Professor Whitty Accosted In Park

[Stickybottle]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57648608

You can always rely on the great British public eh a day after one of the Professors involved in making the covid vaccine was cheered at Wimbledon

[Sqad]

Exactly Bobbi.

[ToraToraTora]

MM, the ink's not dry on your membership card yet. Do some research.

[ToraToraTora]

sorry wrong thread ^^^^

[Lie-in King]

I hope these idiots are made to regret their actions very soon.

[eve1974]

Yeah drunken crettins but hardly dangerous.

[gness]

I don't know about hardly dangerous, Eve. How many times have we read of an elderly person being attacked in a somewhat similar way and having a heart attack?

I also think that the most danger those two will cause to the whole of society is that they will breed.

[Ken4155]

Eve, had Whitty believed he was about to be attacked and had pushed them away, who knows what may have ensued. Why couldn't they have just recognised him and politely asked for the selfie with him? Instead of the inane uttering and throwing themselves around the poor guy's neck.

[Peter Pedant]

// Why has the BBC hidden their faces?//
the stock Beeb excuse by a skool leeva is that "so that it doesnt prejudice a criminal charge"

( altho halting a case thro prejudicial publicity ( I cant remember the last time) is rare and attended with howls of dismay from the usual suspects - - oh Daniel Morgan ( axe in head DM) - the policeman who was 'sure' a business associate had done it - - - coached a witness and the whole case got chucked in perpetuity)

Daniel Morgan elicited precisely NO thread when it was news last week. Fu-Fu kicks a dog and gets 7 d in the nick got 127 posts from outraged AB dog and cat lovers. Horses for courses

[burlyshirley]

Who's Fu Fu ???

[Peter Pedant]

Sqad - I thought a doctor should be able to handle a drunk (better)

but he did look pretty terrified

[Peter Pedant]

fu-fu is a dog kicker who got far too light a sentence

[burlyshirley]

But that's not his real name, surely ?

[Sqad]

LOL PP.......long time ago when I was a Casualty Officer.
I tried to humour them if at all possible but it didn't always work and I feel that if Prof Whitty was that kind of temperament and allowed them to take a selfie, then this rather unsavory and embarrassing situation could have been avoided.
All blown out of proportion in my opinion.

[jno]

the fourth time it's happened, Sqad

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/29/concerns-grow-for-chris-whittys-safety-after-fourth-harassment-incident

I think when //demonstrators gathered outside what they thought was his home and shouted “murderer”// it's about more than taking selfies.

[Sqad]

Jno.....I thought this thread was about the recent event and I was answering the post of PP.

[jno]

I know, Sqad, it's only just come out that it's happened before, but it explains why he wouldn't want to hang around for photos.

[gness]

If we consider behaviour like this to be blown out of proportion and let it go at that it becomes acceptable and grows.

[Sqad]

gness...you are correct.

[gness]

I think so, Sqad. Reminds me of being at school. If we reprimanded a pupil we'd often, very often, get the parent in to tell us off or even threaten us.
You can imagine the free pass that gave to the gloating children.

I was once followed along a corridor by a mother and child with the child saying....that's her Mum....you going to hit her now.

Mind you, the last I read about that child he was jailed for drug offences and car theft. Bet Mum excused that too though.

[Peter Pedant]

MM, the ink's not dry on your membership card yet. Do some research.
ToraToraTora sorry wrong thread ^^^^

erm makes perfect sense to me - OK consistent with the other statements er sense within the AB meaning