Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss for a mob
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Not much to add to this other than it is a very shocking attack.
BBC News - Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss on London bus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48555...
BBC News - Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss on London bus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48555...
cookie118 said:
Not much to add to this other than it is a very shocking attack.
BBC News - Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss on London bus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48555...
Horrific, my son told me about it the day after it happened, he knows a freind of one of those attacked.BBC News - Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss on London bus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48555...
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.
But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
tleefox said:
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.
But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
Possibly, but I'm not sure I can think of anything that could happen on a bus whereby the beating of two women is justified.But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
tleefox said:
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.
But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
Can you expand a bit more on your feeling?But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
The story doesn't cover the bit between the throwing of coins and the physical violence. Reading between the lines, i'm going to suggest the blonde women started the physical violence. That's probably why the CCTV isn't available.
Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
tleefox said:
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.
But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
What exactly do you think could have happened such that four men beating up two women on a bus is acceptable? But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
Escy said:
The story doesn't cover the bit between the throwing of coins and the physical violence. Reading between the lines, i'm going to suggest the blonde women started the physical violence. That's probably why the CCTV isn't available.
Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
Eh? How on earth did you arrive at that conclusion? Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
Anyway, even if she did go over and confront them, that's well within her right after getting homophobic and misogynistic abuse and coins chucked at them. That doesn't mean its her fault if they then get assaulted.
tleefox said:
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.
But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
Your opinion is not a good look, and I think you're wrong, but then I didn't imagine that actor bloke in America would pay a couple of guys to help him fabricate a racial/homophobic assault.But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
[quote=Escy]The story doesn't cover the bit between the throwing of coins and the physical violence. Reading between the lines, i'm going to suggest the blonde women started the physical violence. That's probably why the CCTV isn't available.
Maybe she expressed her fear through the medium of interpretive dance, that's more likely than your suggestion a 7 stone woman went toe to toe with a bunch of fecktartds on a bus late night in London.
The CCTV is probably being held back by the police for a number of reasons.
Maybe she expressed her fear through the medium of interpretive dance, that's more likely than your suggestion a 7 stone woman went toe to toe with a bunch of fecktartds on a bus late night in London.
The CCTV is probably being held back by the police for a number of reasons.
Escy said:
The story doesn't cover the bit between the throwing of coins and the physical violence. Reading between the lines, i'm going to suggest the blonde women started the physical violence. That's probably why the CCTV isn't available.
Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
Go on then, provide something that backs up your claim that the blonde women started the physical violence and shows the 2 women deserved a beating from a group of men who could have walked away from the violence the blonde women were giving the men.Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
Escy said:
The story doesn't cover the bit between the throwing of coins and the physical violence. Reading between the lines, i'm going to suggest the blonde women started the physical violence. That's probably why the CCTV isn't available.
Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
How on earth did you come to that?Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
You could have just as easily said 'I think a giant panda got on and threw the first punches' or literally anything else that could have happened but you have zero evidence for.
tleefox said:
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.
But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
You'd be amazed what people do in a mob and others will watch.But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.
More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
Saw an Indian woman being abused on the tube a few years back by a group and no one did a thing.
Well other than me, I went and sat with her and talked to her and basically showed the aholes abusing her she wasn't on her own.
It probably helped that I'm 6'3" but still amazed no one else did a thing
Piha said:
Go on then, provide something that backs up your claim that the blonde women started the physical violence and shows the 2 women deserved a beating from a group of men who could have walked away from the violence the blonde women were giving the men.
Perhaps he means this"The next thing I know is that Chris is in the middle of the bus fighting with them. On an impulse, I went over there only to find her face bleeding and three of them beating her up.
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