This character offends me

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/showbiz/cbb/12 2745/Coolio-has-a-deadly-arsenal-of-54-lethal- weaponsmdashincluding-a-MACHINE-GUN.html

Never mind what Prince Harry said, I find this more offensive.

Should this character now be banned, not only from our screens, but also from our country?

[scotstone]

He's black - different rules!

[1rovert]

He's also american, what else do you expect, they are tainting the world with their depravaties.

[tigerlily11]

Thats why he's in CBB.
Nobody gives a flying fart about what he says or does. So much so that he has to come here to get attention because they are obviously bored with him in the US.
Besides Harry is part of a family that is supposed to set an example to the rest of us on how to behave. But it never has.

[QueenOfAmber]

lol at nk!

Hey!!! rovert! just because
in the states everyone has
a gun and you are constantly
in danger doesn't mean we
don't have feelings...
what am I saying?

Heck yeah you're right.

[Gourmander]

I love your American accent Q Of A!

[Goodsoulette]

I wouldn't want to be left alone with anyone who collected guns. It seems a little mentally unhinged to me. I'm from a farming background so I am used to being around them to some degree but they bother me greatly.

I hope when he gets back to the States he faces some sort of investigation. Would firearms offenses like that stop him from reentering the country? I would kind of hope so.

[smudge]

With a hat like that, yes he should be banned!

What a p-r-a-t!

[jno]

what exactly are you proposing? That anyone who has committed a crime in their own country (or says he has) should be banned from travelling abroad? That would certainly stop a lot of Britons from taking their holidays, and mean they had to spend them at home, thus stopping an outflow of capital, so it might be a good idea. On the other hand, it would make a big and perhaps rather harsh change to modern life.

[New Judge]

But that is precisely what happens to UK citizens when they try to travel to the USA, jno.

Seems it's a shame we don't have a reciprocal arrangement.

[jake-the-peg]

I thought they were not banned from travelling to the States NewJudge just from using the Visa Waver scheme.

[jno]

it doesn't apply to all crimes, New Judge, though the information available makes it unclear exactly what crimes are covered, which is why so many people come onto AB to inquire. There's a case for making all agreements reciprocal. I certainly disagree with us handing over computer hackers to spend the rest of their lives in a US jail when they could be tried and sentenced right here, while the USA refuses to allow its citizens to be tried abroad.

[rov1200]

I'm glad we don't object to being called BRITS! How much can be made of the work '*****' I can't fathom.

[andy-hughes]

Relax oldgit.

Coolio is a rapper, and therefore a braggart and a poseur.

He lives in a world where people boast all the time - with the truth being the first casualty.

In his own society, Coolio would be respected and even feared for his 'hard' attitude, wheras over here he simply comes acrosss as a twit!

If you ignore him, he will eventually go away.

[andy-hughes]

Steady on doc - being an idiot doesn't always result in a death sentence!

Someone has got to look after the country!

[littleoldme]

B** B****** (whether celeb or pleb version) offends me. Hang on...Coolio making the news for controversial reasons and garnering publicity by appearing on Celebrity B** B******? Don't suppose by any chance he's got a new album coming out soon, has he?