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[AK47]

BBC just reporting that a missile was thrown. Having watched the replay there is definitely a bottle bouncing (behind lane 5\6) about just as all the runners are in the block and about to run.... There is always one idiot. Glad someone has been nicked.

UPDATE

http://www.bbc.co.uk...london-19143628

Olympics: Man held after bottle thrown onto 100m track


A man has been arrested after a bottle was thrown onto the track seconds before the start of the men's 100m final at the Olympic Stadium.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said a man had been heard shouting abuse and was then seen throwing a bottle. It landed behind the sprinters.
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won the hotly contested final.
US sprinter Justin Gatlin, who won bronze, said the thrown bottle had been a "little distraction".
Speaking after the race he said: "I didn't know what it was.
"But when you're in those blocks and the whole stadium's quiet you can hear a pin drop."

Edited by AK47, 05 August 2012 - 10:54 PM.

[MrKguy]

I always laugh at a bottle being called a missile.

[AK47]

If this were a Football Match it would be covered under Football (Offences) Act 1991 Section 2 - Throwing of missiles. However it's not... Public Order offence?

[Chewie]

I always laugh at a bottle being called a missile.

Why? That's what it is.

Just goes to show that regardless of the occasion, there's always an idiot waiting in the sidelines trying to screw it up for someone else. Lucky it didn't hit anyone...

[AK47]

Ah apparently they arrested him for 'public nuisance' under common law. Haven't seen that one used before ! It's a bit of a catch all.

[Chewie]

Rumour has it that the person sitting next to this numpty (and the one responsible for him being detained) was a Dutch Olympic judo competitor - how's that for Olympic justice?!

Edited by Chewie, 05 August 2012 - 11:26 PM.

[MrKguy]

Why? That's what it is.

Just goes to show that regardless of the occasion, there's always an idiot waiting in the sidelines trying to screw it up for someone else. Lucky it didn't hit anyone...

I know, but the word missile , seemed to like an exaggeration. Why not called it a thrown object? or something more common sense. or a dangerous projectile etc.. . anyways, Lucky it did not hit anybody lol.

Edited by MrKguy, 05 August 2012 - 11:55 PM.

[andituk]

2.

a. An object propelled (either by hand or mechanically) as a weapon at a target.

Does that not sound like a thrown bottle then?

[gordon]

When I saw the title I thought this thread was going to be some joke on the Bolt winning again.

[Cheetah]

Moved to the Olympic area

[pmtts]

After the man was arrested by the Metropolitan Police. LOCOG issued a statement that the perpetrator would be served a civil suite, as the bottle was not Coca Cola branded!.

[Rocket]

This just goes to prove that even whilst we witness on TV the absolute peak of human fitness, we can also witness the moronic activity of the dregs of society.

[Burnie]

Rumour has it that the person sitting next to this numpty (and the one responsible for him being detained) was a Dutch Olympic judo competitor - how's that for Olympic justice?!

BBC News and LOCOG agree.

The report is that when he threw it the Bronze Medal winning Judoka hit him across the back. No wonder he looks in pain in the photo of him being dragged out by security.

[AK47]

Interestingly he has now been charged with good old Section 5 POA.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...london-19145035

[Rocket]

God bless Section 5, what would we do without it?

[Sceptre]

I think it would have been quite interesting to have carried on down the public nuisance path and see what the magistrates made of it.

[Judge Dread]

I heard about another bottle being thrown outside a leisure centre in Slough, it should be on front page of ever major newspaper soon.

[Sceptre]

They've now updated it to say he's been charged with S4A: link

[Judge Dread]

They've now updated it to say he's been charged with S4A: link

That makes a lot more sense, it being directed at someone.

Maybe it will be s.2 by tomorrow?

[Rocket]

Sky News still has section 5 listed, I suppose that's close enough for them!

Sorry, on phone so here is just the link - http://bit.ly/QDWJEK

[TallGuy]

I liked the headline "Olympic 100m bottle throw". Now that would have put a British spin on the games, after all there were a lot of people auditioning for this last August.

Glad the drunken muppet got hauled away, and good on the Judo champ for giving him a non congratulatory slap on the back.

[Myky]

"A drunken spectator threw a bottle onto the track! I HAVE BEATEN HIM... unbelievable." is what she (the dutch judo champ) said on twitter
lol!

A NORTH Yorkshire man who allegedly threw a bottle onto the track at the men’s Olympic 100m final, has been charged with a public order offence.
Ashley Gill-Webb, of Cornmill Court, South Milford, is due to appear at Stratford Magistrates’ Court today, charged with intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress.
32-year-old Dutch world judo champion Edith Bosch was standing close by when the green plastic drink bottle was thrown from the stands behind the start line, and intervened.


The judo champion took to Twitter after the event, where she wrote: "A drunken spectator threw a bottle onto the track! I HAVE BEATEN HIM... unbelievable."She told Dutch television station NOS TV: "I had seen the man walking around earlier and said to people around me that he was a peculiar bloke. Then he threw that bottle and in my emotion I hit him on the back with the flat of my hand.
"Then he was scooped up by the security. However, he did make me miss the final, and I am very sad about that. I just cannot understand how someone can do something like that."
LOCOG chairman Lord Coe said: "I'm not suggesting vigilantism but it was actually poetic justice that they happened to be sitting next to a judo player.

"Throwing a bottle on to the field of play is unacceptable. It's not just unacceptable at an Olympic Games but at any sporting event and anybody who does that will be removed. There is zero tolerance for anything like that.

http://www.yorkpress...owing_incident/

Edited by Myky, 06 August 2012 - 06:41 PM.

[Killicksparker]

Photos








Incident: The bottle, in the red ring, was thrown on to the track


Read more: http://www.dailymail...incident-Man-charged.html#ixzz22q2ytlDW

Edited by Killicksparker, 07 August 2012 - 06:20 AM.

[Rocket]

Just a heads-up in case he kicks off; Neil Horan AKA 'Father Jiggy' and 'The Dancing Priest' has been spotted in Stratford.

[Killicksparker]

Just a heads-up in case he kicks off; Neil Horan AKA 'Father Jiggy' and 'The Dancing Priest' has been spotted in Stratford.