Peterborough bloke warned over 'offensive' t-shirt

A Peterborough forklift driver who threatened to undermine law and order in the former Roman city by wearing a t-shirt declaring "Don't piss me off! I am running out of places to hide the bodies" has been warned he'll cop an 80 quid fine if caught again wearing the offending apparel. The suitably-monikered David Pratt was …

[Haku]

Inciting violence

If you wear this tshirt and it doesn't incite violence then you're obviously not at an airport:

http://www.freewebs.com/ttshirt/

[Elly Pratt]

Response from Mr D. Pratt's missus!

Thank you to all of you for your responses. Was quite surprised at the amount of people posting on here who feel the same as we do.

This t-shirt when purchased in California was not bought with the idea to shock, be obscene or to incite violence. It was bought to get a smile reaction from the person reading it. I am sorry that there are certain folks in Peterborough who need to urgently book in for a "sense of humour health check!"

We are folks who mind our own business, we keep our noses clean so you can imagine our reaction to be faced with someone telling us we were breaking the "Public Order Act"......... The offending word in question P*SS is a slang word, so does this mean they are going to ban every t-shirt with slang imprinted upon it? The FCUK t-shirts, to a dyslexic this reads as a swear word, even to small kids it does as only the first and last letter has to be in the right place to form the word, the brain does the rest!

This issue the council has slapped in our faces is taking the extreme too far, will folks have to cover up tattoo's which contain swear/slang words in the future? Before you ask, neither my husband or myself have tattoos. But do you see where this is heading? Pretty soon Peterborough council will have us all dressed in the same clothes carrying around a little red book which resembles communist China. Now as much as I adore Chinese food...............I don't wanna live in a communist state!

I am pretty sure my husband will respond to all your comments when he gets in from work.........I will leave him to say the rest.

Thanks again for all your support.

[Roger Moore]

Update the wording

Clearly they aren't getting the message - perhaps he should update the wording:

"Don't piss me off again, I have now run out of space to hide the bodies"

(In case any traffic wardens from Peterborough are reading this: I am kidding!)

[Owen]

Re. antisocial behaviour in the Peterborough area . . .

I guess the street warden was just relaying the orders of the council (his masters) to the masses. Good thing we don't allow religious hatred any more, well not since the time of King James 1 at least:

From the King James bible, Isiah 36:12:

"Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? Hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?"

http://www.godrules.net/library/kjv/kjvisa36.htm

And as for the good folks of Hartlepool offending people: if they don't look British enough . . .

http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/thehartlepoolmonkey.asp

P.S. I did emigrate from the UK to get away from the nanny state. Australia unfortunately has more stupid little rules than Britain :-(

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey Alan

" ... two of the most fattest 20 year olds ..."

Now that's really offensive ... to anyone who can actually construct a sentence in English.

[Anonymous Coward]

comes from the sopranos

Don't piss me off, Im running out of places to hide the bodies

is from the sopranos it's a US saying so to speak the person

that spoke it might have meant it strange I would have been incited

to kick the shit out of anyone bothering me about it, that the

kind of violence they are talking about. You want violence here

it is we have another saying don't start shit there won't be any.

BTW that T-shirt lies still plenty of places to stow bodies around

[Spike Ravenscroft]

Idiots.

This is just stupid.

I'd love to see this happen to me while wearing one of my 400+ collection of little black t-shirts, all of which have something on the front that i'm sure someone could find offensive (I have a plain one but i never wear it. What's the point??).

Recently the Brighton Police told a shop owner to remove a baby t-shirt from his window display because it sported the slogan 'Winner of sperm and egg race'.

This is beyond stupid, especially for anyone who has ever been in Brighton city center on a Saturday lunchtime. If that offends you, you'd best keep your eyes shut.

People just generally need to get over themselves these days.

Its only encouraging idiotic civil servants and politicians.

On a final note, i'd just like to say that anyone who actively wants to be a politician should immediately be prohibited from ever holding office. They must be quite mad to begin with.

[Anonymous Coward]

Crazy or what

I have just emailed Peterborugh council as for sure this is PC gone mad and I wnat one of those t-shirts.

[JayB]

That's it....

...next time I am in the US, I'm buying the T Shirt I saw in San Francisco worn by a very cute lady..

Front "Jesus Loves me..."

Back "But he f*cking hates you!"

Public Odrer Act AND Incitement to Religious Hatred!!!! Sadly there's been quite a few cases of abuses of the Public Order Act in recent years. Top 3 being...

1) Guys selling "Bollocks to Blair" T Shirts at Norfolk Flower Show (or it's ilk) - fined and ordered to remove t-shirts from display.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/5135150.stm

2) Young lad done for saying "f*ck all" in earshot of the SS, I mean Police. Fined.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4734350.stm

3) Bloke done for referring to a knife detector as "f*cking crap" to his g/f, again, in earshot of the SS. Fined but at last count, fighting it.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/accursed_metal_detector/

It's interesting that the SS and employed wannabes don't actually need any evidence that offense has been caused....

[Loopy Loo]

Just crazy

Just a question but is this infringing on your human right for self expression?

I loved your shirt

Does this mean that I have to stop wearing my t-shirt .......

If we wern't all crazy we would all be insane

[Debbie]

Grow up already!!

Some people really need to grow up! I personally know David n Elly and know them to be very good people.

The shirt in question isnt offensive its HUMOR!!!! Ive read alot of comments on several sites where this has become a topic, people say they dont want their 4yr olds to read this, well I wonder how many 4 yr olds can read it or do their parents tell them that that P word is *Piss*. Or do they read the shirt to them to say isnt that just so bad of him!. This is truely unbelieveable and so ridiculous its unreal. People are so quick to say wear it at home, it offends me, I dont want my kids reading this, etc..... Well for one if its on a woman then dosent it appear that your NOT just reading her shirt your lookin at her boobs? How rude is that to begin with, should the lady in question walk up and lift your chin to point out where her eyes are or her beautiful smile? or you just gonna say well I was drawn to read it, hmmmmmm. I havent seen the FCUK shirts but wouldnt mind owning one lol.

So many fingers pointed negatively yet if you read what they wrote you will most likely see some sort of ignorance and insults against someone else for something else, such as the one bout the 2 20yr old people of size.

Seems alot just want something to complain bout and put others down to make themselves feel so much bigger.

For pete's sake its a T-SHIRT its not an offer to fight, its not a slam, its not offensive, and he didnt put in on with thoughts of *well today imma wear this shirt to see how many I can *piss* off*. ITS HUMOR TRY SOME LAUGHING OR SMILING JUST MIGHT LIGHTEN YOU UP A BIT.

Like ive said before Ebay an other funny t-shirt or logo t-shirt sites are gonna be getting alot of business now just to find these kind of shirts.

[HH]

Peterborough's crime free!!

Peterborough is evidently so crime free that the only 'crime' could be found was one of fashion!

Or is it that the crime is so out of hand in Peterborough that the police/community support only dare approach people offensive t-shirts?

[Edward Pearson]

In Peterborough...

In Peterborough, T-Shirt wears you!

[AllGonePeteTong]

What Happened to Free Speech?

Oh, that's right, after World War II the Nazi party infiltrated the government and emerged 50 years later as the labor party.

I'd have punched the guy in the face. That would give him a real reason to arrest me - bloody Gestapo wannabe.