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Britain: Mocking suspect's hairstyle could get you prosecuted, police warn
The Telegraph ^ | Aug. 12, 2019 | Telegraph Reporters

Posted on 08/12/2019 9:44:03 AM PDT by rickmichaels

Police have warned social media users they could face arrest if they "troll" a wanted drug dealer by mocking his distinctive hairstyle.

An online appeal to catch the criminal has resulted in tens of thousands of people posting joke comments.

Jermaine Taylor, 21, is wanted for breaching his licence conditions after being released from prison in December 2018.

Gwent Police launched the social media appeal to find the convicted drug dealer, but it backfired when people began making jokes about his hairstyle, with one saying it had been "pushed back more times than Brexit".

The picture shows Taylor with a large, bald forehead and two tufts of hair sticking up.

Twitter users joked: "His forehead is bigger than his future," and "that hairline goes further back than Woolworths".

Another quipped: "Looks like his hairline is on the run too."

The large number of comments prompted Gwent Police to warn users that posting abusive material could be against the law.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brexit; brexitparty; jermainetaylor; nigelfarage; unitedkingdom
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To: rickmichaels

Rather a lower class subject of Babylon 5’s Centari Republic...


21 posted on 08/12/2019 9:58:53 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Steve_Seattle

Even as a food preparer?...................they don’t make hair nets that big!................


22 posted on 08/12/2019 9:59:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: cuban leaf
One of my favorite jokes is quite similar.

An old man keeps looking at this young guy with multicolored dyed hair at a bus stop.

Finally, the exasperated young guy asks: "Whassa matter Gramps, didn't you every do anything wild when you were young?"

"Sure did," said the old man. "Got sloppy drunk once and had sex with a parrot. I was wondering if you might be the result!"

23 posted on 08/12/2019 9:59:13 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I do it all the time. Seriously. Even if my wife is with me.

The key is to sound like you are dead serious and sincere. I do it with some tattoos too. :)

I never knew this about old people, but now that I’m living it - I sorta see this like I’m a character in a video game. There is nothing I value that is at stake in these situations. I do all I can to be in His will, but this kind of stuff is fun, and they often don’t know how to take such a sincere fascination with their hair color.

I also argue back way too often (even on free republic), beginning with these words, “Well, on my home planet...”

It’s just fun to mess with people’s minds and be thought the fool from time to time. My wife knows better, and her opinion is the only one that counts. Literally. Of course, that is because we come from the same home planet. :)


24 posted on 08/12/2019 10:02:47 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: rickmichaels

25 posted on 08/12/2019 10:02:49 AM PDT by null and void (Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.)
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To: dfwgator
"How do you prove that someone wasn’t hired because of their haircut?"

The potential employer could have said in the interview, "I can't hire you with hair like that. To accommodate your hairstyle, I'd have to raise all the ceilings in my office."

But the law just doesn't pertain to hiring. An employer cannot ask an employee to change their hairstyle, or even criticize it.
26 posted on 08/12/2019 10:02:58 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Just don’t mention their hair, then don’t hire them.

Problem solved.


27 posted on 08/12/2019 10:05:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

A couple of decades ago I had finally had it with string bikini’s as well. I would see a woman with large breasts and virtually nothing covering them up and say, “you have very nice breasts”. as I walked by. Nobody ever complained, but if they had, I would have said, “My apologies. The way you are displaying them, I just thought you were going for that response.”

But I only did that a few times and decided they might actually like it, and that was not what I was going for.


28 posted on 08/12/2019 10:05:36 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: All

Tyranny! We got them out of here with the American Revolution. But now Democrats are trying to bring it back. Read the “Declaration of Independenc. You’ll be amazed how much has already be taken away. Political correctness is censorship and tyranny.


29 posted on 08/12/2019 10:05:37 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: rickmichaels

30 posted on 08/12/2019 10:07:53 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Gwent Police launched the social media appeal to find the convicted drug dealer, but it backfired when people began making jokes about his hairstyle, with one saying it had been "pushed back more times than Brexit". The picture shows Taylor with a large, bald forehead and two tufts of hair sticking up. Twitter users joked: "His forehead is bigger than his future," and "that hairline goes further back than Woolworths". Another quipped: "Looks like his hairline is on the run too." The large number of comments prompted Gwent Police to warn users that posting abusive material could be against the law.
The jokes are pretty good. Doubtful about the existence of such etiquette laws, even in Britain.

31 posted on 08/12/2019 10:08:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

how are they gonna prove the person wasn’t fired because of the hair? an employer is allowed to refuse to hire people for any number of reasons-


32 posted on 08/12/2019 10:09:28 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: rickmichaels

Unless of course the drug dealer is white. Then mock away freely!


33 posted on 08/12/2019 10:10:26 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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Dear Bobbies,

If you have the time and resources to threaten or arrest folks for mocking people on-line, then you damn well better have tracked and arrested every immigrant terrorist who has made on-line threats to the British citizenry.

34 posted on 08/12/2019 10:10:55 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: cuban leaf

As long as collars and cuffs match it’’s ok.


35 posted on 08/12/2019 10:11:44 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: rickmichaels

England is committing suicide. I’m not sure if Scotland and Wales have the same idiotic policies/laws. Hope not since my ancestors came from Scotland.


36 posted on 08/12/2019 10:12:55 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: A Navy Vet

My ancestors bugged outta Britain in the 1630s.

Best decision the family has ever made.


37 posted on 08/12/2019 10:14:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: rickmichaels

They must not want me to visit the UK again.


38 posted on 08/12/2019 10:19:54 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: rickmichaels

People with unusual hairstyles have then to get attention. He got attention. He can’t expect all the attention to be positive, especially when he looks like a doofus.


39 posted on 08/12/2019 10:26:05 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: rickmichaels

The guy could be on a warning poster about the dangers of sticking a fork in an electrical outlet.


40 posted on 08/12/2019 10:29:07 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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