71 year old skater in a shopping centre is found guilty.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7908376.stm

I want to use the entire audio from that clip as a sample

(What is it? I had it on silent)

It's just a couple of reporters talking. But I think it'd make a good sample.

DANGEROUS!
SKATING!

SKATER HATERS! This old guy is also in a grime crew.

last of the old steamers

Wait, when did this become a crime? All those whiners going on about how you were going to be criminalised for picking your nose in BlairBrown's Britain, were they right all along?

it's pretty fucking reckless. It's the middle of a shopping precinct or something? He'd totally take out a toddler or whatever if he bumped in to them.

it's just a local bylaw, apparently.

When I was young, I thought all the SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A CRIME kids were way-cool and totally right, straight up until one of them started telling me it was unfair that he couldn't skateboard in the mall.

The problem for local authorities is that if they don't take this fellow to court what's to stop everybody skating around and then someone gets hurt and everyone is all WHY DIDN'T THE COUNCIL STOP THIS MENACE!

I ASSERT MY RIGHT TO SKATE HARMLESSLY!!!

This guy is something of a celebrity on youtube

I'm more creeped out by the controllable, "follow the menace" cctv cams they have everywhere in the UK now (and probably here, too, tbh)

dude thinks cos he's grey he'll try some airy zen defence like he knew he wouldn't hit anyone and SEE how he didn't. just another bigheaded arse who doesn't understand that bucking the system doesn't involve putting on roller blades when you go collect your pension.

I'm more creeped out by the controllable, "follow the menace" cctv cams they have everywhere in the UK now (and probably here, too, tbh)

CCTV in Australia catching up UK from what I understand. It's an interesting subject which is not given proper debate. In my village there is overwhelming support for CCTV in the village centre and park to stop perceived anti-social behaviour oftern from the same people who complain about the nanny state and 'Big Brother' speed cameras.

The people who want speed bumps in their road, and not on any of the roads they drive down...

I await Noel Edmonds' statement on behalf of the defence.

he does go pretty fast.. but no ollies no glory obviously.

Meanwhile, the killers of Stephen Lawrence remain free 16 years later.

oh, good point.

Pick on soft targets to meet targets and ignore the real criminals. Can't be that long until we hear "I am sure the House of Commons will join me in extending a warm welcome to our new Prime Minister Mr Mugabe..." since the way things are going we might as well be in Zimbabwe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1195000/images/_1195266_hemphill300.jpg

Don't think they have CCTV in Zimbabwe.

I heard there was a murder going on in the shopping centre at that moment, and the police all saw it, and then arrested the old skater because it meant filling in a shorter form back at the station.

something about A Good Story

Can't be that long until we hear "I am sure the House of Commons will join me in extending a warm welcome to our new Prime Minister Mr Mugabe..." since the way things are going we might as well be in Zimbabwe.

You think the floating voters of Middle England will go for him over the Nazis?

That's how it'll be. Not one big clampdown. Just little bits eroded, one at a time, until we wake up one morning to find bars on our windows.

All for money and all to satisfy the Meejah.

Hope Dacre, Wade and Clifford enjoy the cowardly new world they're creating.

this is a ruddy disgrace

political correctness gone mad more like Gordon MUGABE amirite?

we need less regulations in today's hyper regulated society. regulations for none, rules for others.

The way it seems to me:

Old man gets arrested for mad skating. People outcry because it is an old man and not a youth. Including the old man himself. Had it been a youth, the people complaining would be "that is how it should be"

sorry, forgot the sarcasm.

he should be released because of joie de vivre

I will say: The award of costs against him was ridiculous.

The bylaw is in place because the council are afraid of getting sued by ambulance chasing "victims" and their "solicitors."

The Labour Government is acting like a hard-right Tory Government because they're afraid of the tabloids.

The BBC is destroying itself because it's afraid that the tabloids will slag it off and the Government will cut off its money supply.

Thus is a society progressively crippled by fear.

The pavements are so shockingly bumpy in Zimbabwe, the skaters there have a saying, "the way things are going we might as well be in Ormskirk"

we need a crackdown on "solicitors" first of all.

http://blogs.fayobserver.com/faytoz/files/2008/08/yoda.jpg

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In a crippled society, we will all be victims, and there'll be no more need for inverted commas.

"Skater haters should hobble back home to take their medication and to watch Countdown."

Dr Morbius???

Perhaps these so-called "solicitors" should go to Zimbabwe and see how they like it there?

The bylaw is in place to stop people being injured by skaters/skateboarders/cyclists. Seems completely sensible to me.

injured or "annoyed", it says.

It's certainly "annoyed" someone.

I suppose they'll soon start sentencing miscreants to limb amputation to stop them offending again. All for their own protection, of course.

why stop there? why not simply inject their parents to make each child a perfectly straightened banana from birth. but it won't end there, oh no. eventually the europhiles will read your children bedtime stories in which the protagonists are condoms.

May as well vote in Emperor Leopold II and have done with it.

Maybe it's me, but I can't tell whether Marcello is serious or not any more.

ambulance chasing "victims"

I don't understand this. Why are the ambulances there at all if the victims are well enough to give chase? Or are the ambulances doing the chasing?

the "victims" are on rollerblades, trying to escape "ambulances" which will take them to Gordon Brown's death camps.

I suppose they'll soon start sentencing miscreants to limb amputation to stop them offending again. All for their own protection, of course.

And then they'll give them jobs frightening children on CBBC.

i blame the parents council.

and I blame the Style Council.

Message ends.

i blame the parents/council

i blame the lack of blame. more blame and shame is needed, less fame.

and names for fuck sake

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