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09-01-2004, 07:57 PM
Telegraph article here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/31/ublair.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/08/31/ixportaltop.html)
So whats the deal with these? I see they’ve been out since 1999. My first thought was it sounded really Orwellian. “You do not conform to typical behaviour so we will arrest you.”
The two cases cited in the article don’t seem like the best examples that could have been made and I really can’t think of a time I would have invoked such a thing against someone else. My upstairs neighbors are noisy sometimes but I wouldn’t want them arrested over it.
I mean, if someone is hassling you or being loud after 10pm, can’t you all call the police to have them quiet things down? Is this another wacky Brit thing like TV permits?
So whats the deal with these? I see they’ve been out since 1999. My first thought was it sounded really Orwellian. “You do not conform to typical behaviour so we will arrest you.”
The two cases cited in the article don’t seem like the best examples that could have been made and I really can’t think of a time I would have invoked such a thing against someone else. My upstairs neighbors are noisy sometimes but I wouldn’t want them arrested over it.
I mean, if someone is hassling you or being loud after 10pm, can’t you all call the police to have them quiet things down? Is this another wacky Brit thing like TV permits?