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Speech Crime

Farmer arrested for speech thought crime in UK.

…A former BBC presenter has won damages after being wrongly
arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred for “light-hearted”
remarks at a country fair.
Robin Page, who hosted TV’s One Man And His Dog, fought a
five-year campaign to clear his name after being locked up in a
cell for his jokey introduction to a pro-hunting speech.
He told a meeting in Framptonupon-Severn, Gloucestershire, in
2002: “If you are a black, vegetarian, Muslim, asylum-seeking,
onelegged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you.”
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Robin Page: Was quizzed by police five months after his
pro-hunting speech

Most of the audience were amused. But the police later received
a letter of complaint.
Another person also wrote to say he disagreed with Mr Page’s
remarks.
Two officers from Gloucestershire Police travelled to
Cambridgeshire to arrest Mr Page at his cattle farm.
He was held in a cell at a police station for 40 minutes before
agreeing to be interviewed without a lawyer present.
Mr Page, 64, said…

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The 5 Most Horrifying Crimes Committed by Senior Citizens

I do not like old people. My uneasiness is not born from hatred but from fear. I don’t trust their giant ears and ankles, the way their faces melt into their droopy necks, the way their hands don’t cast shadows like see-through fish.

…2.
Petit Larceny and Tampering with Jell-O

While technically not a felony, this crime is so irrational and bizarre that it makes me just as anxious about the conniving and unpredictable nature of the elderly as anything else on this list. At some point last spring, an old couple in Long Island decided they were sick of paying for groceries, and in particular, Jell-O. Together they devised and launched an elaborate scheme to buy packages of pudding mix, remove the powder and replace it with sand. Then they returned the boxes to the stores and reaped the astronomical profits of around $1.40 a box. Most staggering of all, their intention was never to sell the pudding, they just wanted a lot of it for free. Everything worked smoothly until the stores restocked the old packages and costumers complained their Jell-O looked a lot like sandwich bags filled with sand….

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The 5 Most Horrifying Crimes Committed by Senior Citizens

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