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Jail time for Revving engine in a "racist" manner

what a bunch of pathetic fucking dolts....

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UK: Jail Time for Revving Engine in a Racist Manner
A motorist in Scotland, UK is fined $238 and sent to jail for two days for the crime of revving his Lotus Esprit in a racist manner.

Scottish motorist Ronnie Hutton, 49, was jailed for two days for the crime of "revving his car in a racist manner" last September. After waiting more than a year to try the case, the Stirling Sheriff court finally convicted Hutton last week of breach of the peace and fined him £150 (US $282).

An off duty officer, Chief Inspector Eoin Jenkins, said Hutton had revved the engine of his Lotus Esprit near two Muslims last year. After Hutton dismissed Jenkins' concern with an expletive, Jenkins immediately dispatched two police officers to Hutton's home where he was taken and thrown in jail for two days without formal charges. Hutton explained that his revving had nothing to do with nearby pedestrians, rather, he was keeping his temperamental and expensive V8 engine from stalling and being damaged.

"To be convicted for revving my car in a busy street is hard to take," Hutton told the Sunday Mail newspaper. "Does this mean anyone driving a noisy car in Scotland is now a criminal?"

Asked in court why the man may have revved his engine, Hana Saad, 23, said through an interpreter, "Maybe because we are Muslim."

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/13/1347.asp

WTF revving your engine is a crime now. How do you rev in a racist manner ?? people are getting way to touchy about racism there is a line where you have to draw. I guess nowadays anything can be called racist.

I got arrested for looking at a black guy

^ I got a black guy arrested for looking at me.

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Originally Posted by Qmx323 (Post 6485539)

I got arrested for looking like a black guy

Fixed.

Not sure how the courts in the UK work,but how the fuck do you prove that "beyond a reasonable amount doubt"?

he shoulda just said he likes men and was trying to show off

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Originally Posted by CRS (Post 6485562)

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Originally Posted by Qmx323 (Post 6485539)

I got arrested for looking at a black guy

Fixed.

rofl :haha:

but that is ridiculous....

random. pure random.

i became a registered sex offender after I inappropriately rang my bicycle bell at a 6 year old

in the uk, it is law that patrons at bars must fill a pint of beer to the brim to like 3/8 of an inch without head or some stupid shit like that

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Originally Posted by drunkrussian (Post 6485745)

i became a registered sex offender after I inappropriately rang my bicycle bell at a 6 year old

HAHA

http://the-grayline.com/wp-content/u...-candy-van.jpg

Even IF they can prove that he was revving because of the two Muslims, it's not exactly easy to prove it was BECAUSE they were Muslim...

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Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul (Post 6486787)

Even IF they can prove that he was revving because of the two Muslims, it's not exactly easy to prove it was BECAUSE they were Muslim...

Department of redundancy department lol