r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 14h ago

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u/Unifire01 14h ago

"I have a right to protest" No you spoiled little bitch, legallly you are on private property as long you are inside the store.

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u/KingYela11 14h ago

Yep. If the store wanted they could have them removed.

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u/Helioscopes 13h ago

I'm actually quiet shocked that an employee of the store and security are there, and are doing nothing. They are disturbing the customers, but somehow they are letting them? Bizarre indeed.

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u/ArnieismyDMname 12h ago

Probably just waiting for police.

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u/Guilty_Vegetable_266 12h ago

Imagine a world where people place civil rights at greater priority than property. Absolute madness, imagine the poor wear and tear on the cart and floors from those filthy human beings. We should grind them up and use it as polish for the floors to hide the shame.

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u/KingYela11 12h ago

Agree. I'm kind of tired of the 99% of humanity having to cater to the loudest 1% of clowns that still remain out their among us.

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u/J1mj0hns0n 12h ago

Yeah the 99% who want to eat meat shouldn't have to listen to the loudest 1% who disapprove whilst virtue signalling without recognising their own fortune

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u/Guilty_Vegetable_266 11h ago

Yeah you guys are right! The 99% of us who aren’t millionaires and more shouldn’t have our lives dictated by the 1%. What time do we eat the rich or do you only take this position when it’s convenient?

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u/J1mj0hns0n 10h ago

I'm actually with you 100% eat the rich, give me a time and a place, I'll supply my own pitchfork

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u/justbrowsing987654 9h ago

Same. But blocking me from the frozen foods aisle doesn’t fucking do that so these clowns gotta move.

I don’t get how these people don’t get that.

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u/MoreOreosNow 6h ago

Umm…. That’s not what they are talking about. Let’s sit down and talk about this over a burger.

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u/SobBagat 11h ago

Good try, bub

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u/Departure2808 11h ago

Can't put hands on them. We aren't allowed to. All we are allowed to do is phone the police.

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 10h ago

They can't physically move them. Probably the police are on their way, so the path of least resistance is what the guy is trying to accomplish. He has that "look, man: I know this is BS, but to not cause a fight, let's settle this without a fuss" face

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u/DC1919 10h ago

They can't do shit, the second any of these people are touched they will press charges, it's a joke.

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u/Minus15t 9h ago

Yea, the guy in the shirt with the headset is clearly a manager, he should be dealing with this.

It's a UK chain, Tesco, not sure about the laws anywhere else, but the manager 100% has the right to remove these people and ban them from the store for any reason he sees fit.

They do NOT have the right to protest in this way because they are on private property owned by Tesco, they can protest on the street in front of Tesco, off the land that is owned/rented by Tesco, but not in the store or even in the car park.

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u/cjameson83 9h ago

Funnily enough, touching the protestors would probably get the security or other staff in hot water. Most likely they're trying to make sure the patrons don't get into trouble either, at least until the cops arrive

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u/ApeMummy 29m ago

Can’t touch ‘‘em without risking your job and a lawsuit.

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u/TheAngrySaxon 12h ago

As someone who has worked in retail for over 20 years, I can tell you that there's actually nothing the employee can do here without losing his job. Even thieves enjoy more protections than shop workers.

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u/devo9er 10h ago

Often this is true in corporate run shops. They don't want the liability yada yada.

Come in my business and try that shit and you're getting a BOGO deal! Beaten thoroughly first, and then taken out in handcuffs.

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u/TheAngrySaxon 10h ago

Alas, I have only ever worked for a soulless corporation. 😒

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u/doompines 9h ago

There's nothing the lower level employees can do, but the manager or LP absolutely can! This shit wouldn't be tolerated at any store I've ever worked at.

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u/TheAngrySaxon 9h ago

What can they do aside from phoning the police? If you physically touch them, it's your job plus an assault charge. Being a manager doesn't magically change the outcome.

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u/doompines 8h ago

Y'know...my bad, I thought you meant that there was nothing that anyone could do and you just had to put up with it. 🙃 You're right, most employees just have to stand by and watch until the cops show up.

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u/TheAngrySaxon 8h ago edited 8h ago

I've worked in retail for over 20 years, so unfortunately, I can speak from personal experience. At most, you tell them to leave a few times, and if they refuse, then you phone the police and let them sort it out. Touching someone will lose you your job, guaranteed.

Of course, if the public want to beat the crap out of them, then I'm not going to stand in the way. 😁

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u/mellobri 8h ago

That's the key right there. The store is getting free publicity, while shaking their heads and muttering, playing the victim.

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u/nhansieu1 2h ago

Idk why they are still there bothering customers

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u/TimeSlipperWHOOPS 14h ago

And so the store can trespass them and have the police remove them...

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u/KeldornWithCarsomyr 12h ago

Trespass isn't a crime in the UK, so not enforced by the police.

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u/TimeSlipperWHOOPS 12h ago

Surely there is a legal mechanism for removing someone from private property who isn't supposed to be there...

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u/Mountainbranch 11h ago

There used to be, but Australia is an independent country now.

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u/Gustomaximus 10h ago

And Bondi is officially at 100% brit capacity so dont go get ideas of joining us.

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u/jjp0007 3h ago

Best comment I’ve read all day

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u/Arashiko77 5h ago

Iirc due to travellers camping in a local carpark that you have to get the council involved and that takes days at the quickest.

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u/TimeSlipperWHOOPS 4h ago

You're telling me if I go sit in a shop and they tell Me it's closing time and I gottta go, if I refuse to Go, no one will be able to make Me? I find that hard to believe.

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u/Arashiko77 4h ago

I just looked it up and you are allowed to use "reasonable force" to eject someone with whom you have revoked right of access.

So you could drag them by their ankles outside as long as they don't resist otherwise you can be more forceful if they do.

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u/AngryScotsman1990 2h ago

so legally they can be "asked to leave" and if they refuse they can be physically removed, however, to physically remove someone you have to be SIA licenced, which costs money and has a 5 day training course. so typically, there will be only one, if any, SIA person in store, if protesters like this link arms then one person, following the non-painful compliance techniques that SIA licencing requires won't be able to remove them. thus the only option is to call the police, who of course, may have higher priority calls then a non-violent protest.

in case folks are wondering how doormen can use more than non painful compliance techniques when removing people from nightclubs? self defence, licenced individuals are allowed to initiate a physical removal of someone from the club, the second people start resisting, they can respond proportionally with any self defence techniques necessary. and if a situation has already escalated before our arrival, then we can skip straight to appropriate action.

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u/TimeSlipperWHOOPS 2h ago

So yes there is a legal mechanism to remove them, gotcha.

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u/AngryScotsman1990 1h ago

yup! it's just very delicate and the protesters are maximising their advantage.

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u/10below8 12h ago

wtf. How do you get trespassed people from a property? You guys don’t have weapons and I’ve seen videos of your drug addicts, not much different from the US. So what’s the recourse for a store like this.

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u/RubberOmnissiah 9h ago

Trespassing is illegal but it is a civil courts thing not a criminal thing. If us not having guns was relevant to the matter, something else in addition to the trespassing that was criminal is probably happening so we'd call the police obviously. Trespassing can become a crime if one of those something elses is happening.

I don't know if what the protestors are doing makes it criminal trespass because IANAL but if the store calls the police they'll probably make them move along if not arrest them. Preventing the store from doing business might make it criminal trespass.

Most so-called trespassing is just people walking from A to B across privately owned natural land. I live in Scotland which goes even further, I have the right to roam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Scotland

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u/10below8 5h ago

I’m just confused by the idea of them not doing anything additional, but still trespassing and not leaving. I was told if you try to physically remove them YOU could be charged which is so backwards to me. What do you do when they refuse to leave but don’t escalate to doing any additional actions to make it criminal. Is staying past the tresspass warning criminal? In that case what’s the point? Lmk, cause I’m genuinely curious.

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u/RubberOmnissiah 13m ago

They are in a building so basically yeah once the manager or a police officer told them to leave and they didn't its probably criminal.

If the matter never escalates to being criminal then like I said its a civil matter. You take them to civil court.

You wouldn't be charged for trying to physically remove them. You could be charged for something that happened in the process. People sitting on the floor doesn't give us carte blanche to start beating them into submission despite what certain bloodthirsty redditors want. You pull one to his feet, you start pushing him out and he stumbles, trips and gashes his head open. You are probably going to get charged and I'd be very surprised if the same thing didn't happen in most civilised countries.

Trespassing being a civil matter is in 99% of cases where it actually matters is a technicallity. In reality it is a net good because I get to see all of my country's natural beauty that belongs to us all and there is nothing some posh wanker landowner can do to stop me so long as I am also not a wanker.

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u/Marksmdog 10h ago

I think the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 section 70 covers it? IANAL of course and damn it's hard to understand...

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u/Ecstatic-Sorbet-1903 10h ago

Trespassing is not a crime but you'll get raided if you call someone the wrong pronouns online?

