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Bald pervert groped woman in MacDonalds

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JoanThursday1972 · 06/04/2023 09:20

From the local paper. Headline not mine! What relevance is it whether the guilty party is bald or has hair as long as Jesus Christ? I despair of the media.

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Jonei · 06/04/2023 11:17

JoanThursday1972 · 06/04/2023 11:14

No, for those of you who have suggested it, I don't give a rat's a**e about the perpetrator's "feelings". It's not about that. It's about rubbish journalists.

If you had written it, what would your headline have been?

lsanny · 06/04/2023 11:17

Oh, and the comment I responded to has been deleted, so clearly MN agree it was wrong.

Jonei · 06/04/2023 11:18

lsanny · 06/04/2023 11:16

@Jonei

And unclench....

No clenching here.

Funny how calling someone out for nasty remarks is seen as 'clenching' and reason for you to try and have a go...

Have a go?

All very #eastenders.

Blort · 06/04/2023 11:21

Might help other women come forward if they had an unpleasant experience with a bald man in X local town

Jonei · 06/04/2023 11:21

To be fair, that is true Blort.

Aposterhasnoname · 06/04/2023 11:22

So a woman’s been sexually assaulted in public and your main worry is if the perpetrator has been insulted.

lsanny · 06/04/2023 11:23

@Jonei

I don't really understand what you are trying to do here. Someone was nasty to OP and I picked up on it. What is your problem with that? Why have you decided to raise that and suggest I am 'clenched' - it is having a go at me and for no reason. All I did was defend OP when someone was horrible to her.

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JoanThursday1972 · 06/04/2023 11:24

Aposterhasnoname · 06/04/2023 11:22

So a woman’s been sexually assaulted in public and your main worry is if the perpetrator has been insulted.

@Aposterhasnoname How do you work that out? Who has said that anyone is worried about the perpetrator being insulted?

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Jonei · 06/04/2023 11:26

JoanThursday1972 · 06/04/2023 11:24

@Aposterhasnoname How do you work that out? Who has said that anyone is worried about the perpetrator being insulted?

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What are you saying then op?

What do you think would have been a better headline?

Aposterhasnoname · 06/04/2023 11:29

JoanThursday1972 · 06/04/2023 11:24

@Aposterhasnoname How do you work that out? Who has said that anyone is worried about the perpetrator being insulted?

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So what’s the problem with the headline then?

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 06/04/2023 11:34

Is there something equivalent to the Beaufort Scale for perverts?

And if so, is a 'bald pervert' higher up the scale or nearer the bottom? (no pun intended!)

Minimalme · 06/04/2023 11:36

I don't like the headline because it attempts to report a crime as a piece of gossip.

Pervert means 'abnormal' and 'unacceptable' - it doesn't cover criminal. It is the word people use when talking casually.

This man is a criminal. Instead they have presented a life-changing attack on aa woman as some kind of Benny Hill skit.

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JoanThursday1972 · 06/04/2023 11:39

Minimalme · 06/04/2023 11:36

I don't like the headline because it attempts to report a crime as a piece of gossip.

Pervert means 'abnormal' and 'unacceptable' - it doesn't cover criminal. It is the word people use when talking casually.

This man is a criminal. Instead they have presented a life-changing attack on aa woman as some kind of Benny Hill skit.

Spot on. And it's irrelevant if he's bald or not as he's caught, nobody would be looking out for him.

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Jonei · 06/04/2023 11:46

Spot on. And it's irrelevant if he's bald or not as he's caught, nobody would be looking out for him.

What if, as a pp pointed out, it encourages other victims to come forward?

Lordofthebutterfloofs · 07/04/2023 19:52

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 06/04/2023 09:31

Grow up

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Jeeze, it was a joke chill out.

LlynTegid · 07/04/2023 19:55

It may help identify the man if he repeats or tries to repeat this awful behaviour.

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