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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
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God forbid someone has a hobby....
Harvesting souls with ma homies.
Cracking open a few cold ones on the hospital roof
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Send that person to McConnell, if he's even alive anymore.
Game idea, grim reaper has been arrested, you have to fill in for him while he's in jail.
"...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?
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.
How is "because it was funny" not a reasonable excuse in this one instance?
People can't agree on what funny is.
Some people just can't take a joke.
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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"...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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god forbid someone have hobbies
What was the crime he was charged with?
causing a nuisance without reasonable excuse
Define “Reasonable”
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.
Going against the status quo. Fall in line or go to jail.
That's what juries do.
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Impersonating an officer of the law
^HOW^ ^UNPROFESSIONAL.^
^SQUEAK.^
Please tell me this is a pTerry reference?
ɪ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴍᴜʀᴅᴇʀ ᴀ ᴄᴜʀʀʏ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ɴᴏᴡ
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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.
Everybody needs a hobby.
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.
Down voters haven't seen the movie...
Even if they did, they didn't get it.
"It's a mister Death, he's here about the reaping or something?"
"Hey... I didn't even eat the mousse!"
Someone has to do this around the US capitol buildings.
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".
"Yeah right, you said that a week ago."
"I am here for one. I can take many."
Hey no spawn camping
Your honour, i ask for leniency due to the objectively funny nature of the crime
costumes are illegal now smh smh
slowly starts undressing
How do you mean, this isn't appropriate either!!?
hospitals is where death hangs out, as non-coporeal entity.
(cross posted from the gabe newell own a yacht company post)
A man's gotta have hobbies.
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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?
if I was coherent and the lights weren't off, I think would have laughed pretty hard
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