Seems to me that the BBC can't decide if it's organized. (or 
disorganized), crime.

Cotty wrote:
> On 23/1/07, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
>   
>>> Define distasteful !
>>>       
>> I meant it as a generic statement.  Distasteful varies from person to
>> person, as well as having a cultural side.  As a personal guide, I would
>> have it mean "to take advantage of the subject".  You could add
>> disclaimers such as "for no valid reason" but then you are into defining
>> validity.  Everyone knows what their personal beliefs and customs are. 
>> Sometimes it is good to move outside them, even by accident, but one
>> needs to know why.
>>     
>
> Granted. Everyone has limits, but I think setting them generically is
> implausible. Mercifully we have the rule of law in the civilised world
> because obviously we do not want anarchy. It's a tricky area. I'm a
> hardass newsguy but I tell you what - if I found a tenner lying in the
> road, I'd take it to the police station. And in fact I have.
>
> I have no bones about filming/photographing a corpse, but trudging along
> a beach with bits of motorcycle I find abhorrent !
>
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6291191.stm>
>
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6290887.stm>
>
>   


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