Well that makes a change!
You are usually quite the multi-tasking fiend.
The Beatles weren't quite rubbish. Page 11
Quote: zooo @ August 2 2009, 6:43 PM BSTWell it was lucky she didn't.
If you're alluding to the paedo rumors, they've been completely debunked. But it's the kind of thing that people will always repeat as if it were gospel.
I thought he actually went to prison? My mistake.
Quote: zooo @ August 2 2009, 7:11 PM BSTI thought he actually went to prison? My mistake.
No, he was given a caution. The story in a nutshell:
Townshend believes he was abused as a small child when he was sent to live with relatives shortly after the war. He was writing about abuse on his website and accessed a single website and viewed a single image because he couldn't believe that someone could enter their credit card number and see actual child pornography. As soon as he saw the image he contacted authorities and agencies to complain and ask that something be done about it. Nothing happened.
A few years(?) later Operation Ore was announced and it was leaked that a major star was under suspicion. Pete contacted the police because he assumed he was the suspect. The cops confiscated more than a dozen computers and conducted a lengthy investigation and found no evidence of any child pornography on his computers. They initially denied that he had ever contacted them to complain about the website and spouted off about how it was typical denial behavior by a sicko pervert, but they eventually relented when proof of such contact was uncovered.
Since Pete had admitted to accessing the website and he had no desire to undergo a lengthy and very public trial that would drag his name through the mud even more than it had already been, he agreed to a caution and was placed on the sex offenders register for 5 years. It has since been removed and the fact that he regularly travels to the U.S. and breezes through Customs is an indicator that nobody really thinks he's a sex offender or paedophile.
Yikes!
What a bunch of utter twats police are.
*edit*
Er, can be.
Quote: zooo @ August 2 2009, 7:28 PM BSTYikes!
What a bunch of utter twats police are.*edit*
Er, can be.
Now that I think about it, those comments might have been made by some sort of charity or aid organization and not the police.
For what it's worth, this is what Wikipedia says:
As part of the Operation Ore investigations, Townshend was cautioned by the police in 2003 after acknowledging a credit card access in 1999 to the Landslide website alleged to advertise child pornography.He stated in the press and on his website that he had been engaged in research for A Different Bomb (a now-abandoned book based on an anti-child pornography essay published on his website in January 2002) and his autobiography, and as part of a campaign against child pornography. The police searched his house and confiscated fourteen computers and other materials, and after a four-month forensic investigation confirmed that they had found no evidence of child abuse images. Consequently, the police offered a caution rather than pressing charges, issuing a statement: "After four months of investigation by officers from Scotland Yard's child protection group, it was established that Mr Townshend was not in possession of any downloaded child abuse images." In a statement issued by his solicitor, Townshend said, "I accept that I was wrong to access this site, and that by doing so, I broke the law, and I have accepted the caution that the police have given me." As a statutory consequence of accepting the caution, Townshend was entered on the Violent and Sex Offender Register for five years.
In April 2007, an article in The Guardian stated that Townshend was "falsely accused of accessing child pornography". After obtaining copies of the Landslide hard drives and tracing Townshend's actions, investigative journalist Duncan Campbell wrote in PC Pro Magazine, "Under pressure of the media filming of the raid, Townshend appears to have confessed to something he didn't do." Campbell states that their entire evidence against Townshend was that he accessed a single site among the Landslide offerings which was not connected with child pornography. The authorities that deal with these websites admitted long afterward that Townshend had indeed contacted them immediately with the information, yet declined to speak publicly about this at the time of his arrest.
Oh well done, drop me in it. 
Quote: zooo @ August 2 2009, 7:28 PM BSTYikes!
What a bunch of utter twats police are.*edit*
Er, can be.
When it comes to paedophilia the police have completely lost the plot; I have posted before about how the police went to extraordinary lengths to drum up a case against a friend of mine, only to have it thrown out of court when the defence successfully argued that even if the jury gave a guilty verdict, the offending image was so harmless that the sentencing guidelines would not have allowed the judge to pass sentence.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 2 2009, 5:47 PM BSTIt's been proven to be a very primary instinct in humans
And chimps:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8174000/8174534.stm
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 2 2009, 5:36 PM BSTMy main problem with The Beatles is that they're not The Rolling Stones.
I love both bands, but if forced to choose the cream of eithers output I'd plump for The Stones: their best, most classic songs were from the mid-late 60's, but their best album is Exile. I think it is kind of like the Stones' very own London Calling. No dud tunes at all really, no real absolute stand alone songs but the album's very much the sum of it's parts. Great stuff.