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You’ve got to be joking
By Steven | March 9, 2011
Okay, when you’re part of a trash-talking video barracking for Crawley Town in its upcoming fixture with Manchester United, it’s offensive to make airplane crashy dance gestures referencing the famous 1958 tragedy that killed eight Man United players. (Watch the plonker on the right).
But it is surely not criminal. Or so I would have thought. But no, said plonker has just been given a (suspended) jail sentence for using threatening, abusive or insulting words with intent to cause harassment alarm or distress. I think Britain has lost the plot.
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