Pursuing Holiness

Sgt. Eros, a male stripper, had an unlawful accessory for his outfit. Unfortunately it wasn’t just the fashion police who were after him.

Stuart Kennedy, 25, whose stage name is Sgt Eros, was detained by two female officers on his way to a job in Aberdeen.

Amusingly, the officers “watched his act to verify his claim that he was a stripper and then arrested him for carrying an offensive weapon.” Oh, they had to verify his claim.  You betcha.

Mr Kennedy, a genetics student from Aberdeen, was charged with having offensive weapons in public “without lawful authority or reasonable excuse”.

Was his dancing so bad that his story was not believable?  Nope, that wasn’t it.  It’s that even as part of a costume, you can’t carry a large, rigid stick in the United Kingdom.  You might put somebody’s eye out or something.  Gun control is evidently achieved - nobody but cops and criminals can get them - and evidently the Mary Poppins of Nanny States has sufficiently outlawed knives because they’ve now moved on to large sticks.

What next, a requirement to keep your hand open because a fist is potentially dangerous?  Chain gangs will be picking up large rocks to confiscate them for the government, in case anyone is moved to throw one.  (Belfast, anyone?)  Really large women’s handbags, if sufficiently weighted, can do some damage if you have adequate room to swing them.  And umbrellas - long, pointy metal things… better get that on the list too.   And you know, if you yell loud enough, you can give someone a headache.

It’s something to consider.

h/t Male Stripper In Britain Prosecuted For Carrying Night Stick - Say Anything

h/t to Of Arms and the Law for the knife article.

written by Laura