Shopkeeper in Lewes ordered to remove “obscene” chair from her window

11:10am Wednesday 28th December 2011 in News By James Wallin

PLAYBOY: Designer Laura Diez with the “obscene” chair PLAYBOY: Designer Laura Diez with the “obscene” chair

Police officers have ordered a shopkeeper to remove an “obscene” chair from her window.

The outrageous piece of furniture in question was decorated with images from 1950s Playboy magazines.

Officers visited the Print Room in Station Street, Lewes, after complaints from members of the public. They said the saucy seat contravened the Obscene Publications Act.

The shop owner was so bemused by the request that she has draped it with its own public health warning.

The cheeky chair was the brainchild of Laura Diez, who runs Lollipop and Pepper at the Needlemakers in West Street.

She said: “I can’t believe anyone in their right mind could actually be offended by this.

“I used 1950s Playboys which are no more scandalous than the front cover of some men’s magazines which are on show in any newsagents."

The sign now hanging from the chair, which is for sale at £95, reads: “This chair has been deemed inappropriate for public view. Please take care.”

Shop owner Lucy Wilkes said: “We have had almost entirely positive comments from people apart from one woman who thought it was inappropriate."

A Sussex Police spokeswoman said: “Police attended a Lewes shop following a complaint from a member of the public regarding an item that was on display in the shop window.

“The member of public was offended by the images displayed on a chair and the shop owner was politely asked by police to remove it from public view, which he voluntarily did.”

Do you think the chair is offensive? Tell us by commenting below, by emailing letters@theargus.co.uk or writing to our letters page.

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Allan says...
11:42am Wed 28 Dec 11

erm ... I will put the dubious chair in the window, get loads of free publicity and make a fortune in sales. Why does the Argus keep falling for these stories?

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ajpj says...
11:43am Wed 28 Dec 11

How stupid,she should have stood her ground & refused, there is no way that she cold have been prosecuted for an offence under the Obscene Publications Act, I suspect that she probably spoke to one of the "Blunket Bobbys" (God help us) I feel that the shop keeper has missed out on some very valuable publicity here ....

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Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit says...
11:50am Wed 28 Dec 11

Further proof that as a nation over the last few years we've become more intolerant, more hysterical and more puritanical. One person (one person!) complains and the police have to invest time and money in an investigation - and then make a subjective judgement that the piece is 'obscene'. I suppose we should be grateful that they didn't arrest the shop owner for moral corruption.

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Maxwell's Ghost says...
11:59am Wed 28 Dec 11

So you can't have naked women on display in Lewes, but you can put explosives in parking meters and blow innocent passers-by to pieces and hurtle through town on November 5 with a barrel of burning tar.
Come on Lewes, embrace se*, you might enjoy it.

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
12:13pm Wed 28 Dec 11

One person complained. This person may be insane, mentally ill or a Fascist. This person if they want to complain ,should not be anonymous and explain why they are aggravating this business. They should not affect the 99.9 percent who think it's ok. Thats not democracy. Although I must say any publicity is good publicity, and he's done the artist a favour! So I say to the complainer, 'Up your's' from all of us.

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svenradio says...
1:02pm Wed 28 Dec 11

some excellent posts - personally I would like to submit a complaint against the person who originally complained on the grounds of wasting police time, and spending tax payers money on idiotic complaints. Why doesn't the Argus flush the culprit out?

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jamie-hove says...
1:09pm Wed 28 Dec 11

How absurd - on that basis every single newsagent in the town should be forced to removed the **** from the top shelf and the sun and the star from the bottom shelf. That may, of course, be a very good thing ! Why is it that the police over-react to the smallest and most pathetic complaints that are essentially a matter or personal taste and yet are quite happy to sell stories to tabloids and are never available when break ins or muggings occur. What a strange sense of priorities.

