XPost: alt.flame.fucking.faggots, soc.culture.british, alt.polit   
   cs.homosexuality   
   From: dank@nugget.org   
      
     Death wrote...   
   > By LUKE SALKELD   
   > 4th October 2007   
   >   
   > Firemen who shone their torches at four men they found having sex in bushes   
   > have been disciplined by their bosses.   
   >   
   > The crew spotted the men engaged in illegal 'dogging' - outdoor sexual   
   > activity with strangers - on parkland known as the Downs in Bristol late   
   > one night.   
   >   
   > After embarrassing the men by pointing their torches at them, the crew   
   > continued on their way to their fire station.   
   > ...   
   > But one of the 'doggers' complained to Avon Fire and Rescue, ultimately   
   > accusing the four-man crew of being homophobic.   
   >   
   > The firemen, who have 26 years of service between them, were then suspended   
   > on full pay for three months during an internal investigation.   
   >   
   > Yesterday it emerged that two have been fined £1,000 each, another demoted   
   > to a rank which will see him forfeit a similar amount of money, while a   
   > fourth has received a stern written warning.   
   > ...   
   > The crew have been transferred to other stations and ordered to attend an   
   > equality course.   
   > ...   
   > Simon Nelson, the charity's acting regional manager, said: 'The member of   
   > the public simply wanted to know why the fire service was on the Downs at   
   > that time of day. We passed on that complaint.'   
   >   
   > Avon's chief fire officer Kevin Pearson said: 'There was no justifiable   
   > reason for that appliance to be in that location at that time. They should   
   > not have been there and there was no operational justification for their   
   > actions.   
      
   There was no justifiable reason for a person of any profession to be carrying   
   a flashlight as he walks to work at night.  But this doesn't seem right for a   
   country with ubiquitous video surveillance to go around broacasting images of   
   minor criminal offenses all over teevee and the internet, then prosecute   
   someone for illuminating a crime scene with a flashlight.  The local police   
   probably have already planted hidden cameras in the bushes and wank it to   
   the dogging action.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)