Andrew Holland, a bus driver in Wales, was accused of being in possession of "extreme porn" of a woman having sex with a tiger. He was cleared of the charge in December 2009—after six months on bail—after police noticed the "tiger" in the video say, "That's grrrrrrreat," in an apparent homage to Tony the Tiger.

Holland told the Independent that friends sent him the video as a joke, and that he only watched six seconds of the video. His computer with the offending video was seized by police in "an unrelated domestic dispute that did not result in charges being brought."

While fighting the "extreme porn" possession charges, Holland, 51, wasn't allowed to see his young daughter for more than a year and was the target of a public smear campaign.

"I lost my job, I had to move and I ended up having a heart attack with all the stress of it," Holland told the Independent. "People were ringing me in the middle of the night. Three young lads turned up at my door and were calling me everything. I was threatened on more than one occasion."

Now, the UK's Mirror reports, Holland is leading a crusade with civil liberties group Backlash to stop "harmless but crude jokes" from leading to prosecution. Legislation against "extreme" pornography, in the form of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act, was put on the books in 2008, and according to the Independent, has resulted in more than 5,500 prosecutions, "the majority for clips of bestiality."

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