Four months in the can for wearing a T-shirt that had an offensive image?
H/T: Vasara Hammer: “If you have an offensive t shirt, you may have to do jail time. There’s a story of a man who had a t shirt with a picture of chief of police in cross-hairs. He was sentenced to four months in prison. At the same time, convicted rapists get a suspended sentence. This country is insane.”
Aggravated T-shirt Text can land boys even into prison
Especially on a summer terrace you can see one or two raunchy t-shirts. Good and bad taste, each its own character and threshold, but you just can’t print anything you want.
Street sees the picture on top of people with all kinds of texts t-shirts. In most cases, shirts are printed harmless huumorissävytteisiä texts in the style of “granny’s own gold” or “happy mood will replace the missing intelligence”.
However, T-shirts texts can also be an open racist or otherwise offensive startling. The wildest prints may therefore take the applicant’s t-shirt up to the castle.
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– It is possible that T-shirt image or text can be interpreted as being offensive or glorifying threats.
This was the case, for example, of a man whose t-shirt pictured the chief of police. Bullet holes were added to the face of the image and the end of a gun pointing to the head. The Court of Appeals ruled against this man giving a four month judgment, among other things, for threats of violence.
Rajan pulling hard
Police Inspector Pia Holm, in practice, the printing of textiles is very difficult to tackle.
– As an ordinary citizen, or for a lawyer, it’s hard to know what borders on the criminal. It is then decided by the court.
Lore Korpelainen
Yle Satakunta