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[-] MrEff@lemmy.world 206 points 3 weeks ago

God forbid someone has a hobby....

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago

Harvesting souls with ma homies.

[-] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 16 points 3 weeks ago

Cracking open a few cold ones on the hospital roof

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[-] Melobol@lemmy.ml 78 points 3 weeks ago

At first glance it is really funny. But of course the people who were genuinely affected are the victims. And nothing funny about it.
Reading the article I don't think the guy is actually 100 there. I believe he is struggling and just acting out - not that it is an excuse.

Gillespie also stole £30 to £40 of cat food and litter from a local Pets at Home on March 26, along with food and drink from Sainsbury's in Llandudno on May 28, a court heard. He was ordered to pay £100 in fines, £100 in cost to the Crown Prosecution Service and £50 in compensation.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not the nicest thing to do to any terminally ill patients or knife attack survivors.

[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

*scythe attack

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[-] GMac@feddit.org 72 points 3 weeks ago

"...pleaded guilty to causing a nuisance without reasonable excuse"

thats a crime? And what would constitute a reasonable excuse?

hey, can we arrest trump for that if he comes back to the uk?

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago

Mate, he didn't have his nuisance license. As punishment he will now be forced to observe the 3pm tea alarm with a glass of luke warm water.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

How is "because it was funny" not a reasonable excuse in this one instance?

[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

People can't agree on what funny is.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"...pleaded guilty to causing a nuisance without reasonable excuse"

thats a crime?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_nuisance

The nuisance action began in twelfth century England as a criminal writ, belonging only to the Crown. It was used in cases that involved encroachments upon the King's land or the blocking of public roads or waterways. The King sought to punish these criminal infringements, commonly known as "purprestures", through criminal proceedings. Over time, activities prosecuted as public nuisances included everything from embezzling public funds to having a tiger pen next to a highway, from assisting a homicidal maniac to escape to placing a mutilated corpse on a doorstep, and from selling rotten meat to "subdividing houses to the point where they become 'overpestered' with the poor". As these examples demonstrate, early authority to commence public nuisance actions was derived from the sovereign's "police power".[10]

Spencer (1989 at 59) describes the offence as "a rag-bag of odds and ends which we should nowadays call 'public welfare offences'".[11] But the common feature of the crime is that members of the public suffer a common injury through interference with rights which they enjoy as citizens. The modern definition is found in paras 31–40 Archbold (2005):

A person is guilty of a public nuisance (also known as common nuisance), who (a) does an act not warranted by law, or (b) omits to discharge a legal duty, if the effect of the act or omission is to endanger the life, health, property, morals, or comfort of the public, or to obstruct the public in the exercise or enjoyment of rights common to all Her Majesty's subjects.[12]


can we arrest trump for that if he comes back to the uk?

I'm pretty sure that national leaders don't normally visit countries unless they are extended diplomatic immunity, so probably not.

EDIT: Hmm. Though...this says that it was abolished as a crime in England and Wales four years ago. There's still the tort, but the way The Mirror described it, he was "fined", and I think that you only get fined in criminal law, not civil law (in civil law, the analog would be called paying punitive damages, at least here in the US).

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[-] cynar@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Likely if he had done it to people he knew, and by extension that this particular prank wouldn't excessively affect them negatively.

Pranking your friends in public, poor taste, but possibly acceptable. Pranking random members of the public, at what could be the worst time of their life...

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[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

A SUCCULENT GRIM REAPER COSTUME?!!

[-] Tetragrade@leminal.space 6 points 3 weeks ago

I expect it would be for things like mental health, cultural / religious, or practical reasons i.e. shouting really loud can land you an ASBO if you do it for no reason, but not if it's part of psychotic episode, call to prayer, or an attempt to alert people to danger.

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[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
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[-] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Please tell me this is a pTerry reference?

ɪ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴍᴜʀᴅᴇʀ ᴀ ᴄᴜʀʀʏ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ɴᴏᴡ

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[-] TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm very tall and one time I was in my 97 year old grandmother's room because I'd had to use her bathroom and she was half awake and said, "No! Go away!" and I was like, damn, ok. But I think she thought I was Death! :/

She was the best. So close to MLK during the Dream speech that she sat on the steps and couldn't see him. Black Panthers would salute her white self. The best. I asked her what the most impactful technology she'd seen in her lifetime was and she said, "the next one." So cool. There's a picture of her and her crew with Jimmy Carter and she's standing in front of him. What a badass.

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 42 points 3 weeks ago

Ok this is a mean joke to play in patients, but I would be lying if i said I didn’t laugh when I read this

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 weeks ago

Someone has to do this around the US capitol buildings.

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Someone needs to dress as the grim reaper and rock up to whatever hospital Mitch McConnell is staying at. When security tries to turn him away, he can simply say, "I'm here to collect Mitch McConnell".

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

"Yeah right, you said that a week ago."

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

"I am here for one. I can take many."

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

Hey no spawn camping

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

Game idea, grim reaper has been arrested, you have to fill in for him while he's in jail.

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[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 17 points 3 weeks ago

What was the crime he was charged with?

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 weeks ago

Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago

causing a nuisance without reasonable excuse

[-] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 weeks ago
[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's the UK law term, not my words.

And even by them, it's not defined, meant to be left to the court to argue.

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[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Impersonating an officer of the law

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

Shut up! Shut up you American. You always talk, you

Americans, you talk and you talk and say ‘Let me tell

you something’ and ‘I just wanna say this’, Well you’re

dead now, so shut up.

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[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago

god forbid someone have hobbies

[-] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

He dressed up in a ‘Grim Reaper’-style outfit at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital in St Asaph, Denbighshire, and climbed onto the roof where he stared at staff and visitors.

Am I stroking out or is that just how the English do things?

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 44 points 3 weeks ago

If you mean the name, that's just how the Welsh do things.

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[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

St. Asaph is a place in North Wales, a nice place to visit.

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 3 weeks ago

Everybody needs a hobby.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 3 weeks ago

hospitals is where death hangs out, as non-coporeal entity.

[-] fork@feddit.online 8 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me of Remi Gaillard, lol.

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[-] tixnou@feddit.cl 8 points 3 weeks ago

costumes are illegal now smh smh

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[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

if I was coherent and the lights weren't off, I think would have laughed pretty hard

[-] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Hahaha what? If I were a patient, I’d be cracking up 😂

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

Your honour, i ask for leniency due to the objectively funny nature of the crime

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