Pinching bottom caution

[Bar Wench]

I agree Wenchy, It just shouldn't be done.

Next it'll be 'tit cricket' such as some of our brokers sometimes play 

Exactly! Been there done that. Not funny!  Mind you the guy that put his hand up my skirt to cop a feel didn't think the pint of beer I poured over him was funny either. 

[Snoopy]

If some drunken crack pot pinched my arse in the street I can assure you that ignoring him would be the last thought on my mind. 

I am not condoning his behaviour ~ merely stating what I saw and my opinion of that event.

BTW Ever been to Italy? Happens all the time there and the ladies take it as an insult if they do not get pinched.
Failure to get a light pinch on the bum in Rome means you are considered neither attractive nor young enough to be worth the effort.

[Darwins Selection]

I agree Wenchy, It just shouldn't be done.

Next it'll be 'tit cricket' such as some of our brokers sometimes play 

Exactly! Been there done that. Not funny!  Mind you the guy that put his hand up my skirt to cop a feel didn't think the pint of beer I poured over him was funny either. 

So that is what goes on in your urban jungle is it?

I remain glad to remain where I am.

[Bar Wench]

If some drunken crack pot pinched my arse in the street I can assure you that ignoring him would be the last thought on my mind. 

I am not condoning his behaviour ~ merely stating what I saw and my opinion of that event.

BTW Ever been to Italy? Happens all the time there and the ladies take it as an insult if they do not get pinched.
Failure to get a light pinch on the bum in Rome means you are considered neither attractive nor young enough to be worth the effort.

Yes dear, but that is Italy. It is very different to having the local chav population running down the street after you like you are a dog on heat with their podgy fingers ready to bruise you.

In Italy it is done as a gesture of appreciation, for some reason in the UK it seems to be a means of degredation. It's the difference between telling a woman she looks beautiful and that she has a great pair of tits. It's all in the subtlety.

DS, that was in Spain when I was working as a real life barmaid.

[Snoopy]

If some drunken crack pot pinched my arse in the street I can assure you that ignoring him would be the last thought on my mind. 

I am not condoning his behaviour ~ merely stating what I saw and my opinion of that event.

BTW Ever been to Italy? Happens all the time there and the ladies take it as an insult if they do not get pinched.
Failure to get a light pinch on the bum in Rome means you are considered neither attractive nor young enough to be worth the effort.

Yes dear, but that is Italy. It is very different to having the local chav population running down the street after you like you are a dog on heat with their podgy fingers ready to bruise you.

In Italy it is done as a gesture of appreciation, for some reason in the UK it seems to be a means of degredation. It's the difference between telling a woman she looks beautiful and that she has a great pair of tits. It's all in the subtlety.

DS, that was in Spain when I was working as a real life barmaid.

I couldn't agree more but to this young lady the question was more "Am I indignant or should I keep talking to camera 'cos if I react the piece will be cut and I want my turn on screen" As it is she calculated correctly and that clip will ensure her immortality on all "Blooper" and "Aunties Bloomers" type shows world wide.

[Bar Wench]

Oh agreed. However, she had to make a fuss afterwards really otherwise a precedent is set for it being acceptable behaviour and it absolutely isn't.

[Barman]

Now, I am going to voice what will no doubt be an unpopular oppinion. Whilst I am for appreciation of a pert botton you really can't go around grabbing fistfuls of peoples flesh just because you feel like it. In a club, bar or pub a pinch of the bottom IMHO is fine. However, I really don't want to be in fear of bruising in that area just walking down the street in broad daylight. Was the reaction over zealous? Of course it was, but really come on chaps. One can't send the message that it's fine to grope women whenever you so feel like it.

I agree with you ? it was wrong.

The point is, should the police be pursuing this guy or one of the thousands of other complaints and unsolved crimes on their books?

[Bar Wench]

Difficult one. Of course I want to say that they should be pursuing real crimminals. But honestly what choice did she have? She had to report it, perhaps things like this should have an unofficial don't bother stamp on them. Although then where is the incentive for bottom pinchers everywhere to control themselves? Difficult one.

