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I don't think either situation should be mocked, but I'm guilty of finding distasteful humour such as the likes of Jimmy Carr quite amusing. People pay to listen to it.

At least the lad in the newspaper apologised and admitted it was taking the theme a step too far. I spoke to my friend today and he provided me with a less than adequate argument for his actions as what he would say if he was in this situation, which I wont repeat for fear of offending people even more.

Boundaries are always pushed, day in day out. This lad is just unfortunate that he's the one who got picked on by the media. Someone has profited from him dressing up that way. He just made a mistake, but someone is quite happily making a living off him and madeleine mccann every day. If anyone is sickening it is the media who write the trash in the newspapers.

Anyway this isn't really meant to be a whinge about my opinion on the topic is it, its about to be about the topic. I think he's handled it quite well and apologised. Some people wouldn't have been quite so graceful.

I suppose you are examples of the power of the media though.