# Oh No, Not Rolf Harris Too! (sex crimes) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142 "2013-04-19T16:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/21 "2013-04-21T02:13:50Z")
Very sad. Rolf is the first of the bunch I actually liked. I hope he’s not guilty. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/22 "2013-04-21T04:41:27Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > The BBC is amazingly circumspect. Think about where the TV performers on the list spent significant parts of their careers, and that circumspection becomes perhaps less surprising. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/23 "2013-04-21T06:25:38Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Think about where the TV performers on the list spent significant parts of their careers, and that circumspection becomes perhaps less surprising. Oh, yes. Duh. When I posted that I wasn’t aware that it was basically a BBC scandal. I can definitely understand where the reluctance to be specific comes from now. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/24 "2014-06-30T20:45:25Z")
And the verdict is in. [Guilty](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28055069). ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/25 "2014-06-30T21:08:38Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > And the verdict is in. [Guilty](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28055069). I wonder how this will impact the upcoming Kate Bush concerts? Rumor is that is will consist of two song suites, _The Ninth Wave_ from _Hounds of Love_ and _A Sky of Honey_ from _Aerial_ - which featured Harris on the song _The Painter’s Link_. Will she re-cast his part. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/26 "2014-06-30T21:31:53Z")
Rather than cluttering up our already-overcrowded prisons with people like this, wouldn’t it be a better idea to send them away to some kind of island/continent penitentiary? ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/27 "2014-06-30T21:34:27Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I wonder how this will impact the upcoming Kate Bush concerts? Rumor is that is will consist of two song suites, _The Ninth Wave_ from _Hounds of Love_ and _A Sky of Honey_ from _Aerial_ - which featured Harris on the song _The Painter’s Link_. Will she re-cast his part. I thought maybe as a tribute to Rolf she’d be doing Two Little Boys. Too soon? ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/28 "2014-06-30T21:35:52Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The worst part will be the “Two Little Boys” jokes. Ah. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/29 "2014-06-30T21:38:06Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Rather than cluttering up our already-overcrowded prisons with people like this, wouldn’t it be a better idea to send them away to some kind of island/continent penitentiary? We exiled him to England in the first place. Don’t want him back. 😃 But I doubt his sentence will be terribly harsh. He’s 84 now, and no longer a real threat to anyone I wouldn’t imagine. I’d wager he’d get a few months in a ‘nice’ lockup with parole being granted pretty quickly. Either that, or a wholly suspended sentence. Whatever the situation though, he’ll never show his face in public again and thus he’s already effectively dead as far as the world is concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Why_Bother)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/30 "2014-06-30T21:46:38Z")
I wish I could say I was surprised. I mean, he’s a prolific singer and songwriter, not to mention an accomplished didgeridoo and wobble-board player. Is it any wonder he’s also an expert fiddler? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/31 "2014-06-30T23:16:52Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Whatever the situation though, he’ll never show his face in public again and thus he’s already effectively dead as far as the world is concerned. FTR, I thought he was dead already. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/32 "2014-06-30T23:34:30Z")
then his hide would have been tanned. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/33 "2014-07-01T00:36:34Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > And the verdict is in. [Guilty](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28055069). From your link, > [@](#): > > The judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, has told Harris that a custodial sentence is “uppermost in the court’s mind”. What does that mean? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/34 "2014-07-01T00:48:24Z")
Means the judge basically told him he’s going to enjoy Her Majesty’s hospitality. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/35 "2014-07-01T05:45:54Z")
Aaah, well, good that justice was served. wish the same were true for Saville and others. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/36 "2014-07-01T06:47:47Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Means the judge basically told him he’s going to enjoy Her Majesty’s hospitality. Ahh, thanks, I figured as much, but custodial is one of those words many meanings. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/37 "2014-07-01T07:15:08Z")
The court is also taking into account alleged “bondage games” in which the singer induced a third party to participate in indecent activity with a marsupial. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/38 "2014-07-01T07:59:36Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > The court is also taking into account alleged “bondage games” in which the singer induced a third party to participate in indecent activity with a marsupial. :eek: The wallaby community is staging a hunger strike in protest. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/39 "2014-07-01T15:44:25Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Tie me kangaroo down, sport, indeed… 'allo, little jackarooo! Wanna blow on me didgeridoo? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142/40 "2014-07-01T18:05:45Z")
You Brits crack me up. Not up me crack, as Harris is accused. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-rolf-harris-too-sex-crimes/656142.md?page=3)