BBC: Scotland Police Utilizing Web To Hunt for Knives

[phaserrifle]

Reality check here people. He whistled the Adams Family tune at them. That´s it. So what?

This case should have been dismissed. To prosecute "malicious whistling" is a complete waste of tax money.



Yeah, and whistling made the Titanic sink too. Gimme a break.

1) ok. the bloke has been served with an anti-social behavior order, which has instructed him to cease his behaviour, which is obviously causing distress to the people he is doing it to. this behaviour was deliberate, and one would assume that he became aware it was causing a problem before the ASBO came about, so continuing to do so was obviously continued with a degree of malice. when the ASBO was breached that is a crime in itself, and I understand that that is what he was put away for, not the whistling per se. that is worth the court's time, it's a breach of a court order.

2) it is entierly possible that the gentlemans behaviour was causing the woman and her family stress. stress can cause medical symptoms if it is continuous, as I understand it. the whistling itself wasn't causing the the problems directly, but it was because of the whisting and accompanying behaviour that the medical conditions may have occured.

 

[mhawg]

Lawmandan--you apparently know little yourself.

Please find me a single American citizen who was negatively impacted by the Patriot Act. Just one. Outside of a few Hollywood types who were terrified people would be listening to their phone calls, or seizing their emails, or reading their mail...except none of that ever happened.

And please name me one "national" who was tortured by the Federal government. Just one.

Your experience to America seems to be limited to The Guardian and Hollywood movies. Bad teachers, both.

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

 

[Watchful]

So like me, you couldn't name anyone, either.

 

[phaserrifle]

So like me, you couldn't name anyone, either.

and of course, any us nationals who where/are being tortured, have their name's freely availbable for all to see. with the political fallout that entails.

and no, I don't know about US nationals, but you shure as hell have been touturing UK citizens. for example Binyam Mohamed, who while born in etheopia, moved to the UK when he was 15. and mozzam begg, who was born and raised in the UK.

 

[Watchful]

...you shure as hell have been touturing UK citizens.

I've done done nothing of the sort. Stay on topic.

 

[phaserrifle]

I've done done nothing of the sort. Stay on topic.

you as in the US as a country, not you personaly.

 

[BadFrog]

and of course, any us nationals who where/are being tortured, have their name's freely availbable for all to see. with the political fallout that entails.

and no, I don't know about US nationals, but you shure as hell have been touturing UK citizens. for example Binyam Mohamed, who while born in etheopia, moved to the UK when he was 15. and mozzam begg, who was born and raised in the UK.

Let's be exact here. Binyam Mohamed is an asylum seeker and not a UK citizen.

 

[phaserrifle]

Let's be exact here. Binyam Mohamed is an asylum seeker and not a UK citizen.

I stand corrected. the articles I could find seemed to portray him as a asylum seeker who had successfuly become a uk citizen, but it didn't expressly state this.

 

[darth kcorbe]

I don't think that lack of action is limited to just the people of London. Ironic that you say you're from NY. Don't you remember certain other people not having the balls to confront knife wielding criminals, just sitting meekly in their seats hoping everything will be OK. Does that disgraceful event say more about the American people than all of your gun ownership laws do?

i just want to express my surprise that you didn't open Pandora's box with that one, friend; i doubt you could have pulled that out "IRL" and left with your nose on you. the American people had been taught for years that the best thing to do in a hijacking was to cooperate, and i guarantee passengers will never let it happen that way again, which is the REAL reason there hasn't been a repeat incident -that wild card's been played and they(whoever THEY happens to be at the moment) know it won't work again.


about the whistling incident: i'm no more a stranger to annoyance than anyone else here but actually tossing a guy in jail for it has never once crossed my mind. apart from the torment of getting a bad tune stuck in my head i can't imagine how this would cause one great distress. i'll not contest the consequences of going against the court order, but that said, he was whistling, and five months in jail is overly excessive regardless of how irritating it was.

per the original topic: posting a identifiable picture of oneself on the net is unwise regardless of what you're doing or its legality; i think we can all agree on that. however, i don't see police going through the trouble of tracing a picture to it's origin over possession of a questionable KNIFE, unless it's covered in blood or something.