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Here we go again Woman arrested for sitting on a bench.

394 replies

MercyBooth · 10/01/2021 00:53

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9130133/Police-told-fine-Covid-rule-breakers-just-ONE-verbal-warning.html

OP posts:
dogsaremypeople · 10/01/2021 15:43

She wasn't just sitting on a bench, this was in Bournemouth and these people had traveled from Southampton to participate in a protest! They then dispersed into smaller groups and was pretending to sit at a bench!

Wildswim · 10/01/2021 15:43

I was out exercising today, within walking distance from home. I started to feel lightheaded and dizzy so I sat on a bench. If police had told me right then to get up and go I couldn't have done it.

This is getting silly.

And yes, women are being targeted.

Nishky · 10/01/2021 15:44

@TrustTheGeneGenie no you said you don’t have to give details unless you are breaking the law.

lockeddownandcrazy · 10/01/2021 15:44

@NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace

You don't have to give your details unless you're breaking a law.

That is totally incorrect. People who don’t know the law should not try to quote it.

No, it isn't. You're not obliged to give your name to the police unless they suspect you of an offence and advise you of this. If they're just being nosey, you can decline to give your name and simply doing so does not give the police the power to arrest you.

But why would you not? I'd just get up, give details if they wanted them, and leave. Why such a stupid over reaction?
Bollss · 10/01/2021 15:45

[quote Nishky]@TrustTheGeneGenie no you said you don’t have to give details unless you are breaking the law.[/quote]
Yes, and after that I said ok, you don't have to give them at all. You said that was wrong.

ElfIsAnAss · 10/01/2021 15:47

Why TF are shops not required to get much tougher on this?

Because staff are getting verbally abused and physically assaulted for doing so. We tried it at the start of lockdown then told to stop. I don't get paid enough to risk getting punched in the face (which has happened at one of our other branches). I personally have been threatened.

Beautifulbonnie · 10/01/2021 15:47

I think she was the woman who wouldn’t give her details

In which case she’d be arrested for perverting the course of justice

Not sitting in a bench.

alltheadrenalin · 10/01/2021 15:47

Not sure what it is about STAY AT HOME some people don’t get.

^^ people are allowed out to exercise. I'll argue all day long for people to take care of their mental health. Hill I'm prepared to die on.

Livelovebehappy · 10/01/2021 15:48

dogsaremypeople exactly. The media tend to pick up bits of a story so you miss the full context. The problem is when they do this it changes the whole story and provokes the sort of reaction we’re getting on this thread. There’s often backstory to these events and it’s not as it seems on the surface.

Bollss · 10/01/2021 15:48

@Beautifulbonnie

I think she was the woman who wouldn’t give her details

In which case she’d be arrested for perverting the course of justice

Not sitting in a bench.

Nope.
Lovemusic33 · 10/01/2021 15:49

@Wildswim

I was out exercising today, within walking distance from home. I started to feel lightheaded and dizzy so I sat on a bench. If police had told me right then to get up and go I couldn't have done it.

This is getting silly.

And yes, women are being targeted.

She wasn’t just someone that had sat down for a test, read the thread. She was a part of a protest where people arrived individually, wondered around and then planned to come together to protest lockdown. I’m sure the police would not arrest someone who had sat down because they were feeling lightheaded.
itsgettingweird · 10/01/2021 15:50

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Not sure what it is about STAY AT HOME some people don’t get

I don't get what people don't get about the fact exercise is allowed.

Or what they don't get about travelling miles to take part in an anti covid protest and be sitting on a bench being aggressive and refusing to live until the police prove its real

Isnt local

Or

Exercise

Nishky · 10/01/2021 15:51

So you agree that the original statement I objected to is incorrect.

Bollss · 10/01/2021 15:51

Yeah, but saying "what don't you understand about stay at home" suggest people should never leave home, when in fact, they are allowed.

Bollss · 10/01/2021 15:52

@Nishky

So you agree that the original statement I objected to is incorrect.
Yes I've said that like three times now?