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StevieD says...
1:13pm Wed 28 Dec 11

svenradio wrote:
some excellent posts - personally I would like to submit a complaint against the person who originally complained on the grounds of wasting police time, and spending tax payers money on idiotic complaints. Why doesn't the Argus flush the culprit out?
100% agree

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whereisthe...? says...
1:16pm Wed 28 Dec 11

You bunch of morons.

Always complaining about everything being sexualised and how there are no morals and our kids are exposed to this vacuum.


Then the MOMENT this involves DOING something about it, especially involving removing pictures of naked women, you all become like middle aged Tories from the Seventies, berating anyone for contemplating such action.


Whole point is that this item was on public display where any kids could have seen it. This is obviously dumb (as everyone who gives a cr*p about others knows, unless you just consider yourself all the time).



Pull your heads out of your you-know-whats and your opinions out of The Sun and out of the Seventies!

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diriky says...
1:32pm Wed 28 Dec 11

this is ridiculous ! tracy emmin was not prosecuted or warned about a dirty bed strewn with condoms! so why create mischief over a chair?? this country appears to be living by medieval standards!

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AmboGuy says...
1:33pm Wed 28 Dec 11

whereisthe...? wrote:
You bunch of morons.

Always complaining about everything being sexualised and how there are no morals and our kids are exposed to this vacuum.


Then the MOMENT this involves DOING something about it, especially involving removing pictures of naked women, you all become like middle aged Tories from the Seventies, berating anyone for contemplating such action.


Whole point is that this item was on public display where any kids could have seen it. This is obviously dumb (as everyone who gives a cr*p about others knows, unless you just consider yourself all the time).



Pull your heads out of your you-know-whats and your opinions out of The Sun and out of the Seventies!
Yep looks like me could have found the culprit here!! This user name should be 'whereisthe...common sense?'.
I think it's quite telling that this happened in Lewes as that town does seem to have more than its fair share of stuck up nimbys living there.

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george smith says...
1:39pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Why is this shop owner using images that exploit women. Then moaning when asked to remove it? I thought lewes was very PC?

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Pork William says...
1:49pm Wed 28 Dec 11

No doubt it was a cropped-haired, dungeree-wearing, Green-voting feminist with zero sense of humour who complained...

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Ballroom Blitz says...
1:50pm Wed 28 Dec 11

whereisthe...? wrote:
You bunch of morons.

Always complaining about everything being sexualised and how there are no morals and our kids are exposed to this vacuum.


Then the MOMENT this involves DOING something about it, especially involving removing pictures of naked women, you all become like middle aged Tories from the Seventies, berating anyone for contemplating such action.


Whole point is that this item was on public display where any kids could have seen it. This is obviously dumb (as everyone who gives a cr*p about others knows, unless you just consider yourself all the time).



Pull your heads out of your you-know-whats and your opinions out of The Sun and out of the Seventies!
The only morons I see are the person who originally complained, and now YOU.
I suppose you would like all the paintings of nudes removed from the National Gallery as well, while you are at it. After all, parties of schoolchildren go there on a daily basis, and are bound to be utterly scandalised and shocked to the core.
It's you who needs to pull your head out of your a**e, you muppet, and grow up.

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Ballroom Blitz says...
1:52pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Also, this chair could not in any way contravene the Obscene Publications Act, so if plod quoted that as a reason to have the chair removed, they were lying.

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Beethoven says...
2:16pm Wed 28 Dec 11

So... If I were a shopkeeper on a quiet day, I put said chair in window, I get a friend to complain to the police.....After a polite visit from the Law who say it might be better not on display in Lewes...I phone The Argus who give me loads of Free Advertising !

Brilliant, if that is how it happened.

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John Steed says...
2:18pm Wed 28 Dec 11

im not a misogynist, but in the words of captain mainwaring, "stupid woman" & im not refering to the shop keeper.

