Chester woman to stand trial accused of displaying threatening bumper sticker

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1. I think this is only aggressive if you are one. Also- serious humour bypass of whoever complained.

2. Threatening? What was the threat exactly?

3. The prosecutor needs to read the bumper sticker.

4. Someone at the CPS actively decided to pursue this charge for the publics interest. Ridiculous.

5. She’ll win if it’s that alone. Using an expletive word or statement is not illegal verbally or written.

6. Broken Britain

7. Meanwhile, actual real crimes are being committed at growing rates…

8. She’s standing trial for displaying the one true commandment for all of mankind, sounds like persecution to me.

9. I don’t believe that she’s been charged with only having an offensive bumper sticker. Two of the examples in the article of people charged with having offensive bumper stickers were also charged with speeding, which is why
   They were pulled over in the first place.

   It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if she was caught doing something else and the bumper sticker has been bundled in with the rest of the charges.

10. I think those at the CPS, need to read the sticker and take heed of it.

11. Sounds like we need some reform at the CPS.

12. Yeah let’s potentially ruin someone’s life over a stupid sticker. Meanwhile rapists and thieves go free. Punch someone in the face? Just claim it was an accident, Police won’t do shit.

13. That’s rotten. Here in Australia CUinNT was a tourist board campaign for visiting the Northern Territory. Hopefully the sense of humour remains in these trying times.

14. And they wonder why people don’t have any faith in the police.

15. Surely it would onle be a threatening if you were a cunt and it said “Or else” at the end.

16. There must be some kind of prosecution metrics they have to meet, so they take up these frivolous cases that are easy to prove rather than real crimes

17. “Don’t be a cunt ”

    Doesnt sound like a grave threat

18. These laws are all subjective and based on feelings. They have no place in society.

19. We used to be a proper country.

20. Anglo-Saxon is considered threatening? Huh.

21. Chester magistrates

    ok calm down everyone, it’s about on par with not paying council tax or speeding tickets.

22. While I don’t really care, I can see that it might cause offence. So from a legal point of view I get it. But this does feel like an ego clash. A police officer almost certainly asked her to remove it and she refused. They decided to prosecute her.

    I’m more on her side than the officers since it feels like a waste of my taxes, but neither do I particularly want to live somewhere where I have to see mildly offensive things plastered on every surface.

23. Im actually glad they are pursuing this. This is a person who has had multiple infractions on the same issue and continues to defy the police on the issue.

    I don’t think it’s ok to display the word CUNT in public. You shouldn’t either. This country is is serious moral decline. Once we had standards and now everyone is just unapologetically rash, rude and uncouth.

24. Who is it threatening?

25. If these are the same venables who run the butchers I’d contribute to the legal fund. Damn good butchers

26. Only people threatened by that are cunts.

27. I may be misremembering this, but I seem to remember a case a few decades ago where someone had the tattoo FUCK OFF on their forehead, and they were charged with something similar. So they changed the tattoo to DON’T FUCK OFF and the charges were dropped.

    Is this a completely false memory?

    Anyway, surely DON’T BE A CUNT is a suggestion for well-living and should be fine? Isn’t it like NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS album by the Sex Pistols? The judge at the time said it was just good old English banter or something.

28. How is that ‘threatening’? It seems like a perfectly reasonable exhortation to me. I hope the case is thrown out, and instead, the judge commends her public spiritedness.

29. WTAF? The other day I read about someone being prosecuted for a cyberfarting offence and now this bumper sticker offence.

30. “threatening”?

    WTF? Obscene? Yes.

    But threatening? Dont be idiotic.

31. What a waste of time and money.

32. Oh shit. Better not wear a Cradle of Filth – JESUS IS A CUNT shirt to court

33. isnt that a reference to The Boys? im sure the british guy is always giving out this great bit of advice.

34. As an Australian expat living in the UK, I find this comical…yet tragic for the resources spent given [there are other things to be concerned about](https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/cheshire-constabulary/chester-city/?tab=CrimeMap)

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