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If someone's been hit with an asbo for calling someone an asshole, then some of the story is missing. Most likely the two or three years of antisocial behaviour leading up to the incident in the report.
It's not that easy to get an asbo on someone. Once they've got one it is painfully easy to extend or add more stuff (for apparent further breaches the standard of evidence required is pathetically low).
What you have to understand is that in the UK pretty much everybody lives cheek by jowl.
I don;t agree with the asbo system, I didn't agree with them when they were brought in a decade ago, but I recognise there needed to be some sort of recourse, particularly for people living on estates that were being made into hellholes by a few individuals or families.
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