Give me strength!

I think this article speaks for itself. It wasn't even a boy that did it.

I do not believe it! ::)

Though I understand how it can be hard for a 14yo to be teased on this issue, it does look as if the victim's family were using the incident to try and make a few quid. What a waste of taxpayers money.

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Took them long enough to decide to take offence at it.

Briton in doghouse over Jehovah's Witness sign
29 July 2006

LONDON: A British woman has been ordered by police to take down a sign on her garden gate which read 'Our dogs are fed on Jehovah's Witnesses.'

Pensioner Janet Grove, who owns a Jack Terrier puppy called Rabbit, insisted the sign was a gentle joke to discourage callers at her front door.

Her late husband put the sign up more than 30 years ago when members of the church called at their house on Christmas Day.

But police were forced to act after receiving a complaint.

'We were informed by a member of the public who found the sign to be distressing, offensive and inappropriate,' a police spokesman said. 'Officers attended the address and the sign was voluntarily taken down.'

- Reuters

I CAN'T BLOODY WELL BELIEVE IT !!!

What a ludicrous situation which had evolved out of the teenage innoccence, the sort of thing we all go through, but to be seen as an opportunity for the victims parents to seek compensation of ?2,000.00, well this certainly wasn't the young girls idea was it, and what do her parents think they teaching her, she may well inherit this attitude from them to grab money wherever possible and sieze all opportunities and sod the effect it has on anybody else, I feel for the poor girl who was prosecuted and her family as they have to live with this scar forever. What it the British nation coming to and what are our predecessor learning from our society, if your kids can no longer learn from their mistake without anything happening without such things taken to such lengths, to accomplish monetary payouts. WHAT A SHAME !!!

What a shambles the british nation is becoming, very glad I am emigrating to NZ and my kids will have a more unmaterialistic upbringing where money is NOT the be all and end all to life. How sad!!!

You guest it, it really touched a nerve with me !

I'll bet the girl and her bra get up to a hell of a lot worse than mere pinging, behind the bike shed in the school.

I wouldn't like to count the number of times my bra was pinged when I was in school along with all my peers' as well. We've grown up none the worse for it (apart from being 2,000 quid short ). It's all part of growing up.

I never appreciated having my bra snapped, and just wish I'd had the nerve to have slammed an elbow into my harasser. That'd probably get that sort of thing to stop. It is a type of sexual harassment, and when ignored leads to an attitude that women should put up with all sorts of puerile behavior by (mostly) men. ...It sounds like the girl in the news story got more personal by pinging the underwire. She may have learned a hell of a lesson about impulse control during that little miscarriage of justice.

When my car was vandalised, a lady police officer who came out about it had a black eye and some other bruising. I'm nosey so i asked her about it, and she said she was beaten up by some young teenagers, whilst on duty in full uniform. They were arrested, and released with a caution. Nothing ever happened to the little twats who did my car in either!

There are no laws against the criminals any more, just loop holes for harrasing innocent people who make innocent mistakes. I know the police need to do their job, they dont really have an option. But surely for that, even a police caution would be a little hard on her!

taffy i to am a bit nosey was that in the UK or NZ?

That was in the UK - where else!

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