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(The Sun)   Court spends £8,000 to prosecute teenager for barking at a dog   (thesun.co.uk) divider line 36
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2007-04-28 12:29:24 AM
See, here in the USA, barking at dogs is protected free speech -- unless, of course, the dogs are upset by it. Then you might go to jail.

Of course, a good defense might be to claim you were misunderstood. How good is your "dog"?

// Or you could insist the dog put it in writing.
 
2007-04-28 02:25:16 AM
Your dog wants a lawyer.
 
2007-04-28 02:46:17 AM
and I thought US&A had problems...
 
2007-04-28 02:46:28 AM
ftfa:

But the farce finally came to an end when Judge Beatrice Bolton overturned the ruling, fuming: "The law is not an ass."

Well how do you account for all the assholes?

/ha?
 
2007-04-28 02:47:11 AM
What the fark is happening to the brits?.

Now who the hell the world will look up to for rugged manliness? The Aussies? The Kiwis?.

Well, I guess we mexicans and the irish will have to take the mantle.

/Was my troll-fu strong?
 
2007-04-28 02:47:21 AM
But the farce finally came to an end when Judge Beatrice Bolton overturned the ruling, fuming: "The law is not an ass."

Thank you, Beatrice, for clearing that up
 
2007-04-28 02:48:19 AM
I've read that in the UK, people who rape and murder kids get a whopping 8 years in the pokey.

/to scrape the barnacles off her hull
 
2007-04-28 02:52:33 AM
CygnusDarius: What the fark is happening to the brits?.

Now who the hell the world will look up to for rugged manliness?


The Canucks.

/ "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay. . ."
 
2007-04-28 02:57:31 AM
Purelilac: "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay. . ."

I sleep all night and I work all day
 
2007-04-28 03:02:09 AM
Thank heavens there was at least one judge with a grain of common sense.
 
2007-04-28 03:03:27 AM
Send the lad to obedience school.

/sit boy, sit
 
2007-04-28 03:05:25 AM
When I was 12 I rode past this house and a dog in the yard barked at me, so I barked back at him. Then these three guys came rushing out of the house, jumped in their Camaro, chased me down, hit my bike, grabbed me up and threatened to beat the shiat out of me. Like guys in their mid-twenties. Totally farked up. Thank god some guy came out of his house and screamed that he was calling the cops.

/sorry, post brought back bad memories
 
2007-04-28 03:06:06 AM
melcrose

You should have been here a couple of days ago as it was even worse. The entire right border that's in gray now was all white. They have toned down the white some what, but it's still a work in progress.
 
2007-04-28 03:07:00 AM
Now if only the judge had the sense to reprimand the officers for wasting her tie. That ~$16K should come straight out of their salaries.
 
2007-04-28 03:07:10 AM
FTFA: Magistrates convicted him of causing harassment, alarm or distress to the dogs' owner Sunita Vedhara - even though she did not complain.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

Do British cops have so few brown people to shoot in the face multiple times for wearing a puffy jacket that they have to invent crimes whenever they see a human interacting with some orther animate object?!

I was there a week. I witnessed an asault right in front of those CCTV cameras they've got everywhere and within several feet of a cop who probably didn't even know he was in uniform. England has got to be the most ass backwards nation in the Western world. And beating the US in that regard is no small matter.

/So apparently we've discarded font size changes
//New design is as unnecessary as it is ugly
 
2007-04-28 03:09:11 AM
CygnusDarius

Mexican Farkers? Either I haven't lurked long enough, or you're the first I've met.

/Matamoros, Tamps.
//Mexicans > Irish. Negra Modelo > Guinness.
 
2007-04-28 03:12:46 AM
FiatJustitia
Mexican Farkers? Either I haven't lurked long enough, or you're the first I've met.

There are (or were) others, just few and far between.

/Indio > Negra Modelo
 
2007-04-28 03:15:27 AM
This confirms my suspicion that in the UK our policemen are all egotists. The policeman should have ignored it, kid gets bored, moves on but instead it gets out of hand and becomes about one male smacking down the ego of another male. The policeman should be carpeted and given a huge bollocking over this.
 
