To ask your opinion on the ear biting incident at the Snooker Championship?

He might have an Italian name and be a British citizen if he was born here to Italian parents.

How ridiculous to suggest reporting him to the Italian press.

Are the sources that have given a name absolutely 100% sure that is his name anyway?!

Are you him?

we dont do anything

Would the Yorkshire Police report him to them?

I've seen his name online. It doesn't appear he's the father. He is an Italian man. How do we report this to the Italian police?

@Firefly1987 that sounds horrible. I totally agree how uncomfortable that would make you feel. I think many of us have dealt with forced kisses off relatives. My son is so open and honest he tells me outright if he doesn't like something. The ear thing is no more as it's absolute cringe he says 😄. This doesn't feel the same to me.

I will go look up the entire longer version. I really don't see what I've seen so far as disgusting. It's weird but alot of us are weird. I'm weird but I'm far from a pervo abuser. Maybe time will tell if more info comes out down the line.

Have you seen the actual unpixellated footage? I doubt you nibble your son's ear in the same way as the man in the video and is your son 12 years old or much younger? The video is sickening, it really is.

I don't come from an overly affectionate family-we're very close but we don't hug/kiss in my immediate family. My great uncle however would kiss everyone on the cheek to greet you-including me as a child. I found it VERY uncomfortable but I couldn't say anything. I also had a friend who had to kiss her dad on the cheek up to teen years every time she went out. He was a great dad but it was embarrassing for her. Just because this kid is putting up with it doesn't mean it's not hugely inappropriate and he's not uncomfortable. But every parent like this will say it's fine and the kid doesn't mind it.

What this man did was not mere affectionate nuzzling. And the boy is an adolescent, at that age it is entirely the right of the child to instigate or accept hugs/kisses etc! In any case, regardless of a child's age, licking their face is entirely inappropriate - it's disgusting. If it IS indeed the case that its this man's idea of a joke then he needs to learn boundaries PDQ.

It's unlikely he wouldn't realise or remember there was no camera there. It's a very small area, with a lot of people often stood crowded round. They appear to be close to the barrier. The filming area is small and the cameras are fairly large Ines and very visible - it would have been in his eyeline the whole time he was there. It's incredibly unlikely he forgot it was there.

It's really nothing like it. The treatment of Christopher Jefferies was disgusting and unjust. He did nothing wrong and nothing that could be open to misinterpretation. I also disagree that he "looks like a creepy murderer" - just a little eccentric.

This is the opposite: dad looks nice and normal but his actions could well be indicative of something else.

I think people saying he knew the camera was there and was pulling silly faces at it before hand as a justification are off.
He may have been stood there so long that he let his mind wander and simply was not thinking about the camera in that moment.
He forgot he was potentially being filmed and behaved in a way that is normal to him and the child reminded him there's a camera there.

When people show you who they are, believe them.

Perfect example of what I was trying to say

absolutely, that is a story to bear in mind, the case of christopher jefferies.

Only news items I can find from the last few hours say they're investigating/reviewing the video.

Chris Jefferies is a good example of when a nation of people can collectively be fucking idiots

"He must be a creepy murderer because he looks like one"

Part of the reason we have a court system is because large groups of riled up people don't deliver justice

It looks weird to lots of people. I think people who use social media and post pictures of their kids on there are really weird. I'm in the absolute minority. I am happy to stand alone in my knowing on that one. The masses act like absolute imbeciles. I recall the scandal when David Beckham kissed his daughter on the lips. Such outrage. Ridiculous

With this, we really won't ever know for certain will we with what info we have so far. Everything about this says not the mainstream, not the norm, that doesn't make it wrong to me. I nibble my son's ear! We make weird squeaky noises.

When I look at the public, the masses and how blimmin insane they have become I will go with my instincts every time. If I'm wrong I will come back on here and apologise.

As for the fallout on this for the kid, I blame the masses again. The idiot who first put it on social media so everyone will give him a like. Idiot

It looked all kinds of wrong to me but have the Police not now come out & said there's no further investigation?

Yes 100%. It's a young boy and it's very uncomfortable to see imo.

I watched the actual video footage yesterday, the man's actions were sexual (nuzzling, licking, a whisper, snd biting the ear), just like you would do with a partner, not a child. The poor boy froze, then pointed out the camera, and he waved like a child to the camera. The man looked genuinely shocked he was on camera then tried to play it off with grinning and shaking his head.

The whole interaction turned my stomach, I actually felt sick.

Those who are saying nothing to see here, it's fine, other parents interact differently than you. I bite my kid's ear etc. It was the whole interaction which was disturbing, it looked sexual not playfighting / playful. I am far from a pearl clutcher, but this was so overtly sexual I don't see how anyone could think otherwise. Thank god the police are involved.

Predators do act in plain sight too.

My son is 7 and often tries to play fight with me, ( I'm recovering from anorexia, I'm not much heavier than him ) so he can often get a good grip of me

Whenever I manage to "win" I always nibble on his ears! DS has suspected adhd and absolutely loves playing rough, he will put his face in my face and we will both sort of snarl at each other

If you didnt know us I bet it would come across as really aggressive when it's not, we are playing

There's a world of difference between nibbling an ear when play wrestling with a giggling 3 year old and whatever the fuck this is.

The bite is inappropriate and disgusting, but the way the man whispers in his ear first - the mannerism in which he does it - is creepy as hell and appears as though the man/father is very controlling and domineering. So putting the 2 things together makes it very disturbing .

Of course there's a chance it was all acting - just making it up for shits and giggles on the telly. But on face value it's worthy of investigation.

1000% sure it's a young boy. He's maybe 14 maximum.

Have seen some posts on Facebook regarding this- and was seriously shocked by some of the comments- from women who don't see anything inherently wrong with ear 'nibbling' their children- although not condoning the way this man did- because it makes their child giggle- it's an errogenous zone- of course you child giggles because it feels nice- gave me the absolute

Is everyone 100% sure that’s a young boy? I can’t watch the full video on iPlayer, but from the clip they kind of look from certain angles like a very slight, youthful looking 20-something year old woman with long, tied back hair.