A 17 year-old boy - not a man yet, don't believe the media - was arrested for abusive tweets directed to Tom Daley. The main focus is a tweet suggesting that his dad (Rob Daley, who passed away due to a brain tumour) would have been let down by Tom's performance at the Olympics.
A nasty thing to say, admittedly, but shit happens. 'Ordinary' civillians have to put up with verbal abuse over Twitter, Facebook and out in the streets on a regular basis, life does it's deed and carries on. I fail to understand why Olympic athletes are suddenly immune to such attacks. I'm sorry if you're a Union Jack-wielding ultra-prick, but 'doing the country proud' is not a valid reason in my book simply because diving into a swimming pool a couple of times is not on a par with risking your life fighting against the Taliban on a daily basis. Athletes are fair game just like the rest of us, they don't warrant any special treatment.
Frankie Boyle - a comedian of whom I am a big fan - has been 'in trouble' for merely tweeting that Rebecca Adlington possesses the face of a dolphin. Front page news for a light joke just because the target happened to be an Olympic swimmer? That's horse shit if you ask me, but at least it gives him some decent publicity, albeit publicity he probably - if I were to hazard a guess - couldn't give two fucks about.
News reports I can deal with, but arresting people for posting distasteful comments on Twitter should be the cue for God to terminate our very existence as a species. Prisons are crowded enough as it is. Can you imagine the conversation between cell-mates?
Convict #1 - 'What you in for?'
Convict #2 - 'The rape-murder of my own family. You?'
Convict #1 - 'Calling Jessica Ennis a cunt on Twitter.'
Convict #2 - 'You sick motherfucker!'
It's rediculous when you think about it like that.
P.s, this will [hopefully] be one of very few 'protest posts'.
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