Sunday, 20th July 2008
Swedes in hot water after parading in boxer shorts
It probably sounded like a bright idea to impress the girls in Paceville. Or at least a bit of fun. But in one of the most bizarre cases of the year, seven Swedish youngsters yesterday ended up in court charged with "lewd acts in public" after they walked around the popular nightspot in boxer shorts.
Clearly bemused by the experience, the boys aged between 16 and 17 giggled quietly as the inspector explained the charge. The language students were charged with performing "indecent or immoral acts in public" while in Paceville on what the police considered to be a risqué Saturday night out.
"Do you plead guilty?" Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera asked a boy who seemed to be the leader of the group. "Yeah, yeah," was his quick reply, followed by a puzzled look when the magistrate asked if he knew what he was being charged with. "Erm, no" was his equally speedy response.
"We were running around in boxer shorts, we thought it would be funny but it was kind of stupid," he explained.
His friends, all lined up in tatty clothes after a night in a cell, more or less repeated his version or simply pleaded guilty before they were discharged on condition that they do not 'offend' again within a year.
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I need an answer please
Can anybody inform me how much a f/male can get bared to be considered closed, open or a Jared minded? I have the measure tape and I will write down!
Are we modern or civilized?
Is nude swimming allowed? Shall women swim top-less? Or bottom-less? Shall women wear G-string or C-string? And the same questions goes for men too.
I am sure so many ‘civilized’ or ‘liberals’ may say something like:
Ara – what am I talking about, we are in 2008 or, Madonna, how still backward we are. In modern civilized countries such as Spain, Sweden they have a Nudism day and here in Malta we can or we can’t do this and that .. etc.
We are free peoples we are living in free countries!
You may also hear - If you don’t like what you see just turn your face.
But what constitute civilized?
Since thousands of years and until today you see many Africans, South American and south Asian tribes living nude. This is most probably lack of means . While ‘civilized’ westerners promote nudism lack of moralities.
If being civilized or un-civilized is measured by how nude one can be. The African and Asian tribes would be the most civilized peoples.
Oh come on, guys, let's have some decent pepper on this island! It's boring enough!!!!!!!!
And I pity the Police - after all, it's the law they're upholding. And sometimes, that law is an ass.
Common sense should prevail!
No underage drinking, no pointed instruments around, no fights, no drink driving, and obviously no drugs......
Keep on dreaming Mr. Rizzo
And could we fashion cognoscenti please know if at least these boys had the nous to wear designer apparel or did they let the side down by wearing the Swedish equivalent of M&S?
I am sure the police filmed their daring exploit like they did with those female strippers some months past. Please release the video so we can check the latest fashion. Finally imagine what a field day your reporter would have had had they worn swim wear instead. Can you see the bold title on your front page Mr. Editor? " Bobbies ban bouncing boys in bathing briefs"
How about arraigning all the bikini tops clad women roaming Valletta streets?
Looking for Drugs at Paceville is of more benefit to our society.
Well don for the police involved.Great job.
If i were to meet these swedes i would ask them to forgive me...even though i was not involved in this joke.
I would however have sentenced them for contempt of court at the way they answered the magistrate.
What a waste of time and money! Surely some police officer could have told them to put their pants on and behave rather than this overkill!!
MWhat if the above gents were Libyans or black African?
Most probably we would have read hundreds of comments asking authorities not to let any Libyans or a black person stay in Malta ‘as they are a real threat to our kids’.
The color here plays a very good factor. With blondes we close an eye for such a thing. We can even go a step further and ingratiate them. No problem with them at all. We can live and be ‘safe’ and happy with them.
Blondes, they all are fine to mingle with, as long as they fit into our culture.
Our problem, we have traded our Christians values with sex-based and liberty-based values.
Ops, sorry I forgot that we are living in 2008 and we are getting modern! But are we?
Who is going to excuse himself for the acts these students repeatedly do while on holiday? These 'tourists' are being said to leave millions of cash in our economy instead i guess they scare off all other visitors from visiting a second time St.Julians and Paceville, with their immoral acts and drinking in side streets. Now ADT should sue the Students' respective schools for the bad name these students did to the tourism economy.
People in glass houses should not throw stones....
Wouldn't it have been enough for our St Julian's coppers to round up these kids and give them a good telling off. Do we really need to waste a magistrate's time with this bit of tomfoolery?
With boatloads of illegal immigrants assaulting our shores every day, the police have the luxury of wasting public funds and time on hauling 7 teenagers to court for being in boxer shorts!! And in Paceville of all places! Paceville, that hallowed place reserved for all things holy and sacred.
Words fail me, but pathetic, wretched, miserable, incompetent, ridiculous, pompous, puerile, petty, flatulent and other such adjectives do spring to mind.