Brickbat: Comedy Police

In Liverpool, England, about 20 police officers descended on the Hot Water Comedy Club to close down a show being held in violation of ban on large gatherings. They were surprised to find the club already closed. Paul Blair, one of the club's owners, says someone saw a Facebook video of a show taped two weeks earlier and, despite it being made clear a number of times in the broadcast that the show was taped, that person assumed it was live and reported the club to police.

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[Real Books]

Next they'll be forbidding videos of large gatherings, putting them on a par with kiddie porn.

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[Verbum Vincet]

A heroic concerned citizen saw something and said something. There is no greater patriotic act! Huzzah!!!

[Brandybuck]

People who "see" something and then report it to the police are the absolute worst people on the planet. Scum of the earth.

[Wizard4169]

What if you see a real crime, such as a theft or murder? As little confidence as I have in the police, I'd probably still report that.

Now, as for creeps who report petty "crimes" just for the sense of power, yeah, they're pretty terrible.

[Adans smith]

What a wanker.

[SQRLSY One]

But was this wanker perhaps a swanker wanker?

Well, it can always get worse!

Recall the gay Canadian airline steward way back when, spread (just then “going viral” literally) AIDS all over the place? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Dugas … Kaposi’s sarcoma spread all over the place… (As a prominent sign of the new mystery disease).

Well anyway, hopefully this swanker wanker will NOT be the starring attraction for a bunch of young fan boys, who might otherwise become the spreaders at the nexus of the next horror, known as SWANKER WANKER YANKER CHANCRE!!!

Greedy capitalists as usual will crank out new drugs to cure it, at VASTLY inflated expenses, backed up by their bankers, so then we’ll have SWANKER WANKER YANKER CHANCRE drug-CRANKER BANKERS!!! Riots in the streets, from the anti-1% folks, I’m a-tellin’ ya!!!

Conservative newscasters will take the side of the bankers… But one of these newscasters will be caught by a mob of angry anti-1% rioters, some of whom will proceed to PUNISH the newscasters… Said punishment-dishers-outers will be known as…
SWANKER WANKER YANKER CHANCRE pro-drug-CRANKER-BANKER-ANCHOR SPANKERS!

There will be those who are squeamish about personal punitive violence, but who still secretly support those with less such squeamishness. When no one is looking or listening, they will privately utter their support of the punitive ones. These more shy and secretive supporters of such things will be known as…

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There will inevitably be those who will want to play gay hanky-panky with those who secretly oppose the bankers and anchors in this case, and make the often-mistaken assumption that those who merely sympathize with gays, must actually BE gay. Such prospective unwanted-gay-pass-makes will be known as “hanker-pankers”. The recipients of such unwanted passes will be temped to SPANK the makers of unwanted passes! They will be known as…

SWANKER WANKER YANKER CHANCRE pro-drug-CRANKER-BANKER-ANCHOR SPANKER THANKER HANKER-PANKER SPANKERS!

[Rat on a train (non donor)]

20 police officers
So there was a gathering of more than 10.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Gatherings of more than 10 people, not cops. Totally different.

[Rat on a train (non donor)]

True. I assume they can also get haircuts.

[darkflame]

Snitches skip the stitches and go straight into the ditches.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The club shared CCTV footage showing the confused officers gathered outside the empty club.

The club's followup live comedy stream.

[Ride 'Em]

How dumb are the police? No, don’t answer that question, it is British police. They could have sent one officer to check it out or even just called to see if the club was open by requesting a table for twenty.

[Shandower]

Why bother making a minimal effort phone call when you can send 20 guys to administer a stern talking to?

[AlmightyJB]

Gute kleine Nazis!

[Dillinger]

wort.

[Earth Skeptic]

Police then arrested Blair for acting independently and defying their expectations of wrong-doing and depriving them of a chance to push people around.

[Agammamon]

'Wasting Police Time'.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Retroactive law enforcement!

[Dillinger]

Monday Morning Minority Report.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

We all laugh at Garbage Island antics, but all I see are cautionary tales.

I hope for four more years and at least a hundred new [originalist] judges. At least it might stave it off in my lifetime.

[D-Pizzle]

I hope someone calls the police on the person who reported this. Good and hard.

[Bacon-Munching Infidel]

He could get in real hot water over it.

[macsnafu]

Busybodies are bad enough; it's worse when they misunderstand the situation.