PC David Rathband

brettcta

Just a heads up - this thread may contain some serious points. i appreciate that i may, on occasion, post up trivial guff, but i am capable of things other than trying to put a smile on my/other people's faces.

This post is about the policeman who was shot in the face by Geordie madman Raoul Moat, PC David Rathband.

The content of this post shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to most of you. I'm sure we all have one cretinous acquaintance that forwards on text messages just seconds after a celebrity dies, is arrested etc.

I have received 2 text messages this morning, mere hours after the news announced that PC Rathband was found dead at his home, containing horrendously shit jokes about this poor fella (i'm not even going to give the slightest hint as to what the jokes' contents are).

Now, i'm a fairly open-minded individual. i like a laugh at other people's expense, be it irish jokes (my personal favourite) or any other form of humour, including fairly dark frivolities.

I do draw the line, however, at dead people. Yes, they may have spent all/part of their lives in the public domain and some may see them as fair game, but i still go back to the mindset that someone, somewhere, has lost their mother/father, son/daughter, brother/sister. i don't like dead celebrity jokes, but can sort of see why some people might.


If ever there was a time where the inevitable and painfully shit 'recently dead person jokes' are uncalled for, it's in the case of PC Rathband.
I defy anyone to put up a coherent argument as to why laughing and forwarding text messages poking fun at some poor guy who had everything taken away from him and who eventually took his own life is valid.

I also hope that all of these people who started and joined in with the 'Raoul Moat is a Legend' facebook groups take a good look in the mirror today and have a word with themselves.

The 2 people in question from which i received these texts have been adequately bollocked and now both see the error of their ways.

savemoney

My OH gets those silly jokes too, some of them quite sickening. She hasn't had any yet just asked. I dont mind a laugh but draw line of someone dying

Poor fellow I hope his family are left alone. RIP

boobies

I have a rule with this sort of thing, for FB or texts. One message and they'll get a reply saying "Not funny. No more please." Two more and they are deleted. Great way to get rid of those scummy friends that I have been too polite to tell to jog on.

Azari

People who make jokes like that are also often very hypocritical.

After the Concorde crash (where mainly Germans died) there were some very nasty jokes made by Yanks on one of the USENET humour groups. They were very dismissive of the attempts by the more considerate members to get them to see that their so called jokes were not funny.

Guess who were the most outraged when, after 9/11, a few jokes were made. Yup, they very same people who had poked fun at the Concorde crash. Suddenly it was 'obvious' that that was completely disgraceful and bang out of order.

dickydonkin

Azari wrote: »

People who make jokes like that are also often very hypocritical.

After the Concorde crash (where mainly Germans died) there were some very nasty jokes made by Yanks on one of the USENET humour groups. They were very dismissive of the attempts by the more considerate members to get them to see that their so called jokes were not funny.

Guess who were the most outraged when, after 9/11, a few jokes were made. Yup, they very same people who had poked fun at the Concorde crash. Suddenly it was 'obvious' that that was completely disgraceful and bang out of order.

Similar to when the Yanks were financing the IRA via Noraid - however, their attitude changed after 9/11 when atrocities were carried out on their supposed invincible home soil.

They always say that what goes around comes around!

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The 2 people in question from which i received these texts

i appreciate that i may

i like a laugh at other people's expense

from which i received these texts

jc808

can someone fwd me these texts i have no mates you see, pm me and i will fwd you my number

Oliver14

Simple answer get better friends

Azari

dickydonkin wrote: »

Similar to when the Yanks were financing the IRA via Noraid - however, their attitude changed after 9/11 when atrocities were carried out on their supposed invincible home soil.

They always say that what goes around comes around!

There was a very dark irony when Bush said that countries that harboured and financed terrorists would be punished given that the IRA were able to operate freely in New York collecting to support their terrorism.

If you ever tackled an American on the way the IRA were allowed to operate freely in their country they would lecture you that although they were sorry for the atrocities carried out you 'had to realise' that freedom of speech and political action were 'the American way'.

It didn't take very long after the first plane struck for them to see the error of those ways and do a double quick volte-face but the hypocrisy evident in a lot of the post 9/11 rhetoric was quite sickening.