[an0n]

What the internet needs is some piss-poor country to hijack a backbone and go vigilanty on all the illegal, immoral and free-hosted sites.

[Fineus]

Mmm, thats the problem - the internet is spread all over ****. Nobody can really claim to police it with any recognised authority.

Rictor: Point taken about the suicide thing, if someone wants to kill themselves then they should be allowed to do so as long as it harms nobody else in a physical manner.

[an0n]

If someone wants to kill themselves they should be provided with a gun and a Darwin Award.

[Rictor]

Personally, if I were keen on ending my life, at least I would try to get some money while doing it, to give to my family or a charity or something.

Robbing a bank, auctioning off the right to kill me, that sort of thing.

Oooh, that just gave me a great idea for a new reality show. Texas Execution. You get a bunch of guys from death row, the last "survivor" is set free, everyone else gets fried. We'll be years ahead of the curb, and by the time that sort of thing becomes popular; we'll already be an established name.

[ARothers]

Originally posted by an0n
Ahaha. The good people (Read: Cock-smoking morons) of Hartlepool hung a monkey during WW2 because they thought it was a Nazi spy.

There are lots of old rediculous English laws that where never changed.  eg, this one daates back to when England was at war with Scotland.  It is legal to kill a Scottish person in York on a Sunday.  I don't know if they finally got round to getting rid of that law because I learnt that a year ago.  Oh and so I don't get slagged off for rascism, my gran is Scottish.

[an0n]

No, you misunderstand. They didn't do it because it was legal or as some sort of novelty. They thought the monkey had been trained to steal national secrets, so they took it out into the center of town and hung it for treason or some ****.

[Flipside]

LOL Don't worry, so's my wife

As for this Child posting pictures of herself, it's a tough one really, but they've done precisely the wrong thing, they've taken someone who was just a little too eager for attention, and who wanted to feel desired as most teenagers do, and have set her onto the road to becoming either a drop-out a crack-ho or a career criminal, since these are the only professions likely to be available to her with a Child pornorgraphy conviction hanging over her head.

Way to destroy a life!

Edit : I heard of that one too Anon, because it was mimicing the Radio operator or something LOL
Other things that are punishable by Death in the UK :-

1) Defacing the Queen's head on a coin. Despite the wonderful job Time has done to the real thing.
2) Driving pigs across London Bridge. It has been rumoured this led to the development of the Metropolitan Police Helicopter

[aldo_14]

Can you still be executed for impersonating an Egyptian?

[ARothers]

If I didn't know better I'd say she's skint or something like that.  But if some peverted idiot found those pictures...  But 'child pornography' doesn't look good on the job application does it?

Oh, Flipside, might I ask what tarten is your wife entitled to wear?  My father's entitled to Gorden and Robertson.  I'm just curious that's all.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by an0n
No, you misunderstand. They didn't do it because it was legal or as some sort of novelty. They thought the monkey had been trained to steal national secrets, so they took it out into the center of town and hung it for treason or some ****.

'twas during the Napoleonic wars

http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/thehartlepoolmonkey.asp


Oh - BTW - I'm of the McGregor clan, myself.

[StratComm]

Ok, back on the original topic, you guys really should learn to distinguish between being accused of something like this and actually being convicted.  The former technically doesn't do any long-term damage to reputation.  Will this girl, a minor with charges of distributing her own pictures as a form of child pornography, really get convicted by a jury?  Will the state even end up asking for a full conviction?  Probably not.  Technically even her identity is not revealed outside of the courtroom because she is a minor.  This isn't a kid who's gone on a shooting rampage who is being tried as an adult, and she's not likely to get much more then restrictions from using a computer for a while as far as punishment is concerned.  And talking to the parents, sad as it is to say, is not the solution it once was; they may not give a damn.

As to the age of consent, the US has much more arbitrary and stupid age restrictions than this.

[Flipside]

Ferret, she's not actually sure, she had a somewhat unusual upbringing even for a Glasweigan, and both her parents were dead before they could really teach her about her family. Next time we are in Glasgow, I'll see if I can find out anything from her rellies

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Flipside
had a somewhat unusual upbringing even for a Glasweigan

And what, may i ask, is that supposed to mean?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I've heard there's a company in Edinburgh that has a tartan for every surname in Britain, not just the Scots ones.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
I've heard there's a company in Edinburgh that has a tartan for every surname in Britain, not just the Scots ones.

Yeah, they have tartans for football clubs and all that (I have Rangers tartan wallpaper & stuff, fact fans)... but it's all a bit pointless, really.  Like those daft ****ing leather kilts - what's the point of those?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

So you can have a tartan sporran and look like a negative?

[Flipside]

Aldo, her words, not mine

Flipside

[karajorma]

Originally posted by StratComm
Ok, back on the original topic, you guys really should learn to distinguish between being accused of something like this and actually being convicted.  The former technically doesn't do any long-term damage to reputation.  Will this girl, a minor with charges of distributing her own pictures as a form of child pornography, really get convicted by a jury?  Will the state even end up asking for a full conviction?  Probably not.  Technically even her identity is not revealed outside of the courtroom because she is a minor.  This isn't a kid who's gone on a shooting rampage who is being tried as an adult, and she's not likely to get much more then restrictions from using a computer for a while as far as punishment is concerned.  And talking to the parents, sad as it is to say, is not the solution it once was; they may not give a damn.

As to the age of consent, the US has much more arbitrary and stupid age restrictions than this.

I agree with you that they'll have to struggle to find a jury who would be willing to convict someone in a case like this but doesn't that mean it was even more ridiculous to bring the case in the first place?

This just reminds me of Chris Morris locking up his kids in a file Cabinet on Brass Eye to keep them safe from paedophiles.

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
I've heard there's a company in Edinburgh that has a tartan for every surname in Britain, not just the Scots ones.

I doubt that. Maybe every olde english and welsh surname but I think they'd have a problem with mine since it's Iranian

[diamondgeezer]

Well I won't be trusting you with my semtex from now on

[Warlock]

You know one thing thou...I'm surprised nothing's happened to the parents yet. Being of late you hear so much on the news about charging parents for crimes a child/teen commits. Course I wouldn't be surprised to see them suddenly toss age limits on Web-Cams after a few more years. (Course chances are her father's already tossed her's out the door )

Also,...IIRC even IF she's convicted,..being below the age of 18 I think her record's sealed once she turns 18 and she's concidered having never had a record. (Although I'm not sure if that covers all parts of a Jouvy's Criminal Record or only lesser offenses,...or if they even still do this for that matter. )