# Gary Glitter Nabbed in Nam. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981 "2005-11-20T20:55:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/1 "2005-11-20T20:55:57Z")
Man that’s one potent lust for children. [Link](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1330164) When even Cambodia won’t have you things are pretty effed up. What does he do? Goes to Vietnam and continues to indulge his illegal desires. Now he’s under arrest. The thought of Glitter in a Vietnamese prison brings a smile to my face. ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/2 "2005-11-20T21:31:26Z")
If you’re not already aware, Mr Glitter (not his real name) has become immortalised in rhyming slang. To “take someone up the Gary Glitter” is to have anal intercourse with them. I have an inkling that this usage was coined _before_ he was arrested for having pornographic images of children on his PC. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/3 "2005-11-20T21:42:10Z")
I like the name of the foreign ministry official: Le Dung. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/4 "2005-11-20T21:44:32Z")
Og almighty! He’s 61, and going after girls under 15. I’m all for staying young, but be ashamed Mr. Glitter! Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/5 "2005-11-20T21:49:50Z")
That’s just a tragic, pathetic shame. I really love some of his classic, rockin’ anthem-type music. But that’s just messed up. It’s one thing to have a problem, get caught, recognize it as a problem and treat it somehow, but this sounds like he’s totally unrepentant about it. Let him rot. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/6 "2005-11-20T21:58:31Z")
“Doo-dah! Doo-dah!” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/7 "2005-11-21T01:11:52Z")
He first got caught when he took his computer to PC World and they found a bunch of kiddy porn on it-how dumb is this guy? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/8 "2005-11-21T01:27:46Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > He first got caught when he took his computer to PC World and they found a bunch of kiddy porn on it-how dumb is this guy? Let’s review the lyrics to his biggest hit, “Rock and Roll Part 2”: “Hey Hey Hey Hey Heyyeeeyey” Pretty dumb, I’d guess. ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/9 "2005-11-21T01:47:03Z")
Certainly, this particular story gives a lot of credence to the theory that sexual offenders are among the highest recidivism rates in the criminal system. It appears that they’re truly hard wired to be the way they are. Which means that by extension, they can never truly be cured by incarceration alone. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/10 "2005-11-21T01:47:51Z")
> [@Boo Boo Foo](#): > > Certainly, this particular story gives a lot of credence to the theory that sexual offenders are among the highest recidivism rates in the criminal system. It appears that they’re truly hard wired to be the way they are. Which means that by extension, they can never truly be cured by incarceration alone. So what do we do with them then? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/11 "2005-11-21T02:13:40Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Let’s review the lyrics to his biggest hit, “Rock and Roll Part 2”: > > “Hey > Hey > Hey > Hey > Heyyeeeyey” > > Pretty dumb, I’d guess. You forgot the “nananananananana”'s. The man is a born lyricist. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/12 "2005-11-21T02:30:46Z")
> [@Lochdale](#): > > So what do we do with them then? Send them to Vietnam, duh :rolleyes: 😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/13 "2005-11-21T03:11:32Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > He first got caught when he took his computer to PC World and they found a bunch of kiddy porn on it-how dumb is this guy? That’s actually a pretty common way for these guys to get busted. Isaac Asimov’s son got nabbed that way. ---
**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/14 "2005-11-21T03:40:42Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > That’s actually a pretty common way for these guys to get busted. Isaac Asimov’s son got nabbed that way. Sight hi-jack 😃 Weren’t there false allegations levelled against Isaac at one point or does that tie in to his son’s bust? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/15 "2005-11-21T03:46:56Z")
> [@deevee](#): > > Sight hi-jack 😃 Weren’t there false allegations levelled against Isaac at one point or does that tie in to his son’s bust? Other than growing long mutton-chop whiskers decades after they went out of fashion, I’ve never heard a breath of scandal against the late good Doctor. Perhaps you are thinking of the false allegations brought against SF writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke back around the time of his Knighting. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/16 "2005-11-21T03:49:08Z")
> [@deevee](#): > > Sight hi-jack 😃 Weren’t there false allegations levelled against Isaac at one point or does that tie in to his son’s bust? Dunno. I think there might be some kind of bad blood in the family because ISTR something about Isaac’s second wife having a publishing career solely because of who she married. Isaac’s son was busted a number of years after his father’s death. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/17 "2005-11-21T04:01:31Z")
> [@deevee](#): > > Sight hi-jack 😃 Weren’t there false allegations levelled against Isaac at one point or does that tie in to his son’s bust? Arthur C. Clarke was falsely accused of pedophilia IIRC, maybe you are thinking of him. Not sure about Asimov. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/18 "2005-11-21T04:10:09Z")
Wasn’t James Randi accused of somesuch too? ---
**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/19 "2005-11-21T04:27:20Z")
> [@Sir Rhosis](#): > > Other than growing long mutton-chop whiskers decades after they went out of fashion, I’ve never heard a breath of scandal against the late good Doctor. Perhaps you are thinking of the false allegations brought against SF writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke back around the time of his Knighting. > > Sir Rhosis You are correct Sir. The synapses are misfiring tonight. ---
**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981/20 "2005-11-21T04:28:38Z")
> [@Duke of Rat](#): > > Arthur C. Clarke was falsely accused of pedophilia IIRC, maybe you are thinking of him. Not sure about Asimov. As are you good Duke. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gary-glitter-nabbed-in-nam/331981.md?page=2)