Comment on Welsh Man Arrested After Standing on a Hospital Roof Dressed as the Grim Reaper
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 1 week ago
He was arrested for causing a disturbance. You’d be arrested for the same thing if you acted like a dickhead at a school or in a police station.
I suspect he was probably asked to stop by hospital staff and he refused, hence the fine
JohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 week ago
I believe he was arrested under suspicion of “Intentionally or recklessly causing a public nuisance without a reasonable excuse.”
I appreciate some people may have been upset by his actions. Who knows, he might need help himself. Regardless, the statutory offence alone is hilarious, never mind the act itself.
Tweak@feddit.uk 1 week ago
The UK is full of these public decency laws that have a lot of vagueness to them, meaning they can be broadly applied even in situations where they shouldn’t.
The ridiculous thing is that “making a youtube video” or something similar could potentially be considered a “reasonable excuse”. Probably easier to get away with it if you’re a network TV show, at least that’s generally been the case over the last few decades…