>>>Why do people get arrested for DUI or loitering ? If somebody is DUI, take his keys away and he can pick it
>>>up next morning or 24H later, and who is victimized by loitering ?
>>>What am I missing ?
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>>The Glory of Loitering
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>nice piece - still how can the land of the free have no freedom to spend it in the open.
>And how to use the free speech back in the times before phone and twitter,
>if you could be packed away for loitering (no need for noise pollution...)?
>If you are in a park do you loiter or is sunbathing a valid activity ?

I guess being in a park has the obvious purpose of being in a park, so that would count as a reason - you are doing it in the space designated for that (where else can you be in a park but in a park?). It seems that as long as you stand and talk in any space that isn't designated for that, you may be suspect. I wonder what happens when three guys set to meet at the corner at 18:00, and the third guy is twenty minutes late and they decide to wait for him. Does "waiting for a friend" count as a legal purpose?

I guess we'd have to ask the natives. For all those years there it didn't come up as a subject too often, so I'm short on details.