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gillworm
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the Standard declares it has a campaign to make london stations safe and this is what i saw when i got home last night:
before we reached the ticket gates there were ticket inspectors.
when i walked up the stairs to the ticket hall there was a sniffer dog and a mass of policemen. they were sorting out young men (mostly) and walking them through a metal detector-doorway, searching for knives.
the sheer numbers crammed into that small ticket hall were intimidating, i haven't felt unsafe in walthamstow very often till now! there have been odd incidents but never enough to seem more than just odd happenings rather than a sign of greater danger.
a student was given a spot fine of £80 for using the f-word ina conversation with a friend overheard by a wpc. i don't know how i feel about all this, are we really on a downward slope to a safer but more restricted future?
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Tommy BOO
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safe as f-word.
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Kris
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 14:44 Post subject: Re: safe? |
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a student was given a spot fine of £80 for using the f-word ina conversation with a friend overheard by a wpc. |
What on earth was the charge?! Since when was the word, "fuck" illegal and at a premium?!
In danger my arse. Everyone is scared shitless and over very little. Labour wont be happy til we are all housebound.
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Setareh Juventina
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That's the strategy, first they scare you and make you feel unsafe, then they present solutions 'we'll have cameras everywhere!'.
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Dubya - T
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 00:57 Post subject: Re: safe? |
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a student was given a spot fine of £80 for using the f-word ina conversation with a friend overheard by a wpc. |
What on earth was the charge?! Since when was the word, "fuck" illegal and at a premium?!
In danger my arse. Everyone is scared shitless and over very little. Labour wont be happy til we are all housebound. |
the word fuck is illegal. that and cunt are the only two words you can be nicked for using it's obscene language, see.
It's not normal for that to be the sole charge, it's normally added to something else when you swear at the coppers arresting you!
That said, it was a student involved, so I'm not surprised. He was probably told about his language and then decided to be a clever so and so and make matters worse by swearing more.
I had a mate who did that in a pub. The landlord threatened to bar us but this fool carried on. In the end I asked the lanlord to bar us to shut him up! Result!
New labour and their nanny state nonsense, on the other hand, can go fuck their grannys. the cunts.
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gillworm
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here's the story on the bbc site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4734350.stm
unless he got gobby with the WPC, it's a bit difficult to see that he deserved the fine, given the context of the swearing.
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John Mc
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There's been policemen with sniffer dogs at the railway station I use every day after work for the past couple of weeks. I don't know whether a visible police presence makes me feel more or less safe (especially as I had 47 kilos of heroin in my bag).
And I was on the side of that kid who got fined for saying a naughty word up until I was stuck on a train with a load of kids saying naughty words repeatedly, loudly, annoyingly for 45 fucking minutes on the way home last night. It brought out the Daily Mail reader in me and I now believe that no-one under the age of 21 should be allowed out in public after 5pm.
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gillworm
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love the photo joke
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| The photo joke was borrowed/stolen from the always brilliant "Private Eye". It's difficult to read an issue without coming away feeling (more) cynical about everyone and everything. Their piece on the scandal over the cartoons in Denmark was particularly good. |
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