Taxi Driver Online

Surely he realised he'd be in deep doo doo


https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23431421.southampton-taxi-driver-shared-naked-photos-boss-facebook/

A TAXI driver shared naked photos of his former boss in a Facebook group and referred to him as a “porn star” following an argument, a court heard.

Ian Crabb had fallen out with the CEO of the taxi firm he was working for after starting a relationship with a colleague.

Last summer, the 49-year-old used offensive language towards his boss and was told he could no longer drive for the company.

One week later, Crabb took to a Facebook group to post naked images of his boss that he found online.

These had been taken by his boss in his youth.

Prosecuting, Varun Chuni told Southampton Magistrates' Court that Crabb referred to his boss as a “porn star” and posted fairy and rainbow emojis to accompany the images.

But mitigating, Nigel Couzens stressed that he had posted the images after a dispute and had taken them down shortly afterwards.

"He had a good relationship with the boss until he started dating one of the staff there.

"This is a silly one-off moment. He is not somebody that is going to come before you again.

"He has learnt the error of his ways. He has shown remorse. He knows he shouldn’t have done it and he isn’t going to do it again."

He added, however, that the images were "in the public domain" and that other people knew about them anyway.

Crabb, of Elmes Drive, Southampton pleaded guilty to sending an offensive / indecent / obscene / menacing message by a public communication network.

Magistrate, Gary Chant, told Crabb this was "not the most wise thing to do in the world".

"We hear that it was a moment of madness. There is still a victim in this and the victim will feel that pain for a while to come if not longer."

Crabb was given a six-month community order with up to 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

He must also pay £100 in compensation and a £50 fine.

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Very lucky he didn't end up in prison.

But hopefully the trade has seen the back of him.

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IDFIMH

Surprised he was even prosecuted, to be honest

I mean, photo posted on the internet ends up elsewhere on the internet. That's never happened before

Of course, a lot might depend on how the photo got into the public domain in the first place etc. I mean, it doesn't sound like the perp and the boss were in some kind of relationship, for example, and the private photos were posted online as 'revenge porn', or whatever.

But, obviously, no doubt a lot more relevant information was available at the trial that isn't featured in the report.

Very serious offence.

He posted the pictures as an attack on an individual.

As I said he was lucky he didn't end up in jail.

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IDFIMH

Yes, welcome to the internet

My problem with all of this kind of stuff is that it's so highly selective. I suspect a lot of people wouldn't even bother reporting something like this to the police, if only on the basis that they think police wouldn't be interested.

But I'd guess the interest here was because of one distinguishing feature that I maybe missed first time round, and is only implied rather than specifically stated