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ShorehamBeachcomber says...
2:26pm Wed 28 Dec 11

It's the same as Miss World it's fatter less pretty older jealous women every time that have an issue & it's the same here

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Maxwell's Ghost says...
2:30pm Wed 28 Dec 11

A grown up naked woman is a beautiful sight and has nothing to do with se*ualising children which is about children dressing and behaving as adult women which most people would find inappropriate.
In this age when two thirds of British women are obese, I like to hark back to the golden age of slim, beautiful British beauties, even if they are only adorning a chair in Lewes.

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cookie_brighton says...
2:33pm Wed 28 Dec 11

I have to laugh at this.
Mens magazines are on sale in every newsagent, which shows more of the female body than the pics on the chair do, for ANYONE to view.
also there is a nudist beach on Brighton Seafront and of course the Naked Bike ride which occurs every year in Brighton.
We now live in the 21st century not 1950s.

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cookie_brighton says...
2:35pm Wed 28 Dec 11

oops....just realised the shop, in question , is in Lewes........disrega
rd my last

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Fight Back says...
3:11pm Wed 28 Dec 11

whereisthe...? wrote:
You bunch of morons.

Always complaining about everything being sexualised and how there are no morals and our kids are exposed to this vacuum.


Then the MOMENT this involves DOING something about it, especially involving removing pictures of naked women, you all become like middle aged Tories from the Seventies, berating anyone for contemplating such action.


Whole point is that this item was on public display where any kids could have seen it. This is obviously dumb (as everyone who gives a cr*p about others knows, unless you just consider yourself all the time).



Pull your heads out of your you-know-whats and your opinions out of The Sun and out of the Seventies!
I assume you were the one baby born with clothes already on then ? Idiot !

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
3:28pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Ps, and I forgot to wish the complainer another miserable new year.

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
4:12pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Pps, forgot to say I wanted to use the phrase 'B*ms on seats' in a new context.

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
4:13pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Pps, forgot to say I wanted to use the phrase 'B*ms on seats' in a new context.
Can I write bum?

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
4:14pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Pps, forgot to say I wanted to use the phrase 'B*ms on seats' in a new context.
Can I write bum?
Did not need the asterisk after all!

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
4:16pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Pps, forgot to say I wanted to use the phrase 'B*ms on seats' in a new context.
Can I write bum?
Did not need the asterisk after all!
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bumbum

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Fight Back says...
5:10pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Pps, forgot to say I wanted to use the phrase 'B*ms on seats' in a new context.
Can I write bum?
Did not need the asterisk after all!
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bumbum
I name that tune in 3 !

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All 9 of me says...
6:12pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Maxwell's Ghost wrote:
A grown up naked woman is a beautiful sight and has nothing to do with se*ualising children which is about children dressing and behaving as adult women which most people would find inappropriate.
In this age when two thirds of British women are obese, I like to hark back to the golden age of slim, beautiful British beauties, even if they are only adorning a chair in Lewes.
I can remember back to the days when women still had pubic hair

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keswick says...
6:14pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Sussex Police at their best. Why not try using some discretion but that would require the use of a brain cell. Useless plod.

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Cash Cow says...
6:20pm Wed 28 Dec 11

So if I make a formal complaint about the naked bike ride, which like it or not is highly offensive to many people, would it be stopped. Actually, could some one please explain. How can it be an offence to walk around a busy town centre completely naked on any given day of the year, yet it's OK to ride a cycle naked on another? Any Police Officers or Barristers explain this please?

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Helen G says...
6:20pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Narrow minded stupid person who has nothing to do with their time but walk about looking for some reason to complain. Maybe this bigot has never been in nearby Brighton, Worthing or heaven forbid Soho London - then he/she would have to be rushed with an oxygen mask on to the nearest hospital after looking at all the things people put into shop windows. How sad that as we near to the end of 2011 there are still people living with blinders on their eyes.
Its a big wide world out there, with all kinds of different things for all kinds of different people. Wake up and see the sights before you start pushing up the daisies!!!

