Link: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hospital-grim-reaper-man-arrested-37511832

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/53374166

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God forbid someone has a hobby....

Oh! Whew! I was worried for a moment! Thishappened in the UK.

Perfectly fine to do this here in America. Actually most hospital rooms are empty. Ain't nobody got money to pay for our broken healthcare system!

Harvesting souls with ma homies.

^HOW^ ^UNPROFESSIONAL.^

Hahaha what? If I were a patient, I’d be cracking up 😂

He dressed up in a ‘Grim Reaper’-style outfit at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital in St Asaph, Denbighshire, and climbed onto the roof where he stared at staff and visitors.

Am I stroking out or is that just how the English do things?

If you mean the name, that's just how the Welsh do things.

While your sentiment is for sure in the right place, the inverse is the case right now; I don't know of a region that isn't floating at crisis levels for bed avaliablity (right now US hospitals are roughly 89% full, well over the predicted threshold for "shit starts collapsing" at 85%). It's really, really bad out there.

"...pleaded guilty to causing a nuisance without reasonable excuse"

thats a crime?
And what would constitute a reasonable excuse?

hey, can we arrest trump for that if he comes back to the uk?

Please tell me this is a pTerry reference?

ɪ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴍᴜʀᴅᴇʀ ᴀ ᴄᴜʀʀʏ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ɴᴏᴡ

My hospital hovers around 100% year round. We were at 130% recently, that was bad. Very bad.

Mate, he didn't have his nuisance license. As punishment he will now be forced to observe the 3pm tea alarm with a glass of luke warm water.

St. Asaph is a place in North Wales, a nice place to visit.

^SQUEAK.^

Cracking open a few cold ones on the hospital roof

what happened to this guy?

You mean the dude who stole his bits from Dom Jolly (Trigger Happy TV)?

130%??? Are we talking like the stereotypical image of a collapsing country with patients laying in gurneys in the hallway?

Hey it could be worse, you could be at one of the psych hospitals! Poor fuckers are running at 400%+ capacity on a good day. They're so overtaxed they're turfing people from forensic beds, and anyone that isnt a critical emergent case is never getting admitted. It's so much fun!

"...pleaded guilty to causing a nuisance without reasonable excuse"

thats a crime?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_nuisance

The nuisance action began in twelfth century England as a criminal writ, belonging only to the Crown. It was used in cases that involved encroachments upon the King's land or the blocking of public roads or waterways. The King sought to punish these criminal infringements, commonly known as "purprestures", through criminal proceedings. Over time, activities prosecuted as public nuisances included everything from embezzling public funds to having a tiger pen next to a highway, from assisting a homicidal maniac to escape to placing a mutilated corpse on a doorstep, and from selling rotten meat to "subdividing houses to the point where they become 'overpestered' with the poor". As these examples demonstrate, early authority to commence public nuisance actions was derived from the sovereign's "police power".[10]

Spencer (1989 at 59) describes the offence as "a rag-bag of odds and ends which we should nowadays call 'public welfare offences'".[11] But the common feature of the crime is that members of the public suffer a common injury through interference with rights which they enjoy as citizens. The modern definition is found in paras 31–40 Archbold (2005):

A person is guilty of a public nuisance (also known as common nuisance), who (a) does an act not warranted by law, or (b) omits to discharge a legal duty, if the effect of the act or omission is to endanger the life, health, property, morals, or comfort of the public, or to obstruct the public in the exercise or enjoyment of rights common to all Her Majesty's subjects.[12]

can we arrest trump for that if he comes back to the uk?

I'm pretty sure that national leaders don't normally visit countries unless they are extended diplomatic immunity, so probably not.

EDIT: Hmm. Though...this says that it was abolished as a crime in England and Wales four years ago. There's still the tort, but the way The Mirror described it, he was "fined", and I think that you only get fined in criminal law, not civil law (in civil law, the analog would be called paying punitive damages, at least here in the US).

Yes. This is in a major city in Colorado, we're not a small hospital nor are we in a rural place. There's no excuse

A SUCCULENT GRIM REAPER COSTUME?!!

How is "because it was funny" not a reasonable excuse in this one instance?

if I was coherent and the lights weren't off, I think would have laughed pretty hard

I'm very tall and one time I was in my 97 year old grandmother's room because I'd had to use her bathroom and she was half awake and said, "No! Go away!" and I was like, damn, ok. But I think she thought I was Death! :/

She was the best. So close to MLK during the Dream speech that she sat on the steps and couldn't see him. Black Panthers would salute her white self. The best. I asked her what the most impactful technology she'd seen in her lifetime was and she said, "the next one." So cool. There's a picture of her and her crew with Jimmy Carter and she's standing in front of him. What a badass.

Someone has to do this around the US capitol buildings.

Hey no spawn camping

Someone needs to dress as the grim reaper and rock up to whatever hospital Mitch McConnell is staying at. When security tries to turn him away, he can simply say, "I'm here to collect Mitch McConnell".

I would hope a place named by smashing face to keyboard would be a nice place to visit

"Yeah right, you said that a week ago."

Aren't the rural hospitals all heading towards closure due to changes in medicare/medicaid funding? I'm pretty sure you're just in the new normal.

That's wild! I'm sorry that you have to deal with that.

Wait, if Ole Grim is being detained, then who is going to harvest the souls of dying mortals? Does this mean we won't be able to die, or that our souls will simply be trapped somewhere between the realms of the living and the dead? Hmm...

touches your nose

BOOP!

... can't touch this.

"I am here for one. I can take many."

People can't agree on what funny is.

If Terry Pratchett is to be believed, then it's zombies and ghosts.

hospitals is where death hangs out, as non-coporeal entity.

Likely if he had done it to people he knew, and by extension that this particular prank wouldn't excessively affect them negatively.

Pranking your friends in public, poor taste, but possibly acceptable. Pranking random members of the public, at what could be the worst time of their life...

I expect it would be for things like mental health, cultural / religious, or practical reasons i.e. shouting really loud can land you an ASBO if you do it for no reason, but not if it's part of psychotic episode, call to prayer, or an attempt to alert people to danger.

I don’t necessarily condone what he did, but to be fair if I was in hospital with some deadly disease I’d find someone going about dressed as the Grim Reaper hilarious. I once found a lot of amusement when I was in A&E with an allergic reaction to a horsefly bite, there was a funeral directors on the ad carousel in the waiting room. Talk about targeted advertising!

subdividing houses to the point where they become ‘overpestered’

Definitely not illegal any more given the number of downright exploitive HMOs in British cities!

Welsh has its own alphabet that’s different from the English one, the spelling is actually a bit more sane than English. English would sound bloody ridiculous too if you used the Welsh alphabet to speak it as well.

Is that why McConnel has not been declared dead yet???

90% of people would be fine with it too, maybe more. Unfortunately, it would be VERY easy to catch someone in a very bad state, and make it even worse. Without the context of what sort of person they are, and what they are currently in for, it's FAR more likely to run into someone who wouldn't see the funny side.

Don't get me wrong, it could be hilarious. E.g. the guy who did the same at a nursing home, where he also lived. The heart attack induced was just an unfortunate outcome that put it in the news.

If Piers Anthony is to be believed, this will only affect people with balanced souls, but everyone else should be fine. (Well, dead)

Shut up! Shut up you American. You always talk, you

Americans, you talk and you talk and say ‘Let me tell

you something’ and ‘I just wanna say this’, Well you’re

dead now, so shut up.

English isn't meant for the roman alphabet, but Welsh is even worse for it. Honestly a lot of languages needed a Sequoyah rather than just borrowing an alphabet from whomever conquered them