VICTOLY: Guy arrested for playing "Kung Fu Fighting"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... hting.html

A pub singer has been arrested on suspicion of racism for singing the classic chart hit Kung Fu Fighting.

The song, performed by Simon Ledger, 34, is said to have offended two Chinese people as they walked past the bar where he was singing.

The entertainer regularly performs the 1974 number one hit, originally by disco star Carl Douglas, at the Driftwood Beach Bar in Sandown, on the Isle of Wight.
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But after one of the passers-by reported his routine on Sunday afternoon, Mr Ledger was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment.

‘We were performing Kung Fu Fighting, as we do during all our sets,’ he said.

‘People of all races were loving it. Chinese people have never been offended by it before.

‘But this lad walking past with his mum started swearing at us and making obscene hand gestures before taking a picture on his mobile phone.

'We hadn’t even seen them when we started the song. He must have phoned the police.’

Officers later called Mr Ledger while he was eating in a Chinese restaurant to arrange a meeting.

The singer assumed it was a prank – but he was later arrested and is still under investigation.

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The spokesman said a 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing harassment, alarm or distress under section 4a of the Public Order Act 1986.

I say 25 to life!

But this lad walking past with his mum started swearing at us and making obscene hand gestures before taking a picture on his mobile phone.

Those cats were fast as lightning. In fact it was a little bit frightening, but they took the the picture with expert timing.

‘People of all races were loving it. Chinese people have never been offended by it before.

Wrong. It's an ancient Chinese art and everybody knew their part.


The complainants are obviously not funky China men from funky Chinatown.

Perhaps he'll choose a more politically correct song next time, like Pat Boone's Speedy Gonzales.

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Really? LOL

Those Chinese are way too sensitive.

Everybody is way too sensitive now.

Kind of reminds me of this... http://forums.nba-live.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=68734 How did this not get into the Hardwood Classics?

I forgot about that. I guess we didn't induct it because it kind of fizzled fairly quickly, we've had much more heated threads over the years where someone's been upset at an admin/mod over something trivial.