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gordongull says...
6:29pm Wed 28 Dec 11

All 9 of me wrote:
Maxwell's Ghost wrote:
A grown up naked woman is a beautiful sight and has nothing to do with se*ualising children which is about children dressing and behaving as adult women which most people would find inappropriate.
In this age when two thirds of British women are obese, I like to hark back to the golden age of slim, beautiful British beauties, even if they are only adorning a chair in Lewes.
I can remember back to the days when women still had pubic hair
Was this before the Brazilian invasion?

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Maxwell's Ghost says...
7:09pm Wed 28 Dec 11

......and the time when women had their own soft breasts instead of these ugly hard appendages which are really quite nasty to the touch.
You never know if you are getting a pretend lady.

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kentan says...
7:27pm Wed 28 Dec 11

TC....didn't that song go...."Bum, Titty, Bum, Titty, Bum, Bum, Bum"
Name that tune.
Otherwise it's "Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream"

Not Newhaven or Peacehaven......late
st triangle of interest is "Shavenhaven",.... near Lewes?

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Hotbeans says...
7:37pm Wed 28 Dec 11

I live in Lewes and I can wholeheartedly say that I do not object to naked women. Not on chairs, not in most places actually. But I do object to them when I'm just buying a pint of milk from a newsagent with my young son. Naked ladies are, of course, how we all manage to be here in the first place, but I don't need them peeking at me over the top of Anglers bleedin Mail when I'm trying to decide between full fat organic or semi skinned. Tacky and unnecessary to be reminded of the popular sport of onanism when you simply need to replenish the currently depleted said dairy product.

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nicole/bob says...
7:43pm Wed 28 Dec 11

What an interesting article and are amazed that Lewes Police can have seriously invested valuable time and resources over such a trivial matter...compare and contrast the situation in neighbouring Brighton and Hove where such things as the Naked Bike Ride and Gay Pride Parade are condoned if not actually actively supported by the local Council and police, not to mention the Argus itself which appears to glorify in such obscene events in full view of young children...what sort of message does this give to them we wonder!

Bob & Nicole, Hove

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twosugars says...
7:56pm Wed 28 Dec 11

The shopkeeper was lucky the police didnt insist the chairlegs were covered with small trousers in order to prevent unnecessary arousal. Also, the brazen hussey on the towns war memorial is showing an awful lot of unfettered bosom and she's flanting it in the middle of the high street. Is the mystery complainant going to have a Mary Whitehouse moment about that as well?

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
7:57pm Wed 28 Dec 11

nicole/bob wrote:
What an interesting article and are amazed that Lewes Police can have seriously invested valuable time and resources over such a trivial matter...compare and contrast the situation in neighbouring Brighton and Hove where such things as the Naked Bike Ride and Gay Pride Parade are condoned if not actually actively supported by the local Council and police, not to mention the Argus itself which appears to glorify in such obscene events in full view of young children...what sort of message does this give to them we wonder!

Bob & Nicole, Hove
Perhaps Lewes police working out their frustration at not being able to apprehend the Parking Meter Bomber after god knows how many years.

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Maxwell's Ghost says...
7:59pm Wed 28 Dec 11

goodness, according to hotbeans they have naked ladies peering over the milk in corner shops in Lewes.
Lucky devils.
Hey hotbeans, I would be more worried about your son seeing Anglers Mail than mucky mags. Oggling naked ladies is far more normal for a lad than hanging out on a riverbank dressed in camouflage gear.

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nicole/bob says...
8:30pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Hi Maxwell...just hope you don't leave any copies of the naked ladies from the WI lying around!

Bob

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nicole/bob says...
9:32pm Wed 28 Dec 11

FAO James Wallin...The Argus...Hi James, a really good piece of reporting on this. Have to say that contrary to one poster's comments, you did not refer to the piece of furniture in question as"outrageous", you simply objectively reported the facts of the case.

Well done! Bob, Hove

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Maxwell's Ghost says...
9:36pm Wed 28 Dec 11

This story really has tittilated the readers.

