Comment on Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year

givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So in other words it isn’t even necessarily something they can convict for. Strawberries and whipped cream at the park anyone?

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  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re going to at least have to be seeing a mate that owns the equipment to use it for cream at the park. If you just stick it in a pot and let rip, you’re going to spray non-whipped cream everywhere, which I bet would mean a court wouldn’t consider it reasonable doubt.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re not hard to get nor expensive., and here are instructions to use it legitimately.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does the UK not have a “beyond a reasonable doubt” requirement? How the hell are they going to prove beyond a reasonable doubt it was going to be misused unless they literally witnessed the act? As long as you don’t say anything, you could have purchased it for anyone or anything.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re a plane brains and logic to a situation where they were never deployed.

        There’s a fairly high chance that this law will never be enacted anyway. Given the current political situation we may have a new government by February 2024.

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      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The doubt has to be reasonable, and it undermines your defence if you don’t answer questions. The prosecutor will ask you what you were going to do with the canister. If you decline to answer, you’ve not created reasonable doubt. If you say you were going to make whipped cream, there’ll be follow-up questions, like whether you had the equipment to do so. If you don’t, then it’s not reasonable to take your claims at face value, so there isn’t reasonable doubt.

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