A 26-year-old man climbed on a hospital roof dressed as a 'crow' which resembles a Grim Reaper outfit, as he flaunted a long knife has now been fined for his nuisance behaviour
  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    2 hours 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

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    (cross posted from the gabe newell own a yacht company post)

    A man’s gotta have hobbies.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    132·
    6 hours 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.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      15 hours ago

      Wait, if Ole Grim is being detained, then who is going to harvest the souls of dying mortals? Does this mean we won’t be able to die, or that our souls will simply be trapped somewhere between the realms of the living and the dead? Hmm…

        • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          7 hours ago

          If Piers Anthony is to be believed, this will only affect people with balanced souls, but everyone else should be fine. (Well, dead)

          • statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            5 hours ago

            Holy shit. Forgotten memory accessed.

            Dude is about to shoot himself, Death turns up to collect him but has his hood down or something, the guy freaks out and shoots Death instead and has to take his place, right?

            I read that 30+ years ago burning through my town library’s small sci-fi/fantasy section.

            • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              Yes, that’s the one. “On a Pale Horse” is the first book in the series, and the one about Death. In the books, magic and science coexist and aspects of reality like War, Time, Death, etc are all offices that people hold.

              The whole Incarnations of Immortality series is one of my favorites, but it’s been a bit since I’ve read them.

  • TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    43·
    18 hours 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.

  • GMac@feddit.orgEnglish
    69·
    21 hours 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?

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 hours 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…

      • mobyduck648@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        9 hours ago

        I don’t necessarily condone what he did, but to be fair if I was in hospital with some deadly disease I’d find someone going about dressed as the Grim Reaper hilarious. I once found a lot of amusement when I was in A&E with an allergic reaction to a horsefly bite, there was a funeral directors on the ad carousel in the waiting room. Talk about targeted advertising!

        • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 hours ago

          90% of people would be fine with it too, maybe more. Unfortunately, it would be VERY easy to catch someone in a very bad state, and make it even worse. Without the context of what sort of person they are, and what they are currently in for, it’s FAR more likely to run into someone who wouldn’t see the funny side.

          Don’t get me wrong, it could be hilarious. E.g. the guy who did the same at a nursing home, where he also lived. The heart attack induced was just an unfortunate outcome that put it in the news.

    • Tetragrade@leminal.spaceEnglish
      6·
      9 hours 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.

    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      21 hours 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.

    • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      We also have the very catch all of “disturbing the peace”. Some friends of mine got done with that because the police had been called despite no actual crime being committed. They were eventually “bound over” for a year which is basically a deferred fine to encourage you not to do anything that attracts the police’s attention.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      20 hours 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).

      • mobyduck648@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        subdividing houses to the point where they become ‘overpestered’

        Definitely not illegal any more given the number of downright exploitive HMOs in British cities!