There's been a sticker....

[fatblackcatspaw]

for IWD Scottish women have been stickering and beribboning across the land - see twitter. All the way to John O Groats #womenwontwheesht

Is that for real, an MSP called the police over a couple of stickers & a ribbon?

Prosecutions for stickering are pretty common, they are a pain to remove and can sometimes damage surfaces/paintwork etc. Hardly the crime of the century, small fine usually, but it's not suprising she called the police really, I expect plenty of people here would if they found them stuck on their front door.

JJ where have you BEEN???

D'ya miss me?

I expect people here, if they found a sticker they didn't agree with on their door would roll their eyes, maybe take a photo, and peel it off themselves. Not call the police. They don't have enough time to adequately address serious issues such as DV so I wouldn't dream of wasting their time over a sticker.
They weren't in any way violent, merely asserting women's right to have rights.

JJ I was kind of worried that you had stumbled across some suffragette ribbons and had to take a long lie down or summat... but obs you are now recovered?

More go Scotland 💪and the yarn bomber

@ErrolTheDragon

I expect people here, if they found a sticker they didn't agree with on their door would roll their eyes, maybe take a photo, and peel it off themselves. Not call the police. They don't have enough time to adequately address serious issues such as DV so I wouldn't dream of wasting their time over a sticker. They weren't in any way violent, merely asserting women's right to have rights.

You often can't just peel them off, the glue generally stays behind leaving a sticky residue, or they take the varnish/paintwork off with them.

I think most people would be pretty pissed off, especially if it was something they felt targetted them rather than just an advert for a band or something. There's a potential public order charge there as well, if someone who knew of your views stuck a load of trans women are women stickers on your car or front door then you might reasonably feel alarmed, harassed or distressed by it - that would ramp up the charge significantly. Damaging other people's property is a crime, as is damaging public property and plenty of 'stickerers' (of which i was one in my more activisty days) have been convicted of criminal damage.

Then we get this

The exact nature of the items in question has already been discussed upthread.

Honestly cant imagine calling the police over a sticker.
If it left glue behind a wet cloth would lift it, there's no evidence to suggest these stickers even did that.
Im sure the police have got better things to do, wasting police time is a crime.

@littlbrowndog

Then we get this

Easier to get graffiti done with a permanent markers off glass than a sticker, one wipe with solvent will take it off. There a difference (legally) as well between damaging something generic like a bus shelter and someone's home/office/business.

@JosieJarker

Honestly cant imagine calling the police over a sticker. If it left glue behind a wet cloth would lift it, there's no evidence to suggest these stickers even did that. Im sure the police have got better things to do, wasting police time is a crime.

Absolutely soaking it and leaving it can work, but you might need to scrub which could damage the surface. White spirit works better if you soak it and leave it, but again it's not suitable to be used on some paints or varnshes because it will melt them too.

By your own argument graffiti could be a public order offence.
How do you feel about dead rats jj?
Or smoke bombs metres away from Grenfell tower?
Or effigies of actual women?

the glue generally stays behind leaving a sticky residue

Classic. 😂

The stickers looked like they were on glass and a hand rail, so again by your own argument, there would be no varnish tp remove from a window.
Same work as wiping off marker graffiti, assuming these are in fact super duper extra sticky stickers.

Hmm - are housekeeping tips considered to be derailing a thread as recipe advice is?

Clearly haberdashery and wee dog blankets are the best approach.

Anyone got a recipe for pretzels?

Goof-off....

It removes sticky residue without rubbing.

@JosieJarker

By your own argument graffiti could be a public order offence. How do you feel about dead rats jj? Or smoke bombs metres away from Grenfell tower? Or effigies of actual women?

Graffiti deliberately targetting an individual's property or workplace would absolutely potentially be a public order offence, but not graffiti on a lampost or bridge unless it mentioned someone by name perhaps.

They weren't smoke bombs btw they were protest flares which are routinely used at protests and sports events, but it was disrespectful to use them so near Greenfell and they were right to apologise. I'm aware of a couple of ex mining villages that routinely burn an effigy of Thatcher on Bonfire Night and making effigies of politicians is pretty common, especially in Spain, but it's not something I would choose to do. I thought the dead rat thing was horrible, nothing like that has happened here, but just because a trans person in Canade might have done something bad it doesn't mean that anything short of that suddenly becomes okay. That's not how things work, legally or morally.

@JosieJarker

The stickers looked like they were on glass and a hand rail, so again by your own argument, there would be no varnish tp remove from a window. Same work as wiping off marker graffiti, assuming these are in fact super duper extra sticky stickers.

No,you need to leave the white spirit for a few minutes, it wont just come off, and then you might still have to pick at it. I thought this was a parenting forum ffs, surely I can't be the only one whose young kid went terrorist when they got hold of some stickers and had to spend ages cleaning them off the furniture.

@Lordamighty

Goof-off....

It removes sticky residue without rubbing.

£15 a can on ebay!!

None of the stickers my kids used ever needed white stirits.
Lamposts are fine to sticker?
Thats good to know. Lots of lamposts round here.

Somebody obviously wasn't in Scotland during Referendum when we were " Sticker Central." Also must be a great relief to Kirsty and Christina that they are not in Edinburgh where their staff would be terrorised by all the Fringe adverts publicising Shakespeare, comedies and political satire shows. Oh wait Mr Yousaf will have them all banged up in jail for Hate Speech. Problem solved.

@JosieJarker

None of the stickers my kids used ever needed white stirits. Lamposts are fine to sticker? Thats good to know. Lots of lamposts round here.

Well it's still criminal damage, you'll get nicked if a copper sees you doing it so probably an on the spot fine if you're lucky but no public order charge .