ah come on...
Not the first time a bunch of torch-wielding fuckwits have descended on the wrong punter.. Happens on facebook as well.
Depressing.
A furious online hate mob has attacked Steps singer H after trying to launch a hate campaign against a different celebrity musician who pled guilty to a string of vile child sex offences. Lostprophet singer Ian Watkins was yesterday convicted of a number of hideous crimes, including the attempted rape of a baby. After the …
Indeed, although I think it rather pre-dates all the modern social media. It's just faster and more wide-reaching in its ineptitude these days.
Brings to mind a story I heard a while back about a hospital doctor who had her house torched 'cos some such "person" could tell the difference between a paedophile and a paediatrician...
"Brings to mind a story I heard a while back about a hospital doctor who had her house torched 'cos some such "person" could tell the difference between a paedophile and a paediatrician..."
That is an exaggerated, but still serious, story - she actually had the word 'paedo' graffitied on her wall.
@ AC_101
I sit corrected (a little research turns up the link below, plus a few others on the story). Some Chinese whispering involved into my ears or possibly my recall, but the retribution against the innocent still occurred, albeit thankfully to a less serious extent than my first recollection.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4719364.stm
Whilst the story of Yvette Cloette has been blown out of all proportion, there was, much more recently, the case of Bijan Ebrahimi a mentally disabled man who was falsely accused of being a paedophile after taking pictures of local youths who had been destroying his flowers who was kicked unconscious and then burned to death!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/bijan-ebrahimi-burned-to-death-pedophilia_n_4209497.html
"Do the people who post this stuff not realise that"
No. Most of them are the sort of people who have to wear googles when using cultery in case they poke themselves in the eye. Utter fuckwits, the lot of them. Twitter should require an IQ test to be completed before an account can be opened and then every week or so.
> Do the people who post this stuff not realise that the real offender won't be allowed to use or see Twitter or a long, long time
And what about the ones that post their condolences addressing the deceased?
"Wilkinson, you were blah and blah, and such a blah."
Well, why didn't you fucking tell him while he was still alive? :-b
Do people not realise? No, because people are morons. And once they get together in a mob (even virtually) they make morons look thoughtful.
Speaking of which;
"I asked H if he thought Steps might be able to help solve the Eurozone crisis, to which he replied: "Yes, I think so.""
Ask a stupid question....
"Perhaps the chief inspector should have specified just which celebrity Ian Watkins he meant."
This is probably the dumbest comment ever in a Register article. The clue was in the previous paragraph. "The lead investigator in the case of the Lostprophets Ian Watkins". Who else would he be talking about?
but wasn't there recently some police activity against people who were writing/venting not nice words against others on such, ahem, things like Twitter? So if the police could do that then why not again for these poor individuals who through no reason have been cstigated throughout cyberdom. Or perhaps would Twitter suspend/cancel the accounts of such idiots?
And when is it that pigs will fly.....
I for one fully intend to voluntarily extinguish myself, either when i pay off all my debt, or if Scotland votes YES to independence.
I urge any thinking Scotsperson to consider the same, if next year brings more of the mindless parochialism we already endure - witchhunts will be the least of it, think more along the lines of "ethnic cleansing"
Which makes me ponder the merits of putting all Twattface users to the sword?