If only rank stupidity was a crime

PLEASE tell me you haven’t donated to Mark Meechan’s charity page, which has raised £100,000 to appeal a court conviction?

The idiot was convicted of a hate crime last month, for teaching his girlfriend’s dog to respond with a Nazi salute when prompted by statements such as ‘Heil Hitler’ and ‘gas the Jews’.

Buddha the pug’s obedient salute has been viewed more than three million times by morons on YouTube. At his sentencing, Meechan said that he would appeal his £800 fine and conviction, because he believed it set a dangerous legal precedent against freedom of expression.

Come off it, mate. What a pity that ‘rank stupidity’ and ‘wilful removal of canine dignity’ aren’t also crimes, because he would be guilty of those charges, too.

Meechan is from Coatbridge (in Lanarkshire) and wears earstretching jewellery.

Apparently, when prompted by statements such as ‘time for beddy byes’ and ‘here come numnums’, he bursts into tears and fills his nappy.

But nobody wants to see that on YouTube, thanks all the same.