "Older drivers watch out, £1000 fines coming your way due to..." which turns out to be 99% total cobblers based on some odd interpretation or prediction of something that in reality is not going to happen.

Sorry, will get off my soapbox. Grump.

[otolith]

FiF said:

Another thing that will mention which irritates, the items with headlines like "Older drivers watch out, £1000 fines coming your way due to..." which turns out to be 99% total cobblers based on some odd interpretation or prediction of something that in reality is not going to happen.

Always turns out to have originated in a press release from some company trying to raise its profile.

[s1962a]

swisstoni said:

There’s probably a low level of it all the time but the media are just picking up on it.

It’s like dog attacks; I’m sure they happen all the time too but you only hear about them for a while after some heinous incident or currently when a breed is supposed to have been banned.

Looks like another one, and the perpetrator is at large. You are probably right that they are being reported more now. Horrific attacks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd18v9qq7zno

[Terminator X]

Acid attackers should get life imho. The full force of the law should come down on the absolute scum that they are.

TX.

[dudleybloke]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68668940

[bitchstewie]

You do have to wonder how the hell that man got granted asylum.

[Ridgemont]

bhstewie said:

You do have to wonder how the hell that man got granted asylum.

I do hope ‘Reverend Roy Merrin’ has a long good look at himself.
Gullible idiots.

[pocketspring]

bhstewie said:

You do have to wonder how the hell that man got granted asylum.

Because if you don't, the racist card gets pulled out and you'll be labelled a bigot, xenophobe, and anything else to oppress you.

[swisstoni]

Seems this Christian got an Islamic burial. Shurely shome mishtake.

[bitchstewie]

pocketspring said:

Because if you don't, the racist card gets pulled out and you'll be labelled a bigot, xenophobe, and anything else to oppress you.

I don't think too many people are going to go to bat for someone convicted of sexual assault and exposure.

[Randy Winkman]

bhstewie said:

pocketspring said:

Because if you don't, the racist card gets pulled out and you'll be labelled a bigot, xenophobe, and anything else to oppress you.

I don't think too many people are going to go to bat for someone convicted of sexual assault and exposure.

Exactly. It's not all one way or the other is it? Most of us are somewhere in the middle.

[turbobloke]

swisstoni said:

Seems this Christian got an Islamic burial. Shurely shome mishtake.

Apparently, according to a radio news bulletin this evening, the Home Office didn't believe his Pray to Stay conversion and refused his Nth application whatever N was, but the folks deciding his appeal fell for it. Suckers.

[BikeBikeBIke]

Ridgemont said:

bhstewie said:

You do have to wonder how the hell that man got granted asylum.

I do hope ‘Reverend Roy Merrin’ has a long good look at himself.
Gullible idiots.

I'd agree. Giving someone a reference who you don't trust in your church without a chaperone to stop him attacking people???!!!!

That's not gullible. He hadn't been fooled, he knew the guy was unsafe amd gave the guy a reference anyway.

[otolith]

swisstoni said:

Seems this Christian got an Islamic burial. Shurely shome mishtake.

"The request for a Muslim burial is believed to have come from friends and family."

Hotel California.

[Vanden Saab]

bhstewie said:

pocketspring said:

Because if you don't, the racist card gets pulled out and you'll be labelled a bigot, xenophobe, and anything else to oppress you.

I don't think too many people are going to go to bat for someone convicted of sexual assault and exposure.

This is a vicar you are talking about. They have been doing it for centuries.

[E63eeeeee...]

pocketspring said:

bhstewie said:

You do have to wonder how the hell that man got granted asylum.

Because if you don't, the racist card gets pulled out and you'll be labelled a bigot, xenophobe, and anything else to oppress you.

Well, that wins a prize for the most clueless statement I've read today. How much exactly do you know about the processes for granting or refusing asylum and how did you arrive at this interpretation?

[E63eeeeee...]

bhstewie said:

You do have to wonder how the hell that man got granted asylum.

In simple terms, because an immigration judge believed that he was a Christian and (presumably) believed that the offences weren't serious enough to exclude him from asylum.

The other aspect is that we don't seem to have a single scrap of evidence that the conversion to Christianity actually wasn't genuine.

[swisstoni]

E63eeeeee... said:

bhstewie said:

You do have to wonder how the hell that man got granted asylum.

In simple terms, because an immigration judge believed that he was a Christian and (presumably) believed that the offences weren't serious enough to exclude him from asylum.

The other aspect is that we don't seem to have a single scrap of evidence that the conversion to Christianity actually wasn't genuine.

Have a day off.

[Oliver Hardy]

E63eeeeee... said:

bhstewie said:

You do have to wonder how the hell that man got granted asylum.

In simple terms, because an immigration judge believed that he was a Christian and (presumably) believed that the offences weren't serious enough to exclude him from asylum.

The other aspect is that we don't seem to have a single scrap of evidence that the conversion to Christianity actually wasn't genuine.

Yep who ever that judge was should be asked some serious questions, of course s/he won't.

[donkmeister]

Vanden Saab said:

bhstewie said:

pocketspring said:

Because if you don't, the racist card gets pulled out and you'll be labelled a bigot, xenophobe, and anything else to oppress you.

I don't think too many people are going to go to bat for someone convicted of sexual assault and exposure.

This is a vicar you are talking about. They have been doing it for centuries.

I might not be one who has a fish on his car (or a shark, for what it's worth), but even I know that's a baptist minister (vicars are clergy in the CofE).

PH: Ecumenical Matters.