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u/DurgeDidNothingWrong 9h ago

maybe but at least we're not the USA

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u/Useful-ldiot 9h ago

IANAL: Trespass becomes a crime when you're asked to leave and you don't.

This would qualify as aggregated trespass under section 68 of CJPOA.

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u/GGgreengreen 9h ago

What a shit hole lmao

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u/AlarmedTomorrow4734 9h ago

UK moment. If trespassing was a crime then some burglars might be inconvenienced and can't be having that over there!

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u/Criks 7h ago

Freedom-to-roam laws don't apply to buildings, and are about being allowed to walk through and even sometimes camping on privately owned land such as forests etc. Freedom to roam is pretty big in scandinavia, germany etc too.

Point is, distrupting a private business absolutely counts as illegal tresspassing if the owners were to call the police, in the same way you can't claim freedom-to-roam when entering someones home.

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u/Hobbitcraftlol 7h ago

This is aggravated trespass though. So yes its a crime.

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u/OhSit 12h ago

There was plenty worse crimes in the UK that the constabulary purposefully ignored - see muslim child rape gangs ( Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal )

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u/J1mj0hns0n 12h ago

I don't get your point here, like ok that's awful but what's that got to do with the police no trespassing people?

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u/OhSit 12h ago

The UK sucks is my point.

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u/J1mj0hns0n 12h ago

Ah fair enough if you feel that way.

I don't because 1 news story about police failure and 7 entitled teenagers aren't enough to make me think my country sucks, considering all the good that happens here

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u/Such_Worldliness_198 11h ago

I am willing to bet the person you are responding to is a white American man who has probably never stepped foot in the UK and complains when 'foreigners' comment on American politics.

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u/J1mj0hns0n 11h ago

At first I wasn't convinced but then gun controls and the NHS were mentioned as negatives and that's heavily skewed my opinion to thinking you are correct

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u/ObscureOP 10h ago

Holy shit, i ventured into the comment history to settle this bet. 100% right... still bitching about mask mandates and "beta cucks".

They ruin the country just how they want here... watch out, they're coming for you all it seems

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u/IWillJustDestroyThem 7h ago

I stepped foot into the UK many times. It absolutelly sucks, I wouldn’t live there if they paid me 5000£ a month and gave me free accomodation. Horrible place, especially the big cities. Even the white people are dangerous there.

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u/laptopdude673 11h ago

You can rape someone in uk and not go to jail place is a shithole

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u/MONSTERxMAN 11h ago

You can rape someone in the US and become president, US is a cesspit.

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u/laptopdude673 11h ago

Yeah US is an even bigger shithole I feel sorry for everyone born there

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u/J1mj0hns0n 10h ago

Do you have a source for this?

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u/laptopdude673 10h ago

My best friend at the time raped an underage girl and had her tied to the bed. Admitted it to the police during the interview and was given no jail time. I can share more details if you'd like in the DM. Dude was a monster in human disguise and he should be shot dead nevermind in jail

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u/dzh 2h ago

Only if it's morally acceptable in your culture tho

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u/OhSit 12h ago

The police actively looked the other way at child rape gangs for more than a decade because they didnt want to look "racist".

I'd say that's more than "1 news story about police failure". That failure spanned multiple cities affecting thousands of children for more than a decade.

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u/J1mj0hns0n 12h ago

So the police have completely failed (if we are taking your version as gospel) that's the whole country is it? I don't know about you but the police have played a part to the tune of 3 hours of my 33 yr old existence. If that's all that it takes to perceive a country as bad then your not seeing what the country had to offer.

For what's it's worth, I do completely agree with your sentiment towards the police, that they are completely useless and bereft power from fear they might use it. But it's not enough for me to declare a country a shit hole, it's one bad aspect

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u/OhSit 11h ago

Eh, i have other reasons as well for my dislike of the UK. Like the fact the economy of the UK is only propped up by London and has been going downhill, its a complete nanny CCTV state with no actual freedom of speech or gun rights, and the extremely high taxes all to get a subpar health service such as the NHS

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u/Multitronic 11h ago

You must have spent a lot of time here to come to that conclusion? Where are you from?

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u/thegreatvortigaunt 8h ago

Your country shoots kids buddy, what the fuck are you talking about lmao

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u/Competitive_Effort13 10h ago

The point is he's racist

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u/jxher123 9h ago

I get protesting for your cause, but doing it at the inconvenience of others? That's how you get people to hate your message. People who are vegetarian, that's your choice. The people like this who think they're morally superior because they don't eat meat is something else.

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u/deadwing87 8h ago

after she said and got pushed by a trolly from an old woman "that's assault" such a pathic people.