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joe_bloggs* · ‎28-01-2014

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/three-charged-vagrancy-act-food-skip-iceland

"A man will stand trial next month after being caught taking some tomatoes, mushrooms and cheese from the dustbins behind a branch of Iceland."

"The case will require magistrates to scrutinise the phenomenon of "skipping" – taking discarded supermarket waste to cook and eat, and will highlight the issue of how much supermarket food is discarded, despite long campaigns to reduce the waste. It will also focus attention on a group of people taking radical steps to feed themselves as they struggle with the rising cost of living in London."

Initially arrested for burglary, the three men were charged under an obscure section of the 1824 Vagrancy Act, after being discovered in "an enclosed area, namely Iceland, for an unlawful purpose, namely stealing food".

Police returned the items to the Iceland store. The men were held in a police cell for 19 hours before being released, May said.

Lawyers for the three men have asked the Crown Prosecution Service to consider dropping the case, but the CPS responded this month that the case would go ahead, because "we feel there is significant public interest in prosecuting these three individuals".

In the public interest? Wonder how much all this is costing,suppose it will be up to a jury if it gets that far

We are many,They are few

fionajohnston · ‎30-01-2014

not sure how cee-dee's got added

cee-dee · ‎30-01-2014

Did ya know we have an edit button which is "live" for five minutes?

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

electric*mayhem*band · ‎30-01-2014

Live for how long ? Five minutes ? Five seconds would be nearer the mark. Or have you used a stop watch on it ?

kiss*my*pixel · ‎30-01-2014

But according to your link, this item wasn't "scavenged" from the skip. It was from the in-store shelf. Not sure of the connection to the OP? (I would insert an appropriate emoticon here, but there doesn't appear to be one for 'puzzled' So I'm just puzzled :0/?

Having bought an item from a supermarket to find it full of maggots, then personally, I'd haul the seller through the courts. If that's the way you find it in a skip, then you take your chances, and surely there would be no redress.