Male Stripper In Britain Prosecuted For Carrying Night Stick
Because a billy club is an “offensive weapon.”
Three judges have ruled that a male stripper who dresses as a policeman can use a real truncheon in his act.
Stuart Kennedy, a student whose stage name is Sgt Eros, was arrested on his way to an engagement in Aberdeen by two female police officers.
They watched his performance in a city pub to confirm his explanation for wearing a police uniform before he was charged with carrying an offensive weapon.
A sheriff threw out the charge at a lower court amid widespread criticism of the Crown for pursuing the case, but prosecutors decided to appeal against the ruling.
In America we battle over gun control. In Great Britain they’re battling over whether or not it’s allowable for citizens to even carry a stick that could possibly be used to hit someone else.
What’s next? Prosecutions for unlawful possession of a fork? After all, those tines are pretty sharp.
On a related note, here’s a line from the British paper’s article on this story that you’d never seen in an American publication:
At the Court of Appeal in Edinburgh, it was suggested that if only his truncheon had been floppy, he could have avoided any trouble with the law.
Most of the time I’m pretty glad I’m not British.
