From The Daily Mail:
Iran hostage Arthur Batchelor's admission that he cried himself to sleep after his captors likened him to Mr Bean and stole his iPod was scorned as a national embarrassment.
Yet just days after a barrage of criticism for selling his story, the 20-y
ear-old reveals just how little he has learned from the whole debacle.
This picture shows the Operator Mechanic staging a tasteless re-enactment of his 13 days in captivity as he celebrates his home-coming in a Plymouth nightclub. He laughs as he pretends to be held at gunpoint, his ordeal - and his fellow servicemen's vitriolic response to his behaviour - seemingly a long way from his mind.
With a 'blindfold' round Batchelor's eyes, a friend points pistol-shaped fingers to the 5ft 2in serviceman's head. In another picture Batchelor, with alcohol stains on his yellow shirt, has his head held back by a toy rifle placed across his neck.
In a further shot, Batchelor wears a woman's camisole as he poses with three female clubbers.
Batchelor, along with 14 other Navy personnel, was seized by Iranian forces as he boarded a ship in waters between Iran and Iraq. He was blindfolded when taken to Iran and during his initial interrogation, in which he was taunted as looking like Mr Bean.
Batchelor's blindfold 'joke' will be regarded as particularly insensitive because it evokes memories of videos of Westerners being held captive in Iraq.
Its hard to know what to say. The little turd is supposed to be returning to his ship tomorrow. In times past that would have meant that his fellow sailors would have subjected him to some kind of deeply humiliating and painful punishment for disgracing himself, and by extension them, by his actions while being held by the Iranians and afterward.
However it would seem that this lad is typical of Her Majesty's Navy in the early 21st century.
Iran hostage Arthur Batchelor's admission that he cried himself to sleep after his captors likened him to Mr Bean and stole his iPod was scorned as a national embarrassment.
Yet just days after a barrage of criticism for selling his story, the 20-y
ear-old reveals just how little he has learned from the whole debacle.This picture shows the Operator Mechanic staging a tasteless re-enactment of his 13 days in captivity as he celebrates his home-coming in a Plymouth nightclub. He laughs as he pretends to be held at gunpoint, his ordeal - and his fellow servicemen's vitriolic response to his behaviour - seemingly a long way from his mind.
With a 'blindfold' round Batchelor's eyes, a friend points pistol-shaped fingers to the 5ft 2in serviceman's head. In another picture Batchelor, with alcohol stains on his yellow shirt, has his head held back by a toy rifle placed across his neck.
In a further shot, Batchelor wears a woman's camisole as he poses with three female clubbers.
Batchelor, along with 14 other Navy personnel, was seized by Iranian forces as he boarded a ship in waters between Iran and Iraq. He was blindfolded when taken to Iran and during his initial interrogation, in which he was taunted as looking like Mr Bean.
Batchelor's blindfold 'joke' will be regarded as particularly insensitive because it evokes memories of videos of Westerners being held captive in Iraq.
Its hard to know what to say. The little turd is supposed to be returning to his ship tomorrow. In times past that would have meant that his fellow sailors would have subjected him to some kind of deeply humiliating and painful punishment for disgracing himself, and by extension them, by his actions while being held by the Iranians and afterward.
However it would seem that this lad is typical of Her Majesty's Navy in the early 21st century.
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