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Originally Posted by ZenGum

They should have charged her with ... loitering within tent.

First class pun! I approve!

More seriously:

Originally Posted by ZenGum

So, you're an Occupy protestor, the council have a law against pitching a tent in a park, and have sent in the police to remove tents. What do you do?



silly buggers.

Originally Posted by ZenGum

So back to the dressing as a tent to mock the cops bit.

Melbourne city council decided to make it illegal to wear a tent in a public park.
They sent in the cops.
Story with video here http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-0...tester/3715344

Instead of arresting the tentee, they stripped the tent off her. Leaving her in her undies in a public park.

(1) It is highly implausible that any Australian government could make a law regulating what you wear, even more so for a city council. I assume lawyers are circling already. Can anyone say "unconstitutional"?
(2) People who break the law are supposed to be arrested, not stripped. WTF?

this is what happened in Seattle when the same issue arose back in October:

Occupy Seattle Protestors to Outfox Police With Morphing 'JakPak' Jacket-Tents
By Curtis Cartier Fri., Oct. 7 2011 at 6:00 AM

Of all the small, local companies that could take an interest in the ongoing Occupy Seattle protests, Jim Rose's Capitol Hill startup JakPak might be the most useful.

A combination jacket/sleeping bag/tent, the waterproof JakPak is everything a homeless person, or in this case a protestor, needs to stay dry, warm, and mobile while they practice some democracy. And when Rose saw Seattle police arresting demonstrators and confiscating tents on Wednesday night, he decided to drive down to Westlake the next day with more than $6,000 worth of his mighty morphing jackets.