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JumboBeef
21-07-2008, 06:57
Item in The DM today:

Photographing thugs 'is assault', police tell householder snapping proof of anti-social behaviour (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036728/Photographing-thugs-assault-police-tell-householder-snapping-proof-anti-social-behaviour.html)

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Keltic Ice Man
21-07-2008, 07:11
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the force had no record of the incident. :thinking:
purpleclouds
21-07-2008, 07:45
PCSO not only didn't know the law....but didn't know how to file the incident it seems!!
Steep
21-07-2008, 07:49
Outside the cameramans' one million pound flat...
TorqueRevs
21-07-2008, 07:50
surely not!
Marcel
21-07-2008, 07:55
Photographing thugs 'is assault', police tell householder snapping proof of anti-social behaviour

'A couple of hours later a Police Community Support Officer told me I had been accused of assault, though no such thing occurred, and told me I was not allowed to take photographs of teenagers on the street.

Some lovely headline writing there by the Daily Mail.
Nothing like a good headline to whip the readers into a "This country is disgusting" frenzy.
jerry12953
21-07-2008, 07:56
You don't believe everything you read in the Daily Mail, do you?:lol:
moomike
21-07-2008, 07:57
You don't believe everything you read in the Daily Mail, do you?:lol:

You mean some of it's not true?!?! :eek: :lol:
badgerbaiter
21-07-2008, 08:13
can we have a new section for 'this country's going to the dogs daily mail crap'?
then i can ignore it more easily
barsbyart
21-07-2008, 08:16
:lol::lol::lol::lol:
The DM is a sesationalist rag - definitely not worth chopping down trees to produce.

The legal definition of assault is to offer violence (threaten) or otherwise cause another person to believe you are offerring violence.

And this in the same week that the police said the public should get involved directly to stop crime if they see it.
inaneredstripe
21-07-2008, 21:05
so. would kicking said scrote in the nads be assault?
Techno-Geek
21-07-2008, 21:09
I'm having CCTV outside my house when i move out, they can do what they want. I've got them on film :D

so. would kicking said scrote in the nads be assault?

:lol:
shiato storm
21-07-2008, 22:25
so. would kicking said scrote in the nads be assault?
i believe that's the 80's pass time of hacky-sack
badgerbaiter
21-07-2008, 22:32
does that photo really look like it was taken outside a 1 million quid pad?
Splog
21-07-2008, 22:35
does that photo really look like it was taken outside a 1 million quid pad?

In London? ... Could be :D
Canon Bob
21-07-2008, 23:01
Photographing thugs 'is assault'

Leads me to wonder if some Premier League footballers will be sueing the sports togs (who sit behind the goal line) when the new season gets going :shrug:

Bob
Flash In The Pan
22-07-2008, 00:18
As a DM reader, what I want to know is how this will effect house prices....:lol:
mobilevirgin
22-07-2008, 00:31
The headline and the report don't match. Nowhere in the report does it say that he was accused of assault by taking photos.

The report says this:

A couple of hours later, a Police Community Support Officer told me I had been accused of assault, though no such thing occurred, and told me I was not allowed to take photographs of teenagers on the street.

We all know that taking photos in the street is not against the law and we also know that some PCSOs think it is. But we have never had an allegation that its an assault. And this is not such an allegation. Its 2 different things - (1) scally says 'tog assaulted him - which may or may not be true (2) PCSO says - can't take photos on the street - which we all know is balls.

But this is not - you took photos of me = assault
badgerbaiter
22-07-2008, 08:04
As a DM reader, what I want to know is how this will effect house prices....:lol:

LOL
barsbyart
22-07-2008, 08:39
so. would kicking said scrote in the nads be assault?

No. That would be 'battery'.
-Paul-
22-07-2008, 08:42
so. would kicking said scrote in the nads be assault?

If you're going to get accused of assault then you miight as well give them something to accuse you of! So kick them hard!!!
Tobers
22-07-2008, 16:33
It was a £1m flat but this week its only worth £700k and falling as people worry about all the scrotes hanging around :lol:
allanm
22-07-2008, 17:12
I suppose if the "thugs" had reported " theres a man taking photos of us" they wouldnt have got a response or sounded so tough.
Maybe, in the best traditions of the press, and I know this is hard to believe, we are not being told the whole story here.
As for the location, looks like Nelson Mandella House to me!

Mange tout

Allan