Be Careful What You Say Or Post

[Noe-schitt]

A man’s tweet gets him arrested by police
\\A message posted on his Twitter profile on Wednesday morning stated: "I confronted a Muslim woman yesterday in Croydon. I asked her to explain Brussels. She said 'Nothing to do with me'. A mealy mouthed reply."\\

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-03-24/man-who-confronted-muslim-woman-to-explain-brussels-is-arrested/

[jackthehat]

The man is a plonker but arresting him, based on what has been reported, seems a little heavy-handed.

[douglas9401]

Odd that a simple question gets a man arrested yet berobed dellusionals can block roads with impunity as they play 'bobbing up and down like this' with their invisible friend.

[Gromit]

Straightforward harrassment if true.

And stupid enough to tell everyone on the world wide web.

If "don't be a plonker" is a lession, then he has indeed learned it.

[mikey4444]

What a stupid story.

As has been said, the man is a complete plonker. If the Muslim woman had a husband with her at the time, this husband would have been justified in replying with great gusto.

But what planet are the Plods on ? What on earth are, or were they going to charge him with ?

[Islay]

Arrested - no, given a rollocking - yes

Unfortunately there have now been a string of similar type events. How would you feel if you were in this ladies position - bang out of order!

[Peter Pedant]

Mikey - your long sjourn in Cornwall has rotted your brains

you are arrested on suspicion and Retro etc will tell you how much ( not much hur hur hut ) and it would be harassment most like

charging is later
I am not sure if he will be charged ....

[douglas9401]

Aggravated opinion seeking, Mikey.
Meanwhile, at a location near you, real crime is going on but our multicultural, inclusive lawmen are too busy to attend.

[Peter Pedant]

This I think is a lesson Mary Queen of Scots could have learnt 1585-7

on her i-phone
no I mean that other people read your mail
before or after you lose your head

altho altho in this case the facts were different - the tweeter WANTED people to read his tweet

[Peter Pedant]

Dougie
a very accurate point I agree

[Peter Pedant]

somewhere near you there is a policeman sitting on his b+ttom
wondering if Lord so and so really did feel Nicks knickers in a kids home in 1957

whilst the DPP exclaims to the cameras - yes yes this is what modern policing is all about ....

[mikey4444]

PP...my long sojourn here in Cornwall is just over 24 hours so far, so brains not quite rotted yet.

If all that happens is what has been reported, that I can't see anything aggravated at all. So next time I ask someone in the Pub, why they voted Tory last year, or why they parked up on the pavement out side, I can be expected to be arrested can I ?

So.... the next time you are burgled, or your car is damaged by some scrote, dragging his keys along the side, the reason that the Police are "too busy" to investigate is not because they are dealing with another burglary up the road, but that they are dealing with minor nonsense like this ?

The man is a ***, and deserves a telling off, but the Police should be concentrating their actions on real crime.

[anotheoldgit]

The twitter comments were no worse than the one's some of us get on AB, when wee post something that some don't agree with, but if you read the Telegraph's fuller report, some including the police have taken it all too far.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12202181/Angry-backlash-against-Croydon-man-who-confonted-Muslim-woman-and-told-her-to-explain-Brussels.html

[anotheoldgit]

'we'

[Gromit]

AOG

The tweet is not offensive. He was not arrested for the Tweet, he was arrested because he confessed to harrassing someone in the Tweet. It was the action that made the police interested not the writing.

[jackthehat]

He has a Muslim neighbour......so that's all right, then....

[chiaroscuro]

The ridicule his stupidity has attracted on social media is punishment enough.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// The tweet is not offensive. He was not arrested for the Tweet, he was arrested because he confessed to harrassing someone in the Tweet. It was the action that made the police interested not the writing. ///

Then did he not harass the woman vie the typed word in the Tweet, but by a particular action against her?

If the later, how did he do that?

[anotheoldgit]

I wonder what the reaction would have been if the Woman had asked him to explain Iraq?

[Gromit]

A tweet would only be illegal if it contained a threat, but this one didn't.

If I tweeted that I had just stolen a car which then resulted in a visit by the police, it isn't the words that got me arrested it would be the deed.

Basically this fool grassed on himself.

[bazwillrun]

"I wonder what the reaction would have been if the Woman had asked him to explain Iraq? "

we all know the answer to that AOG...nada...