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kentan says...
10:16pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Bob & Carole, Ted & Alice live in Lewes.
Fireworks in the bedroom, by tradition.
Swappers paradise.......decad
ent capital of Sussex.....has no equal....Brighton doesn't come near.....you only have to see what they tweet on twitter.....unbeliev
able !!!!.....hotbed of sex and depravity....join the fun, you'll love it, no regrets.

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
10:51pm Wed 28 Dec 11

Theatre Royal just ordered 300.................
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Baldseagull says...
1:48am Thu 29 Dec 11

Cash Cow wrote:
So if I make a formal complaint about the naked bike ride, which like it or not is highly offensive to many people, would it be stopped. Actually, could some one please explain. How can it be an offence to walk around a busy town centre completely naked on any given day of the year, yet it's OK to ride a cycle naked on another? Any Police Officers or Barristers explain this please?
Nudity is not illegal. Using nudity to "harass, alarm or distress" others is an offence.
As long as your behaviour is decent you should be ok, just being naked is not an offence.
Police would likely still take you in on suspicion of something or other, particularly if someone has complained, but unlikely to be prosecuted.

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Cash Cow says...
4:20am Thu 29 Dec 11

Baldseagull wrote:
Cash Cow wrote:
So if I make a formal complaint about the naked bike ride, which like it or not is highly offensive to many people, would it be stopped. Actually, could some one please explain. How can it be an offence to walk around a busy town centre completely naked on any given day of the year, yet it's OK to ride a cycle naked on another? Any Police Officers or Barristers explain this please?
Nudity is not illegal. Using nudity to "harass, alarm or distress" others is an offence.
As long as your behaviour is decent you should be ok, just being naked is not an offence.
Police would likely still take you in on suspicion of something or other, particularly if someone has complained, but unlikely to be prosecuted.
Thanks Baldseagull, I never imagined for a moment this was the case, though you are right, I checked this out. I usually check things out first, didn't think I needed to so I was surprised by your explanation. Still a very difficult one for the authorities to deal though, if for example somebody complained to the Police about the nude bike ride, saying they found the whole thing highly offensive, would the Police be compelled to act, especially as they responded to something in Lewes which to me seems trivial and a waste of time. It is always very interesting to learn something new. Happy New Year.

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JoeBlow says...
5:46am Thu 29 Dec 11

You'll never see a nipple in the Daily Express.

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Old Ale Man says...
7:44am Thu 29 Dec 11

One wonders what have been said by the police if they were all pictures on that that chair (of our gay fraternity)the Argus print every year after pride day, particularly if it were on display anywhere in Brighton????

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monkeymoo says...
8:02am Thu 29 Dec 11

Old Ale Man wrote:
One wonders what have been said by the police if they were all pictures on that that chair (of our gay fraternity)the Argus print every year after pride day, particularly if it were on display anywhere in Brighton????
Interesting point.

I'm sure if it were semi naked pictures of men, taken during a Pride festival, the Police would have been to scared to do anything about it.


Nice equal society we live in and all that....!

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
9:04am Thu 29 Dec 11

kentan wrote:
Bob & Carole, Ted & Alice live in Lewes.
Fireworks in the bedroom, by tradition.
Swappers paradise.......decad

ent capital of Sussex.....has no equal....Brighton doesn't come near.....you only have to see what they tweet on twitter.....unbeliev

able !!!!.....hotbed of sex and depravity....join the fun, you'll love it, no regrets.
I blame Bloody Mary, Tom Paine, Guy Fawkes and the Bloomsbury Group for all this. Good job they weren't all around at the same time!

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kentan says...
10:58am Thu 29 Dec 11

Centre of the action is "The Lewes Arms" .......... new faces welcome ......... look forward to seeing you in 2012.

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Dragon Slayer says...
11:21am Thu 29 Dec 11

Allan wrote:
erm ... I will put the dubious chair in the window, get loads of free publicity and make a fortune in sales. Why does the Argus keep falling for these stories?
.......Because it is the ARGUS! Because dolts like John Steed and Plantwoman and Maxwell's Ghost and Bladesboy think it is an amazing publication full of facts and news.

