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Police officer misspells "nazi", suspect aquitted
Topic Started: Dec 17 2005, 03:46 PM (65 Views)
Knootoss
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(my rough translation)

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A police judge in the Northern province of Friesland has acquitted a 24 year old inhabitant of Joure today on surprising grounds. On 23 September he called two police officers "Nazis". Apparently the involved civil servants were unaware of the spelling of this word; the report claims the police officers were called 'naties' (nations). The judge did not consider this to be a criminal offence.

A natie cannot be compared with a Nazi given the different meanings of these words. A "surprising" verdict, says jucidal expert T van der Groot. According to him this is a typical case of what in jargon is known as "apparent miswriting" - a spelling error."

"In such a case 99 out of a hundred judges say: no problem." Van der Groot thinks it is "very brave" that the judge has acquitted the suspect this time. University teacher Kwakman of the National University of Groningen suspects a "bit of a fun-loving mood" in the judge "who perhaps has had more of these badly drawn up reports on his desk lately and thought of this as an opportunity to get back at the prosecution office."


* hides this case in the jury vs judge debate
~Aram Koopman, Knootian ambassador to the WA
"If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words."
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TBlack
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Right that's it. I'm boycotting anything Dutch. This is clear decimation against dyslexics.
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