Welsh Man Arrested After Standing on a Hospital Roof Dressed as the Grim Reaper

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• 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

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  • 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.

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    • 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…

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