Pick up truck retaliation

[confettiinmyhair]

A bizarre local newspaper article. Yesterday a truck was pictured with a distasteful image of a kidnapped woman painted on the back. Today, a member of the public sees the truck and decides to vandalize it with pink hairspray. Do two wrongs make a right?
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/vandal-attack-on-pickup-with-kidnapped-woman-image-8026866

[Echo Valley 2-6809]

Good on her.

That letter from PC Savage is laughably shit.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Little wanker needs his windows smashing up

[Dr Trouser]

The driver is clearly a legend Gary edge lord, but hasn't broken any laws.

She has.

[Buelligan]

Owner's a horrible little cunt who has called something to him that, I'm sure if he'd given it any thought, he'd much prefer did not answer.

[Sebastian Cobb]

That letter from PC Savage is laughably shit.

I thought he got transferred to the SPG?

[Fambo Number Mive]

According to the linked story, Norfolk Police are investigating the truck and its image as a hate crime.

[Tony Tony Tony]

The driver is clearly a legend Gary edge lord, but hasn't broken any laws.

She has.

Then the law is an ass.

[bakabaka]

So if you had a picture (on the back of your van) of a naked man with his cock and balls cut off, just the bleeding stump left, that would be ok because it isn't showing genitalia?

Seems unlikely, but the logic seems to match.

[BlodwynPig]

The driver is clearly a legend Gary edge lord, but hasn't broken any laws.

She has.

Give over.

[BlodwynPig]

Ive got a picture of Dr Trouser bound and gagged in a gimp suit painted on my mobility scooter. Law says you cannot even tut in my direction. Propertttttyyyyyyyyy!!!!

[Icehaven]

Is the letter in that article written by a human? If I were her I'd just say I didn't understand what the fuck they were trying to say and get them to rewrite it a million times. You'd probably be long dead by the time they got it to anything like intelligible English.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

"This is not okay" is such a weak tag. Why not "Bollocks"?

[Sebastian Cobb]

What twat took it upon themselves to nark on the person doing it though?

[touchingcloth]

I sprayed "dude, not cool. Weak." on the inside of one of gas chambers at Auschwitz, and somehow this was seen as not OK?

[Better Midlands]

[mothman]

I think we all know what's coming next...

[Icehaven]

Won't pink hairspray just wash right off? Does that really count as criminal damage any more than doing a chalk drawing on the pavement?

Edit: Yes it even says in the article that the woman that did it used hairspray as she knew it would wipe off. The police need to arrest themselves for wasting police time on this.

[dissolute ocelot]

Won't pink hairspray just wash right off? Does that really count as criminal damage any more than doing a chalk drawing on the pavement?

Edit: Yes it even says in the article that the woman that did it used hairspray as she knew it would wipe off. The police need to arrest themselves for wasting police time on this.

Yeah how is this different from writing in dust or dirt on a van?

[Dex Sawash]

Do not fuck with Banksy's truck

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Do not fuck with Banksy's truck

# doo- dah, doo- dah #

[Ambient Sheep]

Won't pink hairspray just wash right off? Does that really count as criminal damage any more than doing a chalk drawing on the pavement?

Edit: Yes it even says in the article that the woman that did it used hairspray as she knew it would wipe off. The police need to arrest themselves for wasting police time on this.

I quite agree, but isn't it also the case that technically a chalk drawing on the pavement is criminal damage?

I seem to remember a shop owner last year got done (or was threatened to get done) for criminal damage because he stuck tape markers on the pavement outside his shop, two metres apart, to indicate CoViD-safe queuing distances.

[Buelligan]

I hope the owner has proof of age of the person pictured bound and gagged.  It would be dreadful if anyone thought he was a NONCE and not just a normal decent red-blooded man.

[Zetetic]

I quite agree, but isn't it also the case that technically a chalk drawing on the pavement is criminal damage?

Maybe.

CPS abandoned a stupid case in Bristol in 2009.

CoViD

Glad to see someone else keeping the faith on this orthographical arrangement.

[Icehaven]

I quite agree, but isn't it also the case that technically a chalk drawing on the pavement is criminal damage?

Possibly, but I've never heard of anyone being contacted by the police about it. I'm wondering if the police contacted her without realising (or being told) that it was hairspray and not paint.

I seem to remember a shop owner last year got done (or was threatened to get done) for criminal damage because he stuck tape markers on the pavement outside his shop, two metres apart, to indicate CoViD-safe queuing distances.

Eh? But pretty much all shops did that and still are? You'd be more likely to be done for not doing it.

[Buelligan]

It was this https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/police-officer-slammed-reprimanding-bakery-17997904 I think.

[St_Eddie]

[Gurke and Hare]

CPS page about criminal damage: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/criminal-damage

Meaning of Damage

Damage is not defined by the Act. It should be widely interpreted to include not only permanent or temporary physical harm, but also permanent or temporary impairment of value or usefulness - Morphitis v. Salmon [1990] Crim.L.R 48.

Any alteration to the physical nature of the property concerned may amount to damage within the meaning of the section. The courts have construed the term liberally and included damage that is not permanent such as smearing mud on the walls of a police cell. Where the interference amounts to an impairment of the value or usefulness of the property to the owner, then the necessary damage is established - R v Whiteley [1991] 93 CAR 25.

So this is temporary damage I suppose.

[bakabaka]

CPS page about criminal damage: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/criminal-damage

So this is temporary damage I suppose.

"temporary impairment of value or usefulness"
I'd be surprised if they could prove that it was less useful with pink hairspray on it. Similarly its value appears to be simply shock value, which is only slightly lessened by pink text over the top.

[JaDanketies]

the only reason I can imagine that the cops would waste time on someone spraying hairspray on a pick-up truck (when they "can't afford to" investigate burglaries) is because it's a copper's pick-up truck.