[Uncle Mort]

Now, I am going to voice what will no doubt be an unpopular oppinion. Whilst I am for appreciation of a pert botton you really can't go around grabbing fistfuls of peoples flesh just because you feel like it. In a club, bar or pub a pinch of the bottom IMHO is fine. However, I really don't want to be in fear of bruising in that area just walking down the street in broad daylight. Was the reaction over zealous? Of course it was, but really come on chaps. One can't send the message that it's fine to grope women whenever you so feel like it.

I agree with you ? it was wrong.

The point is, should the police be pursuing this guy or one of the thousands of other complaints and unsolved crimes on their books?

In this case at least they had very good evidence.

[Snoopy]

Now, I am going to voice what will no doubt be an unpopular oppinion. Whilst I am for appreciation of a pert botton you really can't go around grabbing fistfuls of peoples flesh just because you feel like it. In a club, bar or pub a pinch of the bottom IMHO is fine. However, I really don't want to be in fear of bruising in that area just walking down the street in broad daylight. Was the reaction over zealous? Of course it was, but really come on chaps. One can't send the message that it's fine to grope women whenever you so feel like it.

I agree with you ? it was wrong.

The point is, should the police be pursuing this guy or one of the thousands of other complaints and unsolved crimes on their books?

"Police looking for" actually means they have sent a video still to all coppers in and around the area via their intrenet system. Few of these coppers ever leave their screens so are unlikely to see the guy let alone recognise him. It is a PR exercise by the rozzers. If he is caught it will be because someone who knows him will grass him up.

[Barman]

Now, I am going to voice what will no doubt be an unpopular oppinion. Whilst I am for appreciation of a pert botton you really can't go around grabbing fistfuls of peoples flesh just because you feel like it. In a club, bar or pub a pinch of the bottom IMHO is fine. However, I really don't want to be in fear of bruising in that area just walking down the street in broad daylight. Was the reaction over zealous? Of course it was, but really come on chaps. One can't send the message that it's fine to grope women whenever you so feel like it.

I agree with you ? it was wrong.

The point is, should the police be pursuing this guy or one of the thousands of other complaints and unsolved crimes on their books?

In this case at least they had very good evidence.

So they should ignore all other crimes with inferior evidence to pursue this one???? 

[Bar Wench]

But then where do you draw the line? Surely assault is assault.

[Barman]

But then where do you draw the line? Surely assault is assault.

I?d draw the line at an ?offence? where no complaint had been made unless the police were sitting around on their arses with nothing to do. If however, they had a backlog of unsolved crimes, half the county flooded plus a daily catalogue of stolen cars, crimes against the person and burglaries, etc. I?d expect them to get off their arses and sort those problems out first.

This just seems like an opportunity to charge somebody eighty quid rather than actually doing something productive. At the end of the day they didn?t even charge the guy so they wasted police time and resources while, IMHO they probably had better things to do?

[Misunderstood]

But then where do you draw the line? Surely assault is assault.

Gotta wade in with BM on this one.  Sure assault is assault but there are measures of it.  It's worth noticing that the police are concentrating on insignificant petty offences where they can cop a fixed penalty and an official result whilst virtually ignoring serious stuff where they have to go to the bother of discovering who did it and then proving it.

Crimes solved figures soar where the offence is too petty for people to bother defending, but the stats look worse when they begin to do some - uh - policing.

Fair do's it's not all the fault of the police, It must be pretty demoralising to go to the trouble of finding a criminal and then have the CPS decide they can't be bothered to prosecute them and then the courts dishing out peppercorn penalties which are immediately commuted to probation and fines that they immediately go out to commit some more crimes to pay.

All in all, it can be summed up with a criminal system that pursues caught-in-the-act-bang-to-rights type offenders that can be dealt with by a fixed penalty fine.   What the actual offence was, is not really the point, that is secondary to the successful conviction and income figures.

Jaundiced?   Who - me?

The most prevalent convicted and penalised crime in our country is:  Speeding.

That is only because they have a law that requires you to grass up whoever was driving even if it was yourself.

No wonder everybody in the world wants to come here.