Seven men arrested for wearing the number 1312

AT5 reports that seven fans of Amsterdam’s Ajax football club have been arrested for wearing shirts that sported the number 1312 before the match against Heracles last Sunday.

Police officers apparently were insulted by numbers, as they seem to believe the outcome of 1312 is “all cops are bastards.”

Football blog footballculture.nl—presumably fearing that if the police keep up their censoring ways, fans will have to go naked at this rate—came up with a completely innocuous T-shirt (photo) sporting an apple, some kind of citrus fruit, a member of the Ananas family, and a banana (Dutch names: appel, citroen, ananas, banaan).

See also:

• Man arrested for having insulting, tattooed abbreviation
• Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals (NRC)
• Police still required to fulfil ticket quota (RNW)

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Tags: Ajax, censorship, Heracles, police