OSLO (AFP) - Police dogs should be considered civil servants and any acts of violence against them therefore merits the same punishment as attacks on human police officers, Norway's Supreme Court ruled Thursday.



"The police officer and dog work ... as a single unit and ... an attack on the dog must be viewed in the same manner as an attack on the officer," the court said in its ruling.

The case dates back to May 19, 2007, when a man breaking into a house in the western town of Bergen was chased down by police dog Vera. Once he was on the ground and was being placed in handcuffs, he struck the German Shepherd.

The man was found guilty of attempted burglary, but was freed in two lower courts on charges that he had attacked a civil servant. Those verdicts were overturned by Thursday's ruling.

"Resorting to violence against a police dog being used to assist in an official operation in the line of duty, and who is under the immediate control of the officer, clearly falls under the article" 127 of the Norwegian penal code protecting civil servants, the court said.

The defendant, whose name was not given, thereby risks up to three years behind bars.

The Supreme Court did not hand down a sentence, but ordered the Appeals Court to re-examine the case.




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Homosexuality should never be encouraged in Africa.

Registrar wins same-sex case

BBC NEWS | England | Registrar wins same-sex case

Killing people because of their sexual orientation, is nothing, and I repeat, nothing to be proud of. However, please continue, freedom of speech, regardless of how abhorrent, and all that.

Same sex sexual orientation is unnatural and something must be wrong psychologically that needs to be dealt with instead of accepting it as the normal functioning. People should not shut out or kill people because of their orientation but should help them.

What is unnatural will prevail if we do nothing.

In agreement with the quoted post below.

A little - I joined this board upon recommendation from a friend, thinking it'd be more enlightening than some other boards I've been on. But when I read threads like this, I see that nothing has changed under the sun.

I'm not here to change anyone's minds about whatever beliefs one might have about this topic (or any other topic, for that matter). But some of the things being said in this thread are very extreme and downright nasty. Just because someone is not practicing what you may not think is "right" or "holy" or "righteous" or "natural" does not give you the right to speak so nasty about them, nor does it give anyone the right to kill them.

If they're not bothering me or mine, I don't give a damn what they do. It's too bad that so many other people care so much that they're willing to see them killed for what they do in the privacy of their own bedrooms.

If the tables were turned and people looked into our (heterosexual) bedrooms and didn't like what they saw, how would we feel?

But then again, I'm probably just talking to myself right about now.....

I have read this post and at least the majority of all the people who posted have said that they do not agree with gay people being killed for their sexuality or beaten.
The majority of people are saying that it is up for other countries to decide their policy.

Just wondering New Improved Morris are you Jamaican or of African descent? I have not really seen any of your posts about you on the board so i am wondering.

The majority of Africans and Jamaicans don't want things to be normalised like it is over here in the West. I don't think that gays should be sent to prison either.

Hi thanks for replying i was just wondering like i said for the reasons that i mentioned in my other post.

Your political aspirations sound interesting.

I wouldn't have mentioned this normally but richie would make me a guy my username is rachie this is not an issue at all and typos happen but i thought that i would mention it just for clarity sake for the future.

[quote=Backatya;1480406][color="SandyBrown"][size="4"]If you had actually read the posts as you claimed to have done (as opposed to 'getting a general flavour' from reading snippets that do not concur with YOUR views) you would see that people here are NOT advocating KILLING people for their preference).
The central theme among the posters here is that CULTURALLY, homosexuality is alien to our culture


LOL, bless you and your naivety Wonder whether I will be banned now for disagreeing with a BNV moderator.

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