You just won't believe this !!!!!
- Thread starter Robbo
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In law website owners are held accountable for all content on their site as much as the users who put it there.
Eg if I posted something massively obscene on here eg, indecent images of children, I would be held accountable for having and distributing them, Robbo COULD be held accountable for "allowing" them on the site.
Fortunately for website owners the law isn't completely retarded and understand that due to the nature of the internet not everything is as black and white so each case is looked at its merits.
Abbott has tried to exploit this as Pete had "allowed" a "homophobic" comment in his signature... but again, common sence on the behalf of the CID kills that off and hopefully it will backfire and bite him in the arse.
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This whole affair is straining even my limits of incredulity; I get another phone call tonight from the same CID officer I talked to yesterday and yet another chapter unfurls itself from abbott's dreary, insignificant life.
His campaign against me stumbles from one disaster to the next as he nudges open the envelope of ideas marked, insane.
I had quite a long talk with this officer and it seems she is in complete agreement with me that the Surrey CID has much more important things to be dealing with, than this sorry affair.
However, since abbott has taken it upon himself to make a formal complaint about me to the Surrey Police, she is bound to follow this through.
It now transpires that abbott initially got in touch with the police to try and get them to stop me writing about him on these boards .... this sounds so infantile as to be impossible. A [supposedly] grown man running to the police and asking them to 'please stop this nasty man saying naughty things about me' .... once he made the complaint, the police wheels of motion began to turn.
The CID lady then asks me [very nicely] to maybe take off my 'poofs are gay' comment and to maybe desist from mentioning abbott any more.
She then added that she thought the 'poofs are gay' comment was maybe 'controversial'.
The basis for her request was apparently because it would bring about a hasty [and much needed] end to these proceedings ....... that it would, that it would.
I agreed with her it would bring an end to it all but at that point, I asked her if my 'poofs' comment was illegal, because as far as I knew being 'controversial' wasn't against the law.
She didn't really give me a definite answer to my question and I told her there was no way I was gonna take down the 'poof' comment and there was equally no way I was gonna stop mentioning abbott.
I also told her that I intended to keep within the law but as far as I knew, this was a free country and I was free to write what I liked as long as it broke no laws, she agreed.
I wasn't intending, or wishing, to come across as being obstinate or awkward but I wasn't gonna change anything if I wasn't breaking the law, especially just because abbott didn't agree with it all.
I did explain that all this begun because of abbott's attempted theft and family insult, and all he had to have done to put a stop to this was to apologise, which it seemed he was unable to do.
She told me she would be talking to abbott tonight and she would get back to me, I exchanged the normal pleasantries and that was that.
This leaves a sour taste in my mouth because it was all so unnecessary, all we are seemingly left with is, abbott's pathology .... which in itself seems hell-bent on destroying him and his career ..... shame really
This whole affair is straining even my limits of incredulity; I get another phone call tonight from the same CID officer I talked to yesterday and yet another chapter unfurls itself from abbott's dreary, insignificant life.
His campaign against me stumbles from one disaster to the next as he nudges open the envelope of ideas marked, insane.
I had quite a long talk with this officer and it seems she is in complete agreement with me that the Surrey CID has much more important things to be dealing with, than this sorry affair.
However, since abbott has taken it upon himself to make a formal complaint about me to the Surrey Police, she is bound to follow this through.
It now transpires that abbott initially got in touch with the police to try and get them to stop me writing about him on these boards .... this sounds so infantile as to be impossible. A [supposedly] grown man running to the police and asking them to 'please stop this nasty man saying naughty things about me' .... once he made the complaint, the police wheels of motion began to turn.
The CID lady then asks me [very nicely] to maybe take off my 'poofs are gay' comment and to maybe desist from mentioning abbott any more.
She then added that she thought the 'poofs are gay' comment was maybe 'controversial'.
The basis for her request was apparently because it would bring about a hasty [and much needed] end to these proceedings ....... that it would, that it would.
I agreed with her it would bring an end to it all but at that point, I asked her if my 'poofs' comment was illegal, because as far as I knew being 'controversial' wasn't against the law.
She didn't really give me a definite answer to my question and I told her there was no way I was gonna take down the 'poof' comment and there was equally no way I was gonna stop mentioning abbott.
I also told her that I intended to keep within the law but as far as I knew, this was a free country and I was free to write what I liked as long as it broke no laws, she agreed.
I wasn't intending, or wishing, to come across as being obstinate or awkward but I wasn't gonna change anything if I wasn't breaking the law, especially just because abbott didn't agree with it all.
I did explain that all this begun because of abbott's attempted theft and family insult, and all he had to have done to put a stop to this was to apologise, which it seemed he was unable to do.
She told me she would be talking to abbott tonight and she would get back to me, I exchanged the normal pleasantries and that was that.
This leaves a sour taste in my mouth because it was all so unnecessary, all we are seemingly left with is, abbott's pathology .... which in itself seems hell-bent on destroying him and his career ..... shame really
On a serious note, I had a similar situation some years ago.
A member of my family went to the police and told them a fairy story about me stealing something from them.
To cut a long story short, the police understood my positon fully, and that the said item was not stolen.
However, their advice was to return it, as it was a matter of "He who makes the complaint first".
Not a fair result, but clearly a case of whoever throws the mud first makes it stick.
Pete, whilst it is unjust, in my view this will end up with you being forced to amend your sig.
A member of my family went to the police and told them a fairy story about me stealing something from them.
To cut a long story short, the police understood my positon fully, and that the said item was not stolen.
However, their advice was to return it, as it was a matter of "He who makes the complaint first".
Not a fair result, but clearly a case of whoever throws the mud first makes it stick.
Pete, whilst it is unjust, in my view this will end up with you being forced to amend your sig.
If that happens, lets all put it in our sigs.Pete, whilst it is unjust, in my view this will end up with you being forced to amend your sig.
