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'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery
An anonymous reader writes "'Officer Bubbles' — the Toronto Police Constable who was videotaped threatening a G20 protester with arrest for assault over the crime of blowing bubbles at a police officer has had enough of mocking videos and comments on YouTube. He has decided to sue everyone involved (commenters included) for more than a million dollars each. The complaint is detailed in his statement of claim — most of the comments seem fairly tame by internet standards; if this goes anywhere, everyone is going to have to watch what they say pretty carefully. The lawsuit appears to have been successful in intimidating the author of the mocking cartoons into taking them down."
Well..it's good to see that it's not only cops in the US that are douches...
He is the black Canadian Eric Cartman. "RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAH!"
Are you for real? Don't you know bubbles are a detergent? A DETERGENT for God's sake! The situation was on the precipice of doom. DOOOM!
Standard crowd control tactics. If you're facing an ugly mob
Cute girl blowing bubbles scares the ever living shit out of a 6+ feet tall, heavily armed and well backed-up man, see it on youTube!
You can't take the sky from me...
I used to blow bubbles when I was little... then he moved to Canada :(
Walk with Music;
Some times they won't be aggressive enough and things will turn ugly... other times they'll be too aggressive and look dumb.
I couldn't agree more; it starts innocently enough with one person blowing bubbles, but what if someone else had started... two people blowing bubbles. Then three... how many bubble blowers should we as a society have to tolerate before we start supporting our police officer's efforts to stamp out this reckless waste of washing up liquid?
On second thought, maybe the cop should have stepped 3 inches further back and made this otherwise lethal weapon system wholly ineffective. Based on his over-reaction, this guy should be more than familiar with exactly how far 3 inches is...
This guy should join forces with Gene Simmons. They're both douchebags trying to hunt down something as amorphous as fog.
Yeah, but when the maniacs have something as deadly as soap bubbles, well all bets are off. A man has got to do what a man has got to do to protect society from bubbles. I don't like to use the term hero lightly, but in this case...
"But this one goes to 11!"