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Tutu vs Kilt, a story of Olympic sentencing
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Bill Young
Aug 31, 04 15:18
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Please help me comprehend the justice in “protester” punishments dealt out in Athens.

The Canadian protester wearing a tutu who interrupted the men's three-meter synchronized diving by climbing up on a springboard and jumping into the pool (to the delight of hundreds of cheering fans) was given a 5-month prison term and fined 300 euros.

The former Irish priest wearing a kilt who ambushed and pushed Brazil's Vanderlei de Lima off the marathon course while he was leading with three miles left in the race was given a 12-month SUSPENDED sentence and fined $3,600. The same joker also ran on to the track at the 2003 British Grand Prix wearing a kilt and carrying religious-themed placards and was given a two-month jail sentence for aggravated trespass.

In Greece is wearing a tutu more criminal than wearing a kilt?

Seriously, where is the justice?
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Re: Tutu vs Kilt, a story of Olympic sentencing [Bill Young] [ In reply to ]
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vitus979
Aug 31, 04 15:23
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In Greece is wearing a tutu more criminal than wearing a kilt?

Not only in Greece, but in every other civilized nation, too. Dumb question.

I think the disparity in sentences may have to do with the fact that the diving ballerina was sane, if stupid. Horan appears to be, to put it gently, "touched." And even though the dastardly bastard commited the heinous, reprehensible crime of disrupting a foot race, not being in one's right mind is still considered a mitigating factor in most courts.







"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
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Marco in BC
Aug 31, 04 15:48
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the tutu guy did it for profit (he was advertising an online casino IIRC), personally I'd have fined him 10,000 euros at least, and 100,000 or more euros to the casino itself if it could be proved that the casino hired him to do that (should be fairly easy to do, strike a deal with the guy to reduce his fine or something). I really don't like the idea of 'businesses' being able to do this sort of stunt counting on the fact that they won't really be liable for it...

The Irish guy is obviously not completely sane, so what's the point of giving him a fine? He needs help, not a jail term.
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Allan
Aug 31, 04 16:46
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I read that the Canadian guy (an embarrassment to us all) actually had the choice of doing the jail time or paying a $3600 fine and chose the fine.

Either way, I think that both of the idiots should be tossed in jail for a few years and maybe that would smarten them up. I still can't believe that the guy that attacked the marathoner was even allowed into the country. Unless he was travelling on a forged passport, you'd think that 1.5 billion dollars in security would have run a list of known assholes that disrupt athletic events to the customs officers.
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jss
Aug 31, 04 20:08
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Unless he was travelling on a forged passport, you'd think that 1.5 billion dollars in security would have run a list of known assholes that disrupt athletic events to the customs officers.
I thought he disrupted a car race, not an athletic event. :)
jss
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davet
Aug 31, 04 20:44
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" I still can't believe that the guy that attacked the marathoner was even allowed into the country. Unless he was travelling on a forged passport..."

Do you know how he got to Greece? I don't, but if he drove, took a bus or a train - even a bike he would not have needed to use a passport to get from the UK to Greece.
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cerveloguy
Aug 31, 04 20:49
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"I read that the Canadian guy (an embarrassment to us all)"

Do you remember that idiot a few years back that tried to interupt a NHL hockey game by running on the ice totally nude. Didn't he slip, crack his head and have to be carried out on a stretcher or something??
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jgrat
Sep 1, 04 1:34
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Actually, it's the other way around: if he had arrived in Greece by land he would have needed a passport because all countries neighbouring Greece are not part of the EU or Schengen signatories. However, he could have flown to Greece from Ireland or the UK without a passport -- all three countries are part of the EU and passports, are not required when travelling between EU member states.

John
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