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A year in prison for taking pics with a cameraphone |
axxxr
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The appeal judges said mobile phone pictures could be misused
In one of the few cases of someone getting busted for using a cameraphone for taking non-lewd photos, a man in England has been sentenced to a year in prison for snapping pictures in court with his cellphone.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/3686557.stm
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wapchimp
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No photography is allowed in our courts. Harsh punishment though.
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axxxr
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Very harsh to say the least!...He should have got a fine thats about it.
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kimcheeboi
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WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!?!?
In the USA have something called the 'cruel and unusual' clause regarding punishment in our Constitution...
this is ridiculous
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Rookwise
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The 4 sports centers that I work at all have a mobile phone ban. Doesent matter if it has a camera or not. |
Payalnik
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The cameraphones are really a headache for many companies and governments
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Jezzaj
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harsh sentence,obviously the courts are making the example of him to stop the problem.unbelievable when you see some of the lenient sentences handed out in UK courts |
damo55
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No photos in court.Thats the ever corrupt government for u isnt it?Magistrates and police are arseholes.More bent than general society,yet they get away with allsorts,don't they?.Anything to do with the queen is bent.Die in hell u old bitch,may you develop severe cancer immediately.
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riflogic
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This is shocking to say the least.
But on the other hand had the same happened in a country like Saudi Arabia, the sentence would probably be a 100 years or something!!! |
bionrg
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In those countrys they would chop off the hand that snapped the picture. :-D
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Vlammetje
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this may be a foreign concept to many of you.... but how about following the rules?
One may not take pictures in court because the defendants too have right to some privacy. not every defendant is guilty, remember? This rule is not new. Anybody who chooses to break the rules faces punishment.
And it's never smart to break the rules right in the faces of the people who decide on punishment 
So it's very much his own fault.
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Jowi
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dont wanna go to england. |
masseur
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what is interesting is that while photos cannot be taken in court, artists can make drawings of the defendant etc and these can, and are, published in newspapers and shown on TV news etc and very often are quite life like
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energetic
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Also at cinemas here in Greece and not only I presume, before showing the movie there is a warning for using your phone camera to record any scenes. It is not allowed by law etc etc.
Big headache for many corporations as well.
The next thing is a "mobile on" detector I guess.
Or a "kill mobile" device! Now that would be scary!
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Vlammetje
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On 2004-05-27 08:59:54, masseur wrote:
what is interesting is that while photos cannot be taken in court, artists can make drawings of the defendant etc and these can, and are, published in newspapers and shown on TV news etc and very often are quite life like
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don't know about england, but here they may only make a profile drawing from beside and behind the defendant (as if they look over your shoulder), never draw their faces from the frontside.
They may be recognizable still to those who know them I suppose  but they're not close enough to make you recognise them on the street should you run into them.
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Posted: 2004-05-06 20:20
