From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 4 Sep 2025 at 23:28:00 BST, "JNugent"  wrote: 
  
 > On 04/09/2025 11:07 PM, The Todal wrote: 
 > 
 >> On 04/09/2025 12:14, JNugent wrote: 
 >>> On 04/09/2025 11:45 AM, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 >>>> On 2025-09-04, Clive Page  wrote: 
 >> 
 >>>>> One can see that if you are police officer it's a much more exciting 
 >>>>> way to spend your day dashing onto the runway at Heathrow in a car 
 >>>>> with blue lights flashing along with four colleagues all brandishing 
 >>>>> guns than trying to investigating a real crime, which might, for 
 >>>>> example, involve watching a lot of boring CCTV footage.  So one 
 >>>>> can see their point of view, it's just not something that most of 
 >>>>> the public would support. 
 >> 
 >>>> Did any of that actually happen, or did you make it up? 
 >> 
 >>> You haven't been following the news, then? 
 >> 
 >> Can anyone quote the post that Mr Linehan made, that attracted the 
 >> attention of the police? 
 > 
 > Not I, and that's for certain. It was on Twitter / X, wasn't it? 
 > 
 > Does anyone actually take any notice of it? 
 > 
 > As for the man himself, I am not much of a fan. Well, except for "The IT 
 > Crowd", which sounded as though it was written by an adult with a sense 
 > of humour, as opposed to "Father Ted" which can only have been written 
 > by a precocious 13 year old who thought that using swear words made any 
 > old tripe into something funny. 
 > 
 >> The fact that he's famous or a comedy writer isn't really relevant. 
 >> 
 > It shouldn't be. But one can hardly overlook the possibility that it 
 > definitely was not irrelevant in this particular case. 
 > 
 >> If he was taunting or harassing a specific trans person, he fully 
 >> deserves to be arrested and questioned > 
 > 
 > Does he? Is what you say he did worse than "taunting or harassing" 
 > anyone else? 
 > 
 >> - whether he has committed an offence is for the CPS to judge. 
 > 
 > I'm sure your typing of "CPS" was a muscle memory typo for "jury". 
  
 If the CPS doesn't think he has committed an offence it won't ever get to a 
 court. 
  
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