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Maxwell's Ghost says...
11:43am Thu 29 Dec 11

It's a bit of fun at Christmas you miserable old goats.
Smile for new year, your missus might show you her ti*s.

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Hotbeans says...
12:08pm Thu 29 Dec 11

Dragon Slayer wrote:
Allan wrote:
erm ... I will put the dubious chair in the window, get loads of free publicity and make a fortune in sales. Why does the Argus keep falling for these stories?
.......Because it is the ARGUS! Because dolts like John Steed and Plantwoman and Maxwell's Ghost and Bladesboy think it is an amazing publication full of facts and news.
Bell end.

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
12:17pm Thu 29 Dec 11

kentan wrote:
Centre of the action is "The Lewes Arms" .......... new faces welcome ......... look forward to seeing you in 2012.
Forgot to blame the Harveys, exposing the Lewes population to Rodan's Kiss statue and post traumatic stress disorder from the avalanche, floods of 63 and 2000 and the Battle of Lewes 1264.

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smegbuster says...
1:17pm Thu 29 Dec 11

jamie-hove wrote:
How absurd - on that basis every single newsagent in the town should be forced to removed the **** from the top shelf and the sun and the star from the bottom shelf. That may, of course, be a very good thing ! Why is it that the police over-react to the smallest and most pathetic complaints that are essentially a matter or personal taste and yet are quite happy to sell stories to tabloids and are never available when break ins or muggings occur. What a strange sense of priorities.
Some people don't think about what they're saying! The chair was IN THE FRONT WINDOW. Newsagents do not put adult magazines on display IN THE FRONT WINDOW, but discretely on the top shelf of the magazine racks. Note the DISCRETE here. Personally, I would not be offended, but it would be obvious to anybody that a prominent display is inappropriate for such an item. And not that the police only "politely asked the shop owner to remove it from public view" (last paragraph) as opposed to the "ordered a shopkeeper to remove it" as it has been sensationalised in the first paragraph.

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All 9 of me says...
1:20pm Thu 29 Dec 11

I find the womans duckface more offensive than anything can I send the police round to The Argus to ask them to take it down ?

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kentan says...
1:54pm Thu 29 Dec 11

All 9 of me wrote:
I find the womans duckface more offensive than anything can I send the police round to The Argus to ask them to take it down ?
Her tightly puckered lips give her away ...... What has she been sucking ?

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kentan says...
3:15pm Thu 29 Dec 11

Late night .... Swapping .... in The Lewes Arms tonight.

Password..........T.
B.A.

See you all there !!!

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kentan says...
3:26pm Thu 29 Dec 11

The un-censored truth, printed in Today's Daily Mirror

http://images.mirror
.co.uk/upl/m4/dec201
1/9/1/playboy-chairs
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25687.jpg

Think you will all agree.....a lovely pair.

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Randsta says...
4:06pm Thu 29 Dec 11

This paper should really be renamed the Argus-Advertiser

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Randsta says...
4:07pm Thu 29 Dec 11

This paper should really be renamed the Argus-Advertiser

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kentan says...
4:50pm Thu 29 Dec 11

This story now gone viral ...... reported in The Nigerian News, The Mongolian Chronicle, The Adelaide Advertiser ........ vying for top report in The North Korean Times ........ only Kim Jong Un keeping it off the front page ......... apparently he wants one of these chairs, only thing in N Korea without his father's face plastered all over it.

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Crystal Ball says...
5:16pm Thu 29 Dec 11

Do people really have nothing better to do than highlight and whinge about the mediocre & banal things in life?

Here's a tip: don't switch on your television, don't read a newspaper, in fact don't even step outside of your front door, otherwise you might be 'offended' at what you see & hear.