My point is , she should not have been arrested for not giving her details because you do not have to. Which you said, is wrong.

itsgettingweird · 10/01/2021 15:52

@Wildswim

I was out exercising today, within walking distance from home. I started to feel lightheaded and dizzy so I sat on a bench. If police had told me right then to get up and go I couldn't have done it.

This is getting silly.

And yes, women are being targeted.

As you hadn't travelled 30 miles to take part in an anti COVID protest and weren't sitting miles from your home on a bench after being dispersed and probably wouldn't start challenging police to prove covid was real if they spoke to you - I think you'll be fine.
GabsAlot · 10/01/2021 15:57

the same thing happened last april wonder if its same woman again-sat down on the bench p[olice asked what her reasons was

she was waiting to watch the sunset then argued about her rights and woildnt give her details

just annoying really all she had to do was say im on my way and leave

hoodathunkit · 10/01/2021 15:57

She wasn't just sitting on a bench, this was in Bournemouth and these people had traveled from Southampton to participate in a protest! They then dispersed into smaller groups and was pretending to sit at a bench!

Damn you and your obsession with facts and reality.

Wink

The whole discourse that these conspiracy theorists promote is "you are being robbed".

It turns up in the "Stop the Steal" US protests (election was stolen from Trump)
It turns up in the "Save out Children" protests (social services are stealing children)
It turned up in the Brexit discourses (they come over here and take our benefits and housing)
It turns up in the sex cults that so many of these people are involved with (the blissful, multi-orgasmic lifethat is your birthright has been stolen by oppressive society)
It turns up in anti-vaxx discourses (big pharma is stealing your children's health, injecting you with microchips so they can steal your life)
anti-mask discourses (your liberty and freedoms are being stolen)
It turned up in propaganda during the Holocaust and in genocides since the beginning of time

I suspect that there is some element deep in the human unconscious that is fundamentally paranoid and fears being stolen from.

We are in the middle of a deadly pandemic. Is it too much to ask that people behave like grown ups reinquish some freedoms for the greater good?

Even ants know to self idolate to protect other ants when they are infected with pathogens.

Surely thousands of years of evolution should have enabled us to act in a mature and decent manner?

Joeblack066 · 10/01/2021 16:01

Good. She was shouting that she doesn’t believe the virus is real, and breaking the rules. Meanwhile NHS staff, including my son and his gf, go out every day risking their lives.

Nishky · 10/01/2021 16:02

@TrustTheGeneGenie at no point did I comment on the case in the op

ArbonneLife · 10/01/2021 16:02

I saw a longer clip. They’d already given the lady a warning in the town centre earlier. She’d apparently been out and around all day. Poor journalism has a responsibility to stop winding the general public up. Take care all x

womaninatightspot · 10/01/2021 16:02

@feellikeanalien

For the first time ever since this began I am now feeling apprehensive about going shopping tomorrow.

I live rurally and the nearest supermarket where I can get everything I need is 20 miles away. I have tried to do an online order but cannot get a slot for at least a week.

If I am stopped by the police will they fine me for being outside my local area? I am afraid that I have lost a lot of faith in the ability of the police to engage in critical thinking. I used to be pretty supportive of the police but this pandemic and other situations which have arisen recently have really knocked my confidence in them.

I am usually pretty laid back and realise that the media likes to whip things up which is why I find the way I am feeling quite disturbing.

I live 23 miles away from the nearest big supermarket. I've been stopped twice once way back in April and once over New Years. Both times when heading back up the A9. The police have been fine, asked for ID and why I was there. Been to Tescos to pick up the click and collect order is sufficient excuse. I drive a camper van though so I think I'm more likely to get a random stop to prevent people heading up to the highlands.

They did breathalyse me at new years which made me Hmm hoping they steralise the machine pre/post use!

Beautifulbonnie · 10/01/2021 16:03

@TrustTheGeneGenie

She’d travelled from Bournemouth. To go to a protest

They tried to get her details under the s24PACE. Which she refused. So they arrested her.

Bollss · 10/01/2021 16:04

[quote Nishky]@TrustTheGeneGenie at no point did I comment on the case in the op[/quote]
I'm not saying you did.

Beautifulbonnie · 10/01/2021 16:04

Travelled from Southampton.