… including what looks like a follow-up (no comment regarding the history of Fleet Street or the immediate impulse towards a certain sort of criticism when an organization becomes good at honing in on this kind of thing — in both a narrative and economic sense) :
A TENANT has been evicted from his council flat in South Yorkshire following complaints about his anti-social behaviour. The 25-year-old tenant was turfed out of the Wharncliffe Flats complex in Rotherham town centre, after neighbours reported his foul and abusive language and aggressive attitude towards elderly residents.
via The Mirror:
A cross-dresser given an Asbo for loitering outside a primary school dressed in a schoolgirl uniform has appeared in court after breaking his order three times. Peter Trigger, 60, frightened children as young as five when he wore a mini-skirt and tie and paraded in front of the school gates. Parents complained to police, saying Trigger would bend over, flash his thighs and show he was wearing no underwear. He was given a five-year Asbo in December 2008 banning him from baring his legs in public during the school run.
Caroline and Steve Cartwright’s “unnatural” love-making prompted complaints from neighbours, a postman and a woman taking her child to school. The 48-year-old, from Washington on Wearside, had earlier pleaded guilty to three counts of breaching the Asbo. At Newcastle Crown Court, she was given eight weeks suspended for 12 months and a 12-month supervision order.
During a previous hearing, next door neighbour Rachel O’Connor told the court she was frequently late for work because she overslept having been kept awake most of the night. She said: “The noise sounds like they are both in considerable pain. I cannot describe the noise. I have never ever heard anything like it.”
… Passing sentence, Judge Beatrice Bolton said: “I’ve heard a very short extract of the noise you make and can well see that your neighbours would be upset and distressed by this.
And — lastly — there’s this:
A 21-year-old man from Steyning has been given an ASBO preventing him from drinking in public places. Christopher Hart, of Shooting Field, Steyning, was given the the three year order on Monday (February 1). The conditions of the order mean Hart cannot have an open container of alcohol in any public place in Steyning, apart from pubs, cannot be drunk in public and cannot go onto the Memorial Playing Field.
