Man fined $500 for calling the PM a %$#*ing muppet
A 26-year-old scaffolder from Tasmania was fined $500 this week after being convicted of behaving in an offensive manner after repeatedly calling Prime Minister Scott Morrison a "fucking muppet" at the Bathurst 1000.
The incident occured at 10.30am on October 7th when PM Morrison stopped to engage with members of the public for a chat and photos. The man approached the Prime Minister and started yelling "You're a fucking muppet" repeatedly.
Arrested by police, the police searched his backpack and found a joint's worth of weed and 5 tabs of LSD.
What do you think? Is the $500 fine sufficient? Or was he simply saying what everyone else was thinking?
The main point is not the profanity or the drugs, he was fined for calling the PM a Muppet nothing more, nothing less. As being called a muppet insinuates that you are walking around with someones arm up your arse pulling the strings to make it look like the PM is the one talking.