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General => Random Chat => Topic started by: doylebros on November 24, 2013, 10:03:13 am

Title: Car Meets - Could be a thing of the past - new police powers!
Post by: doylebros on November 24, 2013, 10:03:13 am

This is interesting from many angles!

http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/2013/07/24/the-birth-of-a-police-state-uk-police-to-be-granted-sweeping-new-powers/
Title: Re: Car Meets - Could be a thing of the past - new police powers!
Post by: woahnowboys on November 24, 2013, 10:08:05 am
...is this a joke? :confused:
Title: Re: Car Meets - Could be a thing of the past - new police powers!
Post by: Hedge on November 24, 2013, 12:08:33 pm
All we need to do is elect a leader of the country called Adolf and we'll be sorted.  :stupid:
Title: Re: Car Meets - Could be a thing of the past - new police powers!
Post by: MC71 on November 24, 2013, 12:37:14 pm
WTF?

Not sure what to make of this, god help us......

The Bill introduces Injunctions to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance (IPNAS) to replace ABSO’S. Almost no one will be sad to say goodbye to ASBO’s.  The orders, designed to allow police to tackle anti-social behaviour, simply became a means of criminalising youthful indiscretion – and eventually a means of criminalising anything people found annoying.  Some of the bizarre abuses of this power include:

Stuart Hunt of Loch Ness brought to court 100 times since 2007 for breaching an ASBO preventing him from laughing, staring or slow hand clapping.

Homeless, alcoholic and mentally ill Michael Gilligan given a 99 year ASBO rather than the welfare support that might have made a difference

A profoundly deaf 17 year old girl given an ASBO and a jail sentence for spitting in the street

A 13 year old banned from using the word ‘grass’ in England or Wales

Manchester Council applied an ASBO to prevent a mobile soup kitchen from feeding the homeless

Councils placing ASBOs on homeless people resulting in prison sentences for begging ‘earnestly and humbly’

An 87 year old man was given an ASBO threatening a prison sentence if he was sarcastic to his neighbours.
Title: Re: Car Meets - Could be a thing of the past - new police powers!
Post by: xjay1337 on November 24, 2013, 07:48:32 pm
Woah now guys
Before getting your knickers in a twist this hasn't been made law. It's just a draft proposal. From briefly skimming it, the article is written by some junkie-lunatic.


I'm not overly bothered anyway. Most of the meets I go to, we have full permission to be there from the owners of the places we meet, for example at Krispy Kreme they give us free doughtnuts each month!!
Title: Re: Car Meets - Could be a thing of the past - new police powers!
Post by: Wooosh on November 24, 2013, 08:04:28 pm
Free Krispy Kreme's? Where is this. :happy2:
Title: Re: Car Meets - Could be a thing of the past - new police powers!
Post by: doylebros on November 24, 2013, 08:12:14 pm
This means they write the rules and end up with the Bat & Ball - game over if it's suits the rule writer! :jumping: