Chiamare i “scumbags” dei taccheggiatori è offensivo, avverte la polizia
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/08/police-warn-wrexham-shopkeeper-thieves-scumbags/
di Low_Map4314
Chiamare i “scumbags” dei taccheggiatori è offensivo, avverte la polizia
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/08/police-warn-wrexham-shopkeeper-thieves-scumbags/
di Low_Map4314
44 commenti
The police have to try and keep the community on their side.
If the bloke had used swear words the police would have a point.
But the police have to take a step back here and start thinking ‘Who are we here to help’.
The police are bloody useless. They’ll arrest people for being mean on the internet and tell storeowners they need to respect the people stealing from them, but are nowhere to be found when crime has been committed. There’s no reforming this system, it must be completely replaced.
The pathetic state of Policing paid for by the people is offensive.
They should investigate the person who complained, if they’re offended by the signs they must be a scumbag shoplifter themselves.
It’s now very common to hear people say, ‘I’m rather offended by that.’ As if that gives them certain rights. It’s actually nothing more… than a whine. ‘I find that offensive.’ It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. ‘I am offended by that.’ Well, so fucking what.”
[I saw hate in a graveyard — Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]
Shoplifters are scumbags. When shops close due to excessive theft then who’ll be blamed? If words are more offensive than an actual crime then the police are utterly redundant.
Just give me my reduction in council tax if police are offended by the word scumbag to denote a criminal.
“I’m terribly sorry officer, but that man there had disrespected my profession, just because we are in direct competition. I should not be called ‘scumbag’, just because I have chosen freetail therapy. Please tell that shopkeeper to mind his languages as his words have caused great mental torment and made me feel prejudiced because I am in the minority of general society”
Either the story is missing a number of steps and facts which happened, distorted the true story, or this is plain ridiculous.
Are we supposed to care that scumbags are offended?
It’s not nice.
It’s not criminal.
Is this an action by “the police” or one officer acting like a bit of a dick?
What has happened to this country I remember when cops did their job and arrested criminals.
In the UK the prisons are bursting at the Seams but people think the police don’t arrest people.
Once again we mustn’t have many real problems in this country if this is what we prefer to yap about
Good. I want to offend them. Shoplifters are not a protected class
Bit of an overreaction from everyone here.
Someone called police about the sign and the response was for police to ask him to remove it. That’s it.
I bet these scumbag shoplifters are laughing their scumbag heads off at how the Police just allow them to carry on being scumbags.
I think we have something already prepared for this.
Three words from some guys over in the States, that weren’t fans of the police.
More concerned with policing mean words than stopping crime that hurts more than feelings.
Wonder what the legality of telling the police to “f off” is in that situation.
I translated this as
> Thought occurs in the mind of a police officer that is not part of the law. Rather than keep it in his head, he says it out loud.
National headlines about it happen.
Can we go back to a time before constant rage bait articles ffs.
Top work North Wales Police, what law has been broken here?
“But officers from North Wales Police attended his retro shop in Wrexham and told him to take down the sign as it could cause offence.”
Who exactly takes offence at the sign?
I believe i came across a clip a while ago of irish cops going to an ex cops house for posting some OFFENSIVE COMMENTS on twitter or something
Cant cops be decent anywhere, in the US they kill people, in the UK they are WOKE
lol. And people always claim that UK and similar countries “have free speech” when they don’t.
Grow the fluff up if your out there pinching anything other than food for yourself or your family then yes. You well and truly are the scum.
Shop lifting increases prices on consumers. Stupid cages around alchol and cheese ffs. Honestly laughable but at the same time very saddening to think you’d have to go to that extreme.
‘I hope you aren’t exercising free speech lad!
We’ll get the rainbow cruiser on you!’
Alright, shoplifters are sub-human, is that better?
Not quite the whole story. But why let the truth get in the way of ragebait
” Davies was asked by police if he would consider re-wording his sign but told them that wasn’t on the cards”
lol. Lmfao, even.
Good to see the police doing the really important work of cracking down on the terrible crime of hurty words.
Easy win for the cops – it counts as a crime solved. Community engagement, all that nonsense. The Chief Constable is probably writing up a power point presentation about it, as we speak.
I guess ‘policing by consent’ now means that the only people who get policed are those that actively allow themselves to be policed. The shoplifter will just tell the cops ‘lol no’ and the cops backdown.
Hehe you’ll get in more trouble for your words than your actions in Great Britain. Luckily I fully comply and agree with everything our overloads say
OK. What they are doing is terrible for society and their actions make shopping much less pleasant for the rest of us. I do not think the rest of us are exactly willing to placate their delicate sensibilities.
The police have time to visit people in numbers to point out offensive signs?
‘Causing offense’ is inherently subjective and should not be the basis for laws.
Oh, well they can come and arrest me.
Shoplifters are scumbags. Parasites. Filth. Dirt.
We had an incident around my area today. Police called and arrived within minutes. Bet thats not reported in the news because it doesnt suit a narrative
The shop owner said
“I just wonder if that person was a shoplifter who was offended as it was detrimental to their work.”
He added: “It is a freedom of speech thing. You should be able to speak freely in this country unless you are being derogatory.”
Unless you are being derogatory? 🫠
So he doesn’t support free speech.
derogatory meaning: to express a low opinion of someone or something
Hi American here, what the fuck is wrong with you’re guys’s police? Does the internet exaggerate or are they really this draconian and useless?
The Po-lice , don’t get to tell me what to call thieves, especially on the internet. I’ll hold my own counsel on the subject thank you.
The police don’t have time to actually address shoplifting, but they have time to act on a complaint that a shoplifter (because who else is going to complain? a shoplifter’s mum, maybe) makes against a shop they steal from!
I mean, unless this story is a complete fabrication, that’s just completely ridiculous.
And also, that sign is not contravening any law, is it? Some member of the public (likely a scumbag shoplifter) got offended? So fucking what. Offending someone is not a police matter. Especially if they deserve it.
Couple of police officers opinions isn’t necessarily nationwide news or opinion. A sign calling shoplifters scumbags isn’t causing any actual offences because no sane person would reasonably be offended of criminals being called scumbags.
Let’s not shit our collective pants about the “state of policing” yet
Not allowed to intervene when you witness em nicking stuff from yer local supermarket and now you can’t offend them. Might as well roll out the red carpet for when they arrive.
Will somebody PLEASE think of the criminals’ feelings ????
If I can’t call them scumbags, how about human trash, waste of breath, shitheads ?
I wouldn’t be surprised that more people turn to crime, seeing how they are protected so viscerously by the police, while the victims are left begging them to protect them.
Causing offence CANNOT be a crime. Offense is a construct, it is different for everyone, and it cannot be measured, or enforced. Utter madness.
Good. Those scumbags offend us all with their existence.
I never liked Sting why’s he getting involved with petty crime?