Calgary police charge man for hurling obscenity at reporter

Crann na Beatha

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http://gawker.com/creator-of-****-her-right-in-the-pussy-admits-it-was-1677160604

I suppose there no point explaining to those tools that it was a hoax to start with?

They're telling a bad joke that they don't even get...

Uriel.

JT26 wrote: »

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/calgary-man-charged-after-yelling-obscenity-at-a-cbc-reporter/article24442762/

For anyone that isn't aware the phrase been alluded to is "**** her right in the pussy" and this incident comes after this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKkAL1AEam8

The reporter Shauna Hunt took umbrage at this line been blurted out repeatedly over the course of her working day and repeatedly occurring during her job,so she tackled these man over it.
The phrase was a prank on youtube the past two years.

The gentleman in the yellow jersey in the video ended up losing his job over his comments.and banned from Toronto FC,the Toronto Maple Leafs from his comments and prosecutors in both Toronto and Calgary have explicitly stated they will prosecute people for using this phrase.

So now there is a debate over free speech here after all this.
I think it is ridiculous that some people feel the need to shout this stupid thing at reporters and it again stinks of disrespect to a fellow human being and women as a whole.I dont think its right for the guy to lose his job and be banned for life from attending MLSE (Maple Leaf Sports Entertainment) facilities.

The guy lost his job, but because of limitations on free speech, but I would say lost his job because he seems like a complete immature yokel. I wouldnt want someone that portrays that level of stupidity working for my company. I'd be thinking does he act like that around female employees in the workplace, or on work nights out etc.

Whether you consider free speech to be absolute, or subject to certain restrictions, the reality is that acting in a particular way had the potential to tarnish an image and I wouldn't want the image of my company to be associated with a gob****e like that

Greenmachine

Wonder what he has been charged with. No doubt what he said was extremely vulgar, and he come across as a proper creep.
Something along the lines "threatening and abuse behaviour" "harassment" "sexual harassment" might be suitable. In some circle, I suspect would want to charge these guys with rape.

Crann na Beatha

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cournioni

Am I the only one that thought this thread was GAA related?

kneemos

Incredibly polite bunch.


Did she say "pee pee"?

GLaDOS

Don't agree with the criminal charge, but if you're going to be an obnoxious asshole to someone trying to do their job on live television you should be prepared for the consequences. Understandable that a company wouldn't want to be associated with him and that the club would want to send a message that they do not condone it.

osarusan

Criminal charges seem too much (especially the 'stunting' charge above - how is that even applicable), but they guy really does come across as a clown.

As mentioned above, nobody wants to be professionally associated with that.

What an obnoxious half-wit. He doesn't deserve a criminal charge, just to be despised generally.

spurious

His weasely mate in the away shirt needs a fright too.

**edit Oh wait, it seems he is the one fired. Good enough for him. Twit.

Stillhouette

Freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to be vulgar to somebody or vulgar on television. That guy in the yellow shirt looks to be an incredibly annoying dickhead. The type of person that would make an entire bar groan if he walked in for a drink. His friend isn't much better. I wouldn't be surprised if his ex employer was looking for any reason to get rid of him.

P. Breathnach

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Don't agree with the criminal charge ...

osarusan wrote: »

Criminal charges seem too much ...

From the story on which you are commenting:

A $400 fine sends a message. It doesn’t leave him with a criminal record.

Hans Bricks

Such pettiness and overreactions. It's a silly internet trend of shouting the same obscenity at live television cameras and well no in particular really. It was never about setting out to "sexually harass" female anchors FFS.

Yellow shirt man is actually a bit of an annoying prat.

I think when a woman is just doing her job and a man comes up and screams 'Fck her right in the p**sy' at her, it's fair to say that there's elements of both the sexual and harassment involved.

Not the main element, thats obviously gross stupidity, but a substantial one nonetheless.

Joe prim

This would be better as a catch phrase.

Baron Kurtz

But would you? Sorry.

Duggy747

Candie wrote: »

I think when a woman is just doing her job and a man comes up and screams 'Fck her right in the p**sy' at her, it's fair to say that there's elements of both the sexual and harassment involved.

Not the main element, thats obviously gross stupidity, but a substantial one nonetheless.

It was a shítty hoax that got traction where people used to just shout at reporters doing live sections and was seen as a vulgar meme, it wasn't something that was aimed primarily at women.

