He touched a policewoman on the shoulder! Stone him!
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He touched a policewoman on the shoulder! Stone him!
Even by Dubai standards this is pathetic.
Tourist arrested for touching Dubai policewoman
The man touched the policewoman on the shoulder to get her attention and then later on her hand. She has had a hissy fit and the poor sod could be imprisoned for six months and deported.
Total waste of court time and she needs to harden up as this was not an assault. Presumably she chose to join the police force so should be rather more worldly.
Cases like this make Dubai look utterly ridiculous and backward.
Tourist arrested for touching Dubai policewoman
The man touched the policewoman on the shoulder to get her attention and then later on her hand. She has had a hissy fit and the poor sod could be imprisoned for six months and deported.
Total waste of court time and she needs to harden up as this was not an assault. Presumably she chose to join the police force so should be rather more worldly.
Cases like this make Dubai look utterly ridiculous and backward.
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At least it's made it to the news. They'll hate that.
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He should think himself lucky, in the States he would have been shot 6 or 7 times.
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While the level of potential punishment and the fact they pursued it at al is daft l, tapping police officers on the shoulder when they're dealing with someone else doesn't seem like it'd be a very good idea anywhere.
Is there such a thing as a police caution here? Or does everything go straight to DEFCON 1 defamation/molestation?
Is there such a thing as a police caution here? Or does everything go straight to DEFCON 1 defamation/molestation?
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True, to be honest, I just wouldn't touch anyone....mainly because I absolutely don't want to be touched by anyone else.
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When my other half, who grew up in the States and Oz first moved to London she was so delighted that you could just go up to police officers and ask them to be helpful without shit hitting the fan that she added talknig to a copper about the time/directions/having a photo taken to itinerary of things to show other Australians when they came over
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When my other half, who grew up in the States and Oz first moved to London she was so delighted that you could just go up to police officers and ask them to be helpful without shit hitting the fan that she added talknig to a copper about the time/directions/having a photo taken to itinerary of things to show other Australians when they came over
But he was 'approachable' I guess...
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We'd end up hanging around Penn Station in the small hours to get a train out to LI after clubbing but were perfectly safe, even back then, as we just hung around with the NY cops. They even bough us donuts and coffee.
My brother who lives there was non too impressed by any of it.
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Somewhere I have a photo from 20 years ago of a girlfriend and me in NYC posing with a bunch of smiling cops. They were happy to comply but we were a pair of not-unattractive Brits girl who asked nicely.
We'd end up hanging around Penn Station in the small hours to get a train out to LI after clubbing but were perfectly safe, even back then, as we just hung around with the NY cops. They even bough us donuts and coffee.
My brother who lives there was non too impressed by any of it.
We'd end up hanging around Penn Station in the small hours to get a train out to LI after clubbing but were perfectly safe, even back then, as we just hung around with the NY cops. They even bough us donuts and coffee.
My brother who lives there was non too impressed by any of it.
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No idea. This was on Houston Street, downtown. There used to be some cool bars there.
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Desperately keen to go back though, I like them and I think you could spend a long time going around the whole country having a ball.
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There will be more to this story... on both sides of the coin.
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Shame it's so damn far away.