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
5:30pm Thu 29 Dec 11

kentan wrote:
This story now gone viral ...... reported in The Nigerian News, The Mongolian Chronicle, The Adelaide Advertiser ........ vying for top report in The North Korean Times ........ only Kim Jong Un keeping it off the front page ......... apparently he wants one of these chairs, only thing in N Korea without his father's face plastered all over it.
Lol. Still a picture of an a*se though.

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
5:36pm Thu 29 Dec 11

Come on readers, nearly at the top of the list. Lets get the comments count up. We're at 65, sure we can beat some old story about Mc Anuff or something currently on 75.

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Ballroom Blitz says...
11:35am Fri 30 Dec 11

I'm just posting again, not because I have anything more to say, but just to try and get it to the top of the list!

Happy New Year.

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nickymitch says...
12:15pm Fri 30 Dec 11

Pork William wrote:
No doubt it was a cropped-haired, dungeree-wearing, Green-voting feminist with zero sense of humour who complained...
the police report says 'a member of the public' seems you have an axe to grind, perhaps one could say .....'no doubt it was a daily mail wielding retired ex-army tory MP' way to miss the point cretin.

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Old Ale Man says...
12:26pm Fri 30 Dec 11

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Telscombe Cliffy wrote: Pps, forgot to say I wanted to use the phrase 'B*ms on seats' in a new context.
Can I write bum?
No you must not say bum you Bum!!

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Dragon Slayer says...
12:34pm Fri 30 Dec 11

Ballroom Blitz wrote:
Also, this chair could not in any way contravene the Obscene Publications Act, so if plod quoted that as a reason to have the chair removed, they were lying.
No change there then.....l.

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Dragon Slayer says...
12:39pm Fri 30 Dec 11

keswick wrote:
Sussex Police at their best. Why not try using some discretion but that would require the use of a brain cell. Useless plod.
Agreed..No change there then.....

Still at least the women got her 'Sucking Golf Balls Through a Hosepipe' picture printed and an nice advert in the Argus, which is always helpful at Christmas.

Ps

Did that seat have a crack in it?

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AmboGuy says...
3:23pm Fri 30 Dec 11

Dragon Slayer wrote:
keswick wrote:
Sussex Police at their best. Why not try using some discretion but that would require the use of a brain cell. Useless plod.
Agreed..No change there then.....

Still at least the women got her 'Sucking Golf Balls Through a Hosepipe' picture printed and an nice advert in the Argus, which is always helpful at Christmas.

Ps

Did that seat have a crack in it?
They were called out so they had to take action. How about your new years resolution is to try and lose that massive chip on your shoulder keswick.

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GIVE UP says...
5:25pm Fri 30 Dec 11

SHE'LL GET A LOT MORE THAN 95 QUID.I'M SURE SOME ART GALLERY WOULD LOVE TO BUY IT,AFTER ALL IT'S MADE THE NATIONAL PAPERS

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
8:22pm Fri 30 Dec 11

one more post and we're up to 76.

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kentan says...
8:22pm Fri 30 Dec 11

We've cracked it ....... Hooorah !!!
Is that applause or just the sound of bare bums on so called obscene melamine seats ? Quite a shock to the system on a cold day .............
Now equal top of the comments section, lets go for the magical 100.
What sort of sum will it make on Ebay charity auction ?

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
8:30pm Fri 30 Dec 11

Will the Argus now report on what is now a national story about what is the latest value/whereabouts of the chair. Is it now in the British Museum next to Grayson Perry's motorbike?

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kentan says...
9:01pm Fri 30 Dec 11

Can now be put on show with objects recovered from inside peoples bodies (see today's Argus story about the unusual A and E emergencies).
Naturally the gallery will have obscured windows ........ we don't want to offend that that complainant again !

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kentan says...
9:01pm Fri 30 Dec 11

Can now be put on show with objects recovered from inside peoples bodies (see today's Argus story about the unusual A and E emergencies).
Naturally the gallery will have obscured windows ........ we don't want to offend that that complainant again !

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bogs says...
9:01pm Fri 30 Dec 11

AmboGuy wrote:
Dragon Slayer wrote:
keswick wrote:
Sussex Police at their best. Why not try using some discretion but that would require the use of a brain cell. Useless plod.
Agreed..No change there then.....

