[OSM-talk] some mapping questions

OJW streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk
Sun Jul 23 17:43:46 BST 2006


On Sunday 23 July 2006 17:33, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> on a footpath not too far from here there's a notice reminding users of a
> footpath that it's apparently not allowed, under the Highways Act 1749 or
> somesuch, to "linger" on a footpath.
> Cue images of police officers carting people off for admiring the view....

A television programme called "Pie in the Sky" had a good commentary on that, 
when the policeman told a group of OAP ramblers to "stop blocking the 
footpath or he'd arrest them for holding an illegal rave".  

Such is the weirdness of the criminal justice act (which was new at the time)






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