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Banned in the UK! BBC fights for right to air riot docudrama

ecigarettes — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:26:27 +0000

The BBC is considering making an appeal against a court order which stopped it from broadcasting a dramatized film on last year’s riots in London. The film, which features actors portraying anonymous rioters sharing their experience of the events, was due to be broadcast on Monday evening, but was banned by a court order hours before hitting the airwaves. Its script was written by award-winning playwright Alecky Blythe and is based on interviews from some 270 people conducted by the Guardian and London School of Economics as part of a study into the massive public disorder.

Disorderly Conduct arrest; arresting kops get a beat-down is SC.

ElGuapo — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 02:47:29 +0000

Folly beach is the only Beach in SC that still allows open alcohol consumption. For the past two years - at least - the various bureaucrats have been trying desperately to come up with a good excuse to justify another ban. They'll get their way and alcohol will be banned on Folly Beach, but most people around here seem to know that the kops went there looking for a fight.

"Police say officers were trying to arrest a man for disorderly conduct, when a crowd then formed around them."

Mayor-Elect of New Mexico Town Banned from City Hall

jonesde — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:30:12 +0000

The mayor-elect is banned because he threatened to release secretly recorded tape of another mayoral candidate getting a lap dance from a topless dancer. The plan is to swear him in as mayor over the phone since he is banned from city hall. And the story gets better: the reason for the election was to replace the previous mayor who resigned after admitting to signing contracts while drunk.

British pair arrested in U.S. on terror charges over Twitter jokes

iconoclast2007 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:04:35 +0000

Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'.

6 Things You Won’t Believe Got Banned By Modern Governments

Karrde188 — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:03:52 +0000

As much as we love thinking of ourselves as the rebellious kids fighting against an oppressive society run by unreasonable old men, the truth is that most things that are illegal are illegal for a reason. Society just doesn't enjoy your public urination as much as you do.
But sometimes, the grownups get it wrong. Hilariously wrong, in fact.

Easter reminder: Kinder Eggs banned in the United States

Renniks — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:14:28 +0000

Not all eggs are created equal in the eyes of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Kinder Eggs, a popular European chocolate egg that contains a toy inside, is banned from importation into the United States because it contains a "non-nutritive object embedded in it."