Arrest for 'gay' horse jibe is absurd, says Tatchell

[emad]

By Roya Nikkhah
(Filed: 12/06/2005)

Police officers who arrested a student for calling a police horse "gay" have been accused of "absurd heavy-handedness and over-reaction" by a leading campaigner for homosexual rights.

Peter Tatchell of the pressure group Outrage! said that the arrest of Sam Brown, a student at Oxford University, "brought the police service into disrepute".

Mr Brown, 21, a student at Balliol College, was arrested for causing harassment, alarm or distress and fined £80 after asking a mounted police officer if he knew that his horse was homosexual.

The student made the remark during a night out in Oxford where he was celebrating completing his English Literature degree.

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[swag]

1. This horse of which you speak,

does it vibrate like a mule?

[Lars39]

2. Or was it tranferred from Crawford?

:rofl:

[swag]

3. Oh yes, that famous Crawford "cow."

I had forgotten its special relationship with President Milking Machine.