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Is It Legal To Have *** To Brexit On Your Car?
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As much as I agree with the sentiment, I don't think having a starred out swear word on your car is a public order offence. If it did actually spell out the word then maybe.
As much as I agree with the sentiment, I don't think having a starred out swear word on your car is a public order offence. If it did actually spell out the word then maybe.
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''the driver of the car was left "terrified and shaking".''
purlease.
Weird lot in Kent.
I've read somewhere an MOT can be failed if you have an air-freshener dangling from the rear-view mirror. Which hasn't got much to do with this post other than give another example of either fake news or another means to get money from the motorist.
purlease.
Weird lot in Kent.
I've read somewhere an MOT can be failed if you have an air-freshener dangling from the rear-view mirror. Which hasn't got much to do with this post other than give another example of either fake news or another means to get money from the motorist.
It wasn't starred out it was the full word. Apparently this came to court when the Sex Pistols brought out their "Never Mind The......" album and a judge ruled that the word could legally be used in public. I think this particular policeman made a mistake and that his boss will point this out to him.
The Public Order Act 1986 states:
"A person is guilty of an offence if he . . . displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening or abusive"
If he does so "with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress", then "threatening or abusive" is extended to read "threatening, abusive or insulting".
The Act also states:
"It is a defence for the accused to prove . . . that his conduct was reasonable".
As the sign displayed on the car didn't threaten anyone, nor was it abusive to anyone, it's hard to see how an offence could have been committed.
It's ultimately up to a court to decide (if the matter gets that far) exactly what is, or isn't, "threatening or abusive" but there have been some interesting (and, in my opinion, rather odd) court decisions. For example, in 2002 a street preacher was successfully prosecuted under the Act for standing next to a sign reading "Stop Immorality, Stop Homosexuality, Stop Lesbianism" but I can't see how he actually fell foul of the wording about the sign being "threatening, abusive or insulting". (At that time 'insulting' was included within the terms of the Act, even when there was no intent to cause alarm harassment, alarm or distress).
There have been other cases though, without any prosecution, where people have been told to remove signs, including this one which was displayed in the window of a café in 2011:
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"A person is guilty of an offence if he . . . displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening or abusive"
If he does so "with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress", then "threatening or abusive" is extended to read "threatening, abusive or insulting".
The Act also states:
"It is a defence for the accused to prove . . . that his conduct was reasonable".
As the sign displayed on the car didn't threaten anyone, nor was it abusive to anyone, it's hard to see how an offence could have been committed.
It's ultimately up to a court to decide (if the matter gets that far) exactly what is, or isn't, "threatening or abusive" but there have been some interesting (and, in my opinion, rather odd) court decisions. For example, in 2002 a street preacher was successfully prosecuted under the Act for standing next to a sign reading "Stop Immorality, Stop Homosexuality, Stop Lesbianism" but I can't see how he actually fell foul of the wording about the sign being "threatening, abusive or insulting". (At that time 'insulting' was included within the terms of the Act, even when there was no intent to cause alarm harassment, alarm or distress).
There have been other cases though, without any prosecution, where people have been told to remove signs, including this one which was displayed in the window of a café in 2011:
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It is legal, and as a swear word it is relatively mild.
The PC has overstepped the mark.
People may be offended by the slogan, but people are offended by everything these days.
There is a brand of Ale called Dog’s b*******cks which is available at most supermarkets, so are the police going to go to thousands of stores and pubs demanding its removal?
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The PC has overstepped the mark.
People may be offended by the slogan, but people are offended by everything these days.
There is a brand of Ale called Dog’s b*******cks which is available at most supermarkets, so are the police going to go to thousands of stores and pubs demanding its removal?
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AB's swear filter doesn't like your link, Gromit!
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Lol, the AB filter has *** up the url :-)
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"Mr Cook, 61, from Kent, told Sky News being pulled over on the hard shoulder was "totally unsafe" and that the driver of the car was left "terrified and shaking"."
He later added that in all his time serving as a Royal Marine AND later keeping a bidey in he'd never felt so impotent.
Mr Cook later said he had a cunning plan.
He later added that in all his time serving as a Royal Marine AND later keeping a bidey in he'd never felt so impotent.
Mr Cook later said he had a cunning plan.
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