Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients
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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.
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".
"Yeah right, you said that a week ago."
Hey no spawn camping
God forbid someone has a hobby....
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...
Harvesting souls with ma homies.
Cracking open a few cold ones on the hospital roof
"...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?
We also have the very catch all of "disturbing the peace". Some friends of mine got done with that because the police had been called despite no actual crime being committed. They were eventually "bound over" for a year which is basically a deferred fine to encourage you not to do anything that attracts the police's attention.
How is "because it was funny" not a reasonable excuse in this one instance?
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_nuisance
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).
A SUCCULENT GRIM REAPER COSTUME?!!
^HOW^ ^UNPROFESSIONAL.^
^SQUEAK.^
Please tell me this is a pTerry reference?
At first glance it is really funny. But of course the people who were genuinely affected are the victims. And nothing funny about it.
Reading the article I don't think the guy is actually 100 there. I believe he is struggling and just acting out - not that it is an excuse.
Not the nicest thing to do to any terminally ill patients or knife attack survivors.
*scythe attack
if I was coherent and the lights weren't off, I think would have laughed pretty hard
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.
St. Asaph is a place in North Wales, a nice place to visit.
I would hope a place named by smashing face to keyboard would be a nice place to visit
So black robes are illegal now?
Reminds me of Remi Gaillard, lol.
You mean the dude who stole his bits from Dom Jolly (Trigger Happy TV)?
what happened to this guy?
Hahaha what? If I were a patient, I’d be cracking up 😂
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!
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.
touches your nose
BOOP!
My hospital hovers around 100% year round. We were at 130% recently, that was bad. Very bad.
130%??? Are we talking like the stereotypical image of a collapsing country with patients laying in gurneys in the hallway?
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
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.
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!