>>>>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 ?
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>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?
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>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.

Recently some shops here in the UK where installing high frequency sound devices that teenagers could hear to deter them from loitering outside the shops.

http://www.movingsoundtech.com/

A classic case of addressing a problem by sending it somewhere else.