Still at least the women got her 'Sucking Golf Balls Through a Hosepipe' picture printed and an nice advert in the Argus, which is always helpful at Christmas.

Ps

Did that seat have a crack in it?
They were called out so they had to take action. How about your new years resolution is to try and lose that massive chip on your shoulder keswick.
So if they have to take action when they are called out, as you believe is the case, why don't they do more than issue a crime number for a break in? 'Cos that would involve investigating a crime! They now have far more important things to do than deal with crime!!
Chip my armpit....

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ChrisDS says...
8:49am Sat 31 Dec 11

may i first thank all the commenters so far for possibly the funniest read this year, then of course thank the argus for bringing such important information to our attention. And thirdly let us all thank the original complainant and the police who between them have shown us all the ridiculous state of affairs this world has come to. And Fourthly a massive thank you to the chair owner please feel free to put it back in the window ! A happy new year to all !

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sussexguy says...
12:50pm Sat 31 Dec 11

Whatever happened to something called "a sense of humour"? It seems to be decidedly lacking nowadays, and this is another crass example of people with nothing better to do than moan about something utterly harmless that they find offensive. I doubt if any child would be affected by seeing the chair. In fact they would probably find it amusing, and if the idiot who wasted police time, is so concerned, then he or she does not have to look in the window when they pass by. Meanwhile, I wonder how many burglaries, or more serious crimes, were taking place in the Lewes area.

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AmboGuy says...
2:05pm Sat 31 Dec 11

bogs wrote:
AmboGuy wrote:
Dragon Slayer wrote:
keswick wrote:
Sussex Police at their best. Why not try using some discretion but that would require the use of a brain cell. Useless plod.
Agreed..No change there then.....

Still at least the women got her 'Sucking Golf Balls Through a Hosepipe' picture printed and an nice advert in the Argus, which is always helpful at Christmas.

Ps

Did that seat have a crack in it?
They were called out so they had to take action. How about your new years resolution is to try and lose that massive chip on your shoulder keswick.
So if they have to take action when they are called out, as you believe is the case, why don't they do more than issue a crime number for a break in? 'Cos that would involve investigating a crime! They now have far more important things to do than deal with crime!!
Chip my armpit....
Well it's very sweet of you to answer for Keswick but I was hoping he'd answer himself!

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Dingdong123 says...
3:59pm Sat 31 Dec 11

I would of told the police to sling their hooks as the sun displays a nude female everyday on page 3!!! Do proper police work or get out!!!

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gordongull says...
4:25pm Sat 31 Dec 11

Has anyone else noticed that the photo of the delectable Ms Diez wouldn't look out of place on the 'Google Images' page for Cameron Diaz?

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Dragon Slayer says...
12:01am Mon 2 Jan 12

AmboGuy wrote:
bogs wrote:
AmboGuy wrote:
Dragon Slayer wrote:
keswick wrote:
Sussex Police at their best. Why not try using some discretion but that would require the use of a brain cell. Useless plod.
Agreed..No change there then.....

Still at least the women got her 'Sucking Golf Balls Through a Hosepipe' picture printed and an nice advert in the Argus, which is always helpful at Christmas.

Ps

Did that seat have a crack in it?
They were called out so they had to take action. How about your new years resolution is to try and lose that massive chip on your shoulder keswick.
So if they have to take action when they are called out, as you believe is the case, why don't they do more than issue a crime number for a break in? 'Cos that would involve investigating a crime! They now have far more important things to do than deal with crime!!
Chip my armpit....
Well it's very sweet of you to answer for Keswick but I was hoping he'd answer himself!
Who TF is Keswick when he is at home?
I am an original Dragon Slayer.

I would rather have a chip on my shoulder than keep stuffing them in my fat face Ambo Try a... Diet in 2012 your clogged arteries are starving your brain of oxygen.

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