Re: Exclusive: Mum cleared of littering after dropping a sausage roll

Paul Hyett wrote:
|| On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 at 08:42:30, Webmanager_CritEst
|| <webmanager@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in uk.legal :
||
||| Exclusive: Mum cleared of littering after dropping a sausage roll
|||
||| Two council enforcement officers claimed they had seen Sarah drop a
||| paper bag containing the sausage roll on April 21.
|||
||| She said she did not let go of the bag but that her daughter Chloe,
||| four, dropped a bit of the roll, which was then immediately eaten by
||| pigeons.
|||
||| Sarah was threatened with arrest unless she gave the officials her
||| name and address.
||
|| Do they actually *have* that power, or were they bullshitting?

They don't have the power of arrest - they would probably say they
threatened to have her arrested (by a constable) if she didn't give the
details. If they actually were 'bullshitting' that they could arrest her,
that would be an offence in itself.

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Rob


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