This months 'crime' for two coppers....

[IaHa]

streaky said:

"I asked the officers how they could arrest someone for wearing a T-shirt and they told me it was because it would offend a 70-80-year-old woman." So it appears that those BiB knew what would offend a 70 to 80-year old woman. Is this part of their training? Did they receive a complaint from any example person? Did they test their hypothesis on any such person? Why wouldn't it offend a 69 year-old woman? Or one aged 81? Why wouldn't it offend a 70 to 80-year old man? Were the police discriminating on the grounds of sex?

It's actually 75 year old women who are offended, but we allow 5 years discretion either way.
Outside that discretionary limit, then forget it, so 69 and 81 and men just do not figure.

And to anyone who thinks we are indoctrinated by numerical enforcement - Bollox!!

[KB_S1]

Bit like the gentleman arrested in a NY shopping mall last year for wearing a T shirt with the Lennon song title 'give Peace a chance' on it.
he was arrested for displaying unpatriotic messages or something. Judge threw it out thankfully.

Anyway i thought the sex Pistols case would have scared the Police away from arresting over bollox?

[nightmare]

smeggy said:

nightmare said: stuff “Bo**ocks to Blair” and “you’re a c***” are completely different; the former is an expression of opinion of Blair (justifiably so), the latter is an ignorant provocation aimed at anyone who reads it. Would she have been arrested if the T-shirt read only “Bo**ocks” ? I realise the irony of my censoring that word, so don’t bother pointing that out

hmm....fair point...as is the one about it being a slippery slope. I'm not really sure as it goes...the fact that it's a statement of opinion could easily then be exploited by my t-shirt saying 'i think x is a c**t' or similar. the intent would be to offend i imagine...and in the same way as most would say spitting at people isn't on, maybe wearing offensive t-shirts out isn't either.

i have a 'smoke crack and worship satan' t-shirt...which is also vaguely offensive just not sure if i should make other people read it.

waste of police resources? well maybe...but a tenner says that the cops didnt just walk up and arrest them. bet the girls managed to really p*ss the cops of when they came over for a chat about it and ended up getting arrested...always seems to happen on police camera action stylee things!