From: jethro_uk@hotmailbin.com 
  
 On Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:56:58 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote: 
  
 > 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. 
  
 The process is the punishment. 
  
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