JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 days agoFew places nowadays is it legal to lay around & do whatever you want outdoors, usually getting cited for loitering or something. Thank goodness for beaches, we're mostly free here.lemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up1462arrow-down119
arrow-up1443arrow-down1imageFew places nowadays is it legal to lay around & do whatever you want outdoors, usually getting cited for loitering or something. Thank goodness for beaches, we're mostly free here.lemmy.dbzer0.comJennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square140fedilink
minus-squaredaniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·3 days agoLoitering…I don’t even think that word has a translation in my language. You made up a term and turn it into a crime?
minus-squareRegrettable_incident@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoI think it means like hanging around. But I guess they thought a ‘Hanging around’ charge would be hard to take seriously in court. Land of the free, eh
minus-squaretitanicx@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoStarted as a Dutch word then moved into middle English. I’m sure there is an equivalent word on whatever language you speak.
minus-squareVegafjord demcon@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agohttps://www.etymonline.com/word/loiter#etymonline_v_12401
Loitering…I don’t even think that word has a translation in my language. You made up a term and turn it into a crime?
I think it means like hanging around. But I guess they thought a ‘Hanging around’ charge would be hard to take seriously in court. Land of the free, eh
Started as a Dutch word then moved into middle English. I’m sure there is an equivalent word on whatever language you speak.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/loiter#etymonline_v_12401