Web designer arrested for 'stealing' food from dustbins

[Tim W]

Unbelievable:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/three-charged-vagrancy-act-food-skip-iceland

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Tim W:

Unbelievable:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/three-charged-vagrancy-act-food-skip-iceland

"...CPS responded this month that the case would go ahead, because "we
feel there is significant public interest in prosecuting these three
individuals"."

I have to wonder if:

- The guys doing it arranged to have themselves reported and,
therefore, arrested

- The prosecutor's "significant public interest" is in helping
the "perpetrators" publicize the issue of food waste.


I'm probably way off base on the second one... but I'm still
wondering about the first.

 

[Martin Edwards]

Unbelievable:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/three-charged-vagrancy-act-food-skip-iceland

Iceland has a tiny population and hardly any crime. Perhaps the
authorities were simply bored.

 

[Martin Edwards]

LOL!

(But are you making a joke, or didn't you understand the event took place
in London? ;-) )

Peccavi, I didn't. I forgot that Iceland is a chain store selling
frozen food. :-(

 

[jfaerber172]

Unbelievable:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/three-charged-vagrancy-act-food-skip-iceland

the other day they dropped it:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/29/prosecutors-drop-case-men-food-iceland-bins