Ridiculous Use of the Law, #4647

[Frozzy]

A man who allegedly trained his dog to give a raised-arm Hitler salute has been charged with breaching Germany's strict anti-Nazi laws.

The dog's 54-year-old owner was questioned by police after members of the public in the Berlin suburb of Lichtenrade complained that they had see the two of them saluting together.

The dog, a German shepherd crossbreed named Adolf after the German dictator, is also said to have performed the trick in front of two policemen.

Nazi symbols and gestures, including words and actions which can be interpreted as condoning Nazism, are illegal in Germany.

The man, named only as Roland T, is accused of wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Hitler and shouting Nazi slogans.

Pictures in the German newspaper Bild showed the man with a Hitler-style toothbrush moustache.

The court will have to decide whether he was mentally responsible for his actions.

But Carola Ruff, of a Berlin animal welfare group, said there was nothing strange about Adolf's behaviour.

"Raising a paw is what they're born to do," she told Berliner Kurier newspaper, adding that a dog could be trained to do almost anything its master wanted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3194360.stm

What ever next... Germany must have some of the worst political freedoms in the EU.

[Dauphin]

Irony.
vii) When an attempt at prevention becomes the cause of an identically opposed situation.

[Crazy_Achmed]

Bild = National Enquirer

[Moo moo I'm a cow]

I have absolutely no sympathy for the tosser.

[Triped]

Yeah, I think that sort of law is a good idea for Germany, although it may have passed its usefulness now. The last thing they needed after WW2 would be a relapse.

[omichyron]

If the dog did the trick for the police... then clearly they must have saluted it first. they should be lined up and shot

[Playa del Carmen]

I'm glad I live in the good ol' US where I can salute and wear my grease paint Hitler moustaches in peace.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Playa del Carmen
I'm glad I live in the good ol' US where I can salute and wear my grease paint Hitler moustaches in peace.

Kinky.

[omichyron]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Kinky.

I don't know.... I think most men would draw the line at a woman with a mustache

[Sex-Machine]

I think this is some good law they have in Germany. The idiot should go to jail forever for doing this.