Oxford, England must be paradise if the police have no other “crimes” to go after.
Finalist Arrested For Calling Police Horse ‘Gay’
A drunken Balliol third year spent a night in the cells and was fined £80 after insulting a police horse on Cornmarket Street. Brown left ‘The Cellar’ nightclub at around 2am on Monday morning with a group of friends. Two mounted policemen were passing the group when Brown is alleged to have called out: “Mate, you know your horse is gay, I hope you don’t have a problem with that.” The officers appeared to take offence at the comment and warned Brown not to repeat it.
He called out: “The horse is gay, man, what’s the problem?” “Sam was adamant his equine gaydar was accurate,” eyewitness Daniel Cooper told The Oxford Student. The officers deemed Brown’s comments to be a breach of the public order act and decided to arrest him. “It was a massive sense of humour failure on the part of the policemen. They radioed for backup and then proceeded to pursue him at a trot,” recalled Cooper.
When questioned on the offence, Brown expressed regret at his comments. “I swear to hold back on gender preference assumptions if they allow me to meet animals in the future,” he said.
Question. Is it “insulting” to a police horse to call it gay if it is?
This story must be a hoax.
Police hate arrests because of all the paperwork it creates.
If one officer starts petty arrests, the others will get on his back about it.
They don’t want to waste their time with moronic stuff when there is plenty of real crime out there.
Yeah, Must be a hoax. Police would never do anything stupid.
They gave the local police around here taser guns, which are dumb.
I was reading a story about some police tasering other police. There was an arrest and the police pulled a taser. The perp had a handgun and shot the officer in the hand. We had a local police officer arrested for involvement in a meth lab, so I guess the police have some dumb people. They passed the test, so it didn’t matter. They were good at test taking. This is an academic idea. Pass the test, get a badge and do paperwork. No need for a secretary with the police officers doing all the typing. With all the cameras watching, you won’t even need police that can see. Justice is blind, so what the hell.
I believe that the police were right in arresting that person for his demeaning, indecent and vulgar comment. What protections should people have if they’re trying to be a public nuisance? It would be an offense to any respectable pet owner to have to put up with the continual insult of someone saying repeatedly that your pet is gay.
In the old days you might get smacked in the head with a night stick and told to go home. Who are you gonna call, the police?
As uncle shel whoud say >”And the pony looked a littled bit bored”
Just exactly how, I wonder, did the gentleman know of the horse’s sexual preference? Has he been jumping the fence at the horsepig compound? Or maybe it’s just wish fullfillment, but just ’cause a guy has a thing for a horse doesn’t mean the horse returns the feeling. Or maybe he’s (the guy) is jealous cause the horse fools around with the other stallions, or maybe even the geldings, and not him. And that whole gelding thing surely must complicate the issue for the horses. What do you do with what amounts to three sexes?
Or is it just a Brit thing?