Please Don’T Mock This Man’S Hair, Or The Police Will Be On To You

[Gromit]

Police in south Wales have warned people who have mocked the hairstyle of a wanted drug dealer that they could find themselves facing prosecution.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/4D6A/production/_108281891_wanted.jpg

[aelmpvw]

hopefully this fugitive will soon by grabbed by the fuzz

[douglas9401]

Sadly and due to cutbacks vengeance bears are no longer available, we are though able to offer visits from BCSOs, Bear Community Support Ocelots.

[Old_Geezer]

Wouldn't it have been better for the Lord to present a wig to Elisha and thus avoided the whole issue ?

[Gromit]

The police say anyone mocking his hair face prosecution.
Obviously no one will be prosecuted, so why bother saying it.

[ludwig]

// BCSOs, Bear Community Support Ocelots. //

I've seen them patrolling in their panda cars.

[Zacs-Master]

two bears tearing apart 42 children. Must have been a Grizzly sight.

[Gromit]

God had 42 children killed by bears for laughing at someone’s bald head?
That is zero tolerance gone too far. And people revere this God?

[ludwig]

// Obviously no one will be prosecuted, so why bother saying it. //

They just want it publicised, so we can all have a good laugh

[beso]

The Lord actually prefers the smell of burning flesh but blood and guts will do if you don't have a Fire Starter.

[Zacs-Master]

To be fair, it's only in the King James version that they get torn apart. It's been dumbed-down to 'mauled' in later versions.

[beso]

Gromit //God had 42 children killed by bears for laughing at someone’s bald head? //

It makes me suspect all the artist's impressions of God with wispy hair were misguided. I recon he is a bald as a bowling ball and doesn't have a sense of humour about it.

[anotheoldgit]

There is a TV advert showing a black woman sitting behind a ginger haired white guy, and she looks at his hair which in turn reminds her of a bag of chips, should that avert be banned?

[ummmm]

In that advert his hair was dyed.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm
What difference does that make?

[Ellipsis]

There's nothing wrong with his hair, but they seem to have printed his picture upside-down.

[Old_Geezer]

Well, it's food for thought.

[Peter Pedant]

// Can we mock his hair without being malicious? I need to clarify the legal position before I start mocking..//

oh... yes you can
recently came up in court - if you do something without guilty intent ( mens rea) then could you still be guilty of the crime?
Supreme Ct said no

having gone thro the law student bete nwaaar - Sweet v Parsley 1970. Landlord convicted of drug dealing because unknown to him his tenants were dealers.
Over-ruled by HL. There has to be a mental element ( = mens rea)

Came up in r v Letts 2018- Parents were indicted for sending money to young Letts ( letts minor) to fly home from er jihadi -land, indicted for financing terrorism. was there a mental element to this or did sending money suffice?

held - yes there was a mental element

when the case 2019 came to trial - the above case was a rare what-if, it was found the parents did have the required mental element and so they were convicted

well sorry - you asked !

[Peter Pedant]

// There is a TV advert....... jibber jabber yap yap yap - incredibly the racist old man hasnt dragged the phrase "black moron" hair ...... into all this which in turn reminds her of a bag of chips, should that avert be banned?

no - in this case not only is there no mental element ( intention to mock or insult ) , there is no guilty act ( actrus reus).

full house of inncence there then

[dannyk13]

PP // if you do something without guilty intent ( mens rea) then could you still be guilty of the crime? //
Yes you can, if at the time it is reasonable to assume that the defendant should have known the consequences of his action.A case
stated from long ago:- A thief entered the cellar of a house and sawed through the gas pipes in order to steal the lead.Convicted of manslaughter.

[dannyk13]

^ should have mentioned that an occupant of the house died of gas poisoning^