2007-04-28 03:17:08 AM
Fark Homepage: removed.

Link below address bar: deleted.

Goodbye Fark. I couldn't handle the eye strain.
 
2007-04-28 03:18:20 AM
melcrose

You might try turning down the contrast and brightness on your monitor a tad. It helps my eyes.
 
2007-04-28 03:21:28 AM
Kyle's barrister Chris Mitford

He has no job but has a personal coffee maker? Man, those unemployment benefits really ARE better in Europe.
 
2007-04-28 03:22:36 AM
lol i do this all the time, i never knew i would be a criminal in the uk
/im sorry my british bretheren, i love yall, but you guys are turning into farking pussies - sort of like the germans.
 
2007-04-28 03:26:23 AM
I did that to my neighbor's dog two days ago!

The little bastard pug would not stop yapping while I worked on my truck. I woofed back at him and he ran off like a little chicken sh*t.

I can't believe that the cops would arrest a guy for that.

What the hell is going on with Britain?
 
2007-04-28 03:51:11 AM
ftfa: But the farce finally came to an end when Judge Beatrice Bolton overturned the ruling, fuming: "The law is not an ass."

The farce is strong with this one. Does anyone think that the dogs will get over it?
 
2007-04-28 03:51:55 AM
As a British American, I feel extreme pain for the motherland sometimes. It seems everything is illegal over there now, but only if you're poor. Meanwhile the moneyed college kids I used to hang with smoke weed in public without drawing so much as a yawn from the cops.


Yet the other half of me wonders if the guy was up to some unprovable no good and so they arrested him for whatever little infraction they could pin on him.


Either way I didn't know it was against teh law to be "cheeky." Man, that cop needs an orgasm.
 
2007-04-28 05:26:22 AM
melcrose
Thanks for sharing that.
I find the details of your web surfing preferences absolutely fascinating.

I can't wait to hear for your next post on what sites you like and why. We're all agog here, let me tell you.
 
2007-04-28 05:28:04 AM
I bark at dogs.

I also grawk at Ravens, and huff at Moose.

They like it, else they get a rock.
 
2007-04-28 06:37:16 AM
CygnusDarius
Now who the hell the world will look up to for rugged manliness?

CANADIANS!

Seriously. Try to survive a winter in Edmonton. I dare you.
 
2007-04-28 08:01:27 AM
LOL..

If you have ever walked a dog... this is a regular thing. People bark at dogs.

Especially drunk people. If you walk a dog near a bar, be prepared for numerous drunk dudes to be all, "Hey, look at Killer! Woof woof arf!" (Particularly if the dog you're walking is a cute golden retriever or something.)
 
2007-04-28 08:10:32 AM
Sgt Douglas Johnston and PC Daniel Peacock arrested him.

These two cops were a couple of pricks...
 
2007-04-28 09:18:26 AM
Well they had to arrest him. He was in a "No Barking" zone.
 
2007-04-28 10:55:06 AM
Kalyco Jack
It seems everything is illegal over there now, but only if you're poor.

So, in other words, it's just like the States?
 
2007-04-28 11:07:58 AM
starsrift
The Canucks.

/ "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay. . ."


arollo
CANADIANS!

Seriously. Try to survive a winter in Edmonton. I dare you.


Errr... I'm rather hesitant. But then again, what the hell do I know?.
 
2007-04-28 11:42:56 AM
Ah yes, yet another example from (formerly Great) Britain exemplifying the inversion of priorities. Important matters are now taken lightly and trivial ones taken seriously.
 
2007-04-28 03:14:46 PM
Just another case of asshat police officers on the wrong end of nightstick.
 
2007-04-28 03:16:28 PM
FiatJustitia
Mexican Farkers? Either I haven't lurked long enough, or you're the first I've met.


I am part mexican. of course I am also racially partially just about anything you can name.

I got the uber genes.
 
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