Wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings

Prison officer sacked for bin Laden 'insult':

A prison officer was sacked for making an allegedly insulting remark about Osama bin Laden two months after the September 11 attacks, an employment tribunal heard yesterday.

Colin Rose, 53, was told he had to go because, although he did not know it, three Muslim visitors could have heard his "insensitive" comment about the world's most reviled terrorist.

Hmm, what could he have said about Osama Yomama that was so bad?

Goat botherer? Naw, too esoteric.

Suggest that he spent considerable time with his cranium inserted in his ventral orifice? Nope, too conventional.

Called him a murdering guano guzzler? That's pretty good.

So what was it?

The Norwich hearing was told that on Nov 15, 2001, he threw some keys into a metal chute at the prison gatehouse. When someone said it sounded as if he had thrown them so hard that they were going through the tray at the bottom of the chute, Mr Rose said: "There's a photo of Osama bin Laden there."

Ooooo, Owwwww, Oooo! That's right nasty!

Andrew Rogers, the assistant governor, told the tribunal: "I am not sure whether Mr Rose saw the visitors.

"I took offence at the comment. If the visitors had heard the comment, they might have taken offence, too."

Andy seems a trifle delicate. Not to mention full of more crap than a Christmas goose.

Mr Knight told the tribunal that the prison had a large Asian population, including many Muslims.

"On Sept 25, 2001, a staff notice was issued regarding the terrorist bombing of America, asking for staff to have continued sensitivity.

"I asked them to avoid inflaming the situation."

Prison officer Mark Ewels, who conducted the investigation, said he had not tried to track down the Asians to find out if they had heard the remark because he thought the issue was too sensitive to raise with them.

What planet are these people from?