Not surprised someone would lose their job over it, especially considering you're supposed to say it and flee..............not hang around talking to the reporter afterwards where the world and your boss can have a good look at your face.

I don't think this is nearly as vulgar as it's made out to be since it's a well known phrase and not personal.. "Seriously mate, just bend her over and fuk her right now." would be far worse.

P. Breathnach

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I don't think this is nearly as vulgar as it's made out to be ...

In most circumstances I'm not too bothered about vulgarity. But this meme is not vulgar: it's sexist and demeaning, and that is worse than vulgarity.

skinnie

JT26 wrote: »

So now there is a debate over free speech here after all this.

A lot of people misunderstand the concept of free speech obviously.

Edit: I can't believe I missed the fact that people were being charged over this (it's friday, I'm tired). This really is a bit much.

Manach

The irony is that the Canadian consitution has been held as a model of liberal tolerance by progressive jurisprudance experts. While the man is a cad and not a gentleman and should have been socailly blackballed by his peers for such behaviour, by police involving it pushes at the boundries on how rights nowadays are being balanced and conflicted where the right of speach is being countered by the newly discovered right not to be offended. This latter issue has been used by the police to clamp down on public protest - both from right and left wing social activists. Thus the irony of the casus of this being a reporter is so very acute.

P. Breathnach

Manach wrote: »

... the right of speach is being countered by the newly discovered right not to be offended....

How about the right of a woman to do her work (or simply go out in public) without being submitted to demeaning sexist remarks?

The greatest threat to free speech is not the assertion of a right not to be offended; the greatest threat to free speech is claiming that it confers rights to behave badly.

Manach

... and that needs the full power of the state to crack down on with once the precedence established to crack down on whatever ...ism is deemed worthy of the condemnation this year? Rights, last count from a book by E. Posner, are numbering around 200+ and growing: at least providing a ground work for the perpetual outrage machine.

Sand

I'm not sure its an issue of male patrimony vs. feminist freedom fighting. More a issue of ****ty internet meme humour running flat bang into the brick wall of reality. Shouting random nonsense at people will eventually catch up with you. It being an internet meme is not a valid excuse. The people involved seem old enough to know better.

I've no real problems with the guy involved losing his job - most employment contracts include clauses around not making your employers looking like knobs, so if you're caught acting like an unapologetic knob you're going to be in violation of your contract.

JacquesDeLad

I think it would be taken more seriously if male reporters were subjected to the same harassment. Imagine Kris Kamara or Roy Keane had idiots like that suggesting they going to penetrate them while they were they trying to do their job. There would be broken jaws, court cases, prison sentences and a result there'd be a crackdown on the behaviour which caused the trouble. Maybe it will take a female reporter to just lose the plot and go at one of these idiots with a stiletto. Martyr themselves so some action will be taken.

Cold War Kid

Manach wrote: »

by police involving it pushes at the boundries on how rights nowadays are being balanced and conflicted where the right of speach is being countered by the newly discovered right not to be offended.

How on earth is that "newly discovered"? The "We should be able to say whatever we like no matter how damaging it is to those on the receiving end" thing is what's new and in vogue.
I agree the police getting involved is taking things too far, particularly when this is just an internet meme, but people going on about free speech when there is no such thing as free speech in the literal sense (i.e. to be able to say absolutely anything) look clueless.

biko

Pussay!

Skullface McGubbin

Here's some additional background on that "fcuk her right in the pussy" quote, https://archive.is/xlRH8

rubadub

JacquesDeLad wrote: »

I think it would be taken more seriously if male reporters were subjected to the same harassment. Imagine Kris Kamara or Roy Keane had idiots like that suggesting they going to penetrate them while they were they trying to do their job. There would be broken jaws,

I looked a video compilation of this crap just there. Male reporters were being "subjected to this harassment" too, and were laughing it off, just as most of the female reporters were. Women were also the ones doing the "harrassing" and saying the line in front of female reporters.

In all the ones I have seen I never got the slightest impression that it was being directed at the reporter, like they were "suggesting they going to penetrate them while they were they trying to do their job".

If it was turned around and a female gobs.hite stuck her head in and actually did definitely direct it Roy Keane, saying "I'm gonna sit my pussy right on his cock" or "I'm gonna suck his cock dry" or something equivalent, I doubt there would be jaws broken, or court cases and doubt really people being worried about Keane being sexually harrassed.

I think it would be taken far less seriously, just as statutory rape of males by females is taken far less seriously by many.