Is this really worth 12 weeks in prison?

[anonymous-user]

I'd have given him life or worse.

It's the only way to start cleaning the gene pool

[Jasandjules]

FunkyChucker said:

Oakey said:

You are however entirely free to set up a page demanding he be hung from the nearest tree

Yes, and then publish posts from people describing how they would torture and kill him in graphic detail.

So do we know all report those people to the police in the interests of fairness?

[B17NNS]

don4l said:

he was deliberately trying to cause as much offence as possible. I'm not sure that we have the right to do this.

Frankie Boyle has made a career of doing exactly that.

A complete and utter waste of time and resources.

[FreeLitres]

What the chap said was pretty sick, but it didn't deserve a stretch in Prison FFS!

How far could this go? Could someone look back at the old Michael Jackson jokes and start sending PHers to Prison?

[HRL]

FreeLitres said:

Could someone look back at the old Michael Jackson jokes and start sending PHers to Prison?

Already working on it...

[Pesty]

I would argue sick jokes are part of our culture and tradition going back throughout time.

If it was just that joke then definitely should not have been gaoled. Shouldn't even have been in court.

[FreeLitres]

Right, who was that guy that wished I got "bum cancer" because I drove an Electric car for a few months?...

[Oakey]

Jasandjules said:

So do we know all report those people to the police in the interests of fairness?

You could but we don't, usually because we're intelligent enough to think "why would I bother our already stretched police force with this bullst?"

[Riley Blue]

He's being made an example of, I hope it works.

[bitchstewie]

I've said it before but it does seem weird that I could probably walk outside right now and punch a total stranger in the face and get less than this chap got.

He's a prick for sure, but 12 weeks seems, frankly, ridiculous, and as others have said when will Frankie Boyle be in the dock?

[Pesty]

Riley Blue said:

He's being made an example of, I hope it works.

Really? You want a person who told a joke only made possible because the girl has a month as her name to go to gaol to stop other people telling sick jokes?

Welcome to thought crime UK.

[Oakey]

Riley Blue said:

He's being made an example of, I hope it works.

How long for Boyle then?

https://twitter.com/frankieboyle/status/2527132799...

[vescaegg]

Whilst its a bit sick (but obviously a joke) its a worrying trend of people being arrested and charged with (?) for their twitterings.

What law is being used to carry these arrests out? Isnt freedom of speech something many people from this country have died for?

Where were the police vans rounding up the poppy burners a couple of years back? Did any of them get custodial sentences?

[phil-sti]

Oakey said:

Riley Blue said:

He's being made an example of, I hope it works.

How long for Boyle then?

https://twitter.com/frankieboyle/status/2527132799...

I posted that same joke on Facebook :-) oooops

[anonymous-user]

B17NNS said:

Frankie Boyle

A complete and utter waste of time and space.

Efa,,

Now spot on

[TwigtheWonderkid]

It's high time that Twitter and Facebook had a box you have to tick before joining, along the lines of "by signing up to Twitbook, I hereby accept that I am joining an unregulated faceless community which, by virtue of the law of averages, will include loads of complete s. I therefore accept that by joining twitbook I am able to just ignore these mindless wkers without getting my knickers in a twist.

That way, no one can complain.

[Pesty]

Sounds fair

[Oakey]

What bothers me about this is he posted it on his Facebook wall and someone else took a screenshot of said post and posted it on the April page. This is classic trolling. They deliberately posted that on that page under the guise of "look, look at the bad man, be offended" knowing it would cause offense.

[Pesty]

Oakey said:

What bothers me about this is he posted it on his Facebook wall and someone else took a screenshot of said post and posted it on the April page. This is classic trolling. They deliberately posted that on that page under the guise of "look, look at the bad man, be offended" knowing it would cause offense.

The surely that is teh guy who should be in trouble

[ofcorsa]

This really enrages me, of all the things the CPS and Judges should be doing, they do this. If everyone on the net started reporting every thing that offended them it would be carnage......