• mechoman444@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 hours ago

    On one hand. This is top tier comedy.

    On the other… I watched my dad die from cancer and can see how some people might take this the wrong way. I know I would not have taken this lightly if it happened to me.

  • Pirate2377@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    I can understand this one tbh. If someone was having heart issues and saw this, then he would have been directly responsible if they died of a heart attack. It’s funny, but I understand that he could have accidentally caused real harm. So I’d be for giving him a warning assuming he didn’t actually have malice

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      15 hours ago

      Trespassing, disturbing the peace, criminal mischief, there’s a lot of laws that can cover this one and that’s before you even start talking about ‘creative’ police and DAs.

        • tmyakal@infosec.pub
          5·
          12 hours ago

          This happened in Wales, so it would be real weird to get a payout in dollars.

          But if this did happen in America, almost every charge OP listed would be valid, and this guy would have a snowball’s chance in Hell of getting half a million for being arrested.

          Currently only 5% of arrests go to trial. Most are resolved in plea deals, which is what almost any lawyer or public defender would tell this guy to angle for. Better to pay a fine and do some community service than pay more to a lawyer for a worse outcome in front of a jury.

          And to be clear, if this guy did play the longshot and try to get a trial, it’d be very difficult to win. The prosecutor would need to convince a jury that scaring the shit out of sick people is a bad thing. The defense is what? That it’s not that bad? Or that this guy mixed up his candystriper outfit with his black robe, whoopsie? I don’t think Atticus Finch himself could turn that jury.

          The American legal system is already heavily stacked to crush innocent people. Imagining that there’s some sort of Uno Reverse card for someone maliciously intimidating sick people is delusional.

            • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              7 hours ago

              You can only be hit for trespassing on publicly accessible private property if you’ve been told to vacate and refused. Basically, if no one told him to leave, its not trespassing.

            • tmyakal@infosec.pub
              1·
              6 hours ago

              I love your confidence, but people have been charged with both criminal mischief and disturbing the peace for much less flagrant actions in the past. Given the nature of the crime, either charge is conceivably applicable. But that’s hardly relevant, because this gentleman literally climbed the building; he wasn’t standing on a public sidewalk in view of a hospital.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
        8·
        14 hours ago

        It’s all fun and games until you’re the one standing in the hospital room with your dying 8yo niece, wondering how the universe can be so cruel.

        But yeah, hilarious. Good use of time. Shame they arrested a literal god of comedy.