Posted on 06/22/2010 1:48:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Police are pondering just what charges two East Yorkshire men will face after they were nabbed giving away free porn DVDs from a burger van in Driffield.
The van, or more accurately a caravan as the snap here shows, was parked in a garden in an area of the Capital of the Wolds "popular with young revellers attending late-night bars and clubs at the weekend".
Sergeant Dave Jenkins, of the Driffield Neighbourhood Policing Team, explained: "The van had been operating for about two weeks. We received complaints that free porn DVDs were being offered to everyone who spent £5 or more on beer and burgers.
"Undercover officers made test purchases and found this to be true before Saturday night's operation when the caravan was seized. We won't tolerate this because youngsters could have been given the DVDs."
The unnamed cuffees apparently had no licence to sell nosh and booze, and just to make sure they really landed themselves in it, were enjoying some pornographic entertainment on a TV inside their premises when cops busted them.
Police licensing officer PC Carolyn Grundy gasped: "It is unbelievable customers were being offered porn DVDs with their beer and burgers at an outlet that did not even have the necessary licences."
She concluded: "The operation went well and we are now looking at the evidence to see what offences have been committed."
The pornmongering pair have been bailed pending charges, and their freebies dispatched to East Riding Council's trading standards department for doubtless close examination.
Hold the mustard and “Star Whores” please.
sick
...and their freebies dispatched to East Riding Council's trading standards department for doubtless close examination.
CLOSE examination... along with several burgers and a few pints no doubt.
The Brits are against free enterprise?
I guess the Brits are becoming anti-American. Who would complain about porn happy meals?
Cute...
Not exactly a large place - I got lost there last September..:^)
If the kids knew about it, I’m guessing the local Plod was not doing his duty, or perhaps there isn’t even a local police station there any more - centralization, you know...:^)
Porn licensing? Heh. The UK government is clearly doing the work of the people.
“We will not have you peddling videos of naked women doing naked-women-stuff without our special ‘Naked Women Doing Stuff Video Peddling Licence’.”
They are standing athwart immorality and saying “Not without our permission!! (and a nominal fee)”
SnakeDoc
Here in America they are trying to outlaw selling burgers and giving away free toys.
And the hysteria that they would be giving the DVDs to kids? Late at night? Outside a bar? While selling beer?
Maybe parents need to keep better tabs on their kids rather than letting them go hitting the town.
Also unusual is that they could be arrested first, held, and they still don’t know what they will charge the men with.
Fishing expedition. Then again, over there you are not declared “innocent until proven guilty”.
Our ancestors came to establish this nation for a reason.
He would have been given a reason for being arrested, something like distributing indecent material or something along those lines. When they got to the cop shop, they might have discovered that due to some technicality or some other reason, the charge does not fit the crime. That is apart from the fact that he is selling food without a license in breach of health and safety regulations (food vendors have to be suitably qualified and assessed before selling food to members of the public)....
The UK takes one more step towards becoming a real life Idiocracy.
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