Brickbat: Ye Hypocrites, Are These Your Pranks

Charles Oliver | 12.19.2012 6:00 AM

Scottish police say they have arrested a 17-year-old from Aberdeen, who wasn't named in press accounts, for sending a racist tweet to soccer player Jason Brown. The youth allegedly sent the message after Brown's Welsh team beat Scotland in a World Cup qualifier.

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Bee Tagger 13 years ago

A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.

Is that the racist tweet?
RightNut 13 years ago

Its nice they let green lantern play soccer with them.
1. Whiterun Guard 13 years ago
  
  John Stewart is the worst lantern. Ugh.
  1. Brian D 13 years ago
    
    Jon Stewart would be even worse.
    1. Whiterun Guard 13 years ago
      
      Even Ganthet wouldn't be dumb enough to let him in the Corps.
  2. generic Brand 13 years ago
    
    Disagree. Alan Scott is the worst. Powerless against hard wood??? How was it not obvious he was a homosexual all these years?? (NTTAWWT!)
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

Well, Britain is a country where a teenager was arrested, charged and convicted (overturned on appeal) for causing alarm and distress by saying "woof" to two labradors, so no surprises really
1. Whiterun Guard 13 years ago
  
  I thought HRM The Queen, Protector of the Realm and Ruler of the Andals and the First Men, owned all the Tweets in England?
Pink Cosmotarian 13 years ago

"Raaaaacist!"
Rich 13 years ago

"#welsh r worse bloody buggers evah"
generic Brand 13 years ago

A teenager has been arrested over a racist comment allegedly made online to Wales goalkeeper Jason Brown after a World Cup qualifier against Scotland.

Why is it so difficult for reporters to use the word "allegedly" in stories about a crime that occurred. Was the racist comment allegedly made online, in the Twitterverse, or was it somehow conjured up as skywriting over the soccerfield the goalie was playing on?

ALLEGEDLY SHOULD DESCRIBE "RACIST" YOU ALLEGED JOURNALIST!!!!
waaminn 13 years ago

Well now that jsut makes a ll kinds of sense lol

http://www.PrivacyUSA.tk
Meerkatx 13 years ago

Nothing new here to see. In the U.K. they take racist language serious. People go to jail, people lose their jobs, heck athletes receive suspensions for what is found to be racist language. Suarz of Liverpool 8 games for example.

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