Laws on climbing structures.

[CliffyBiro]

Partly what Tefal says but simply that if you cause the public to stare at you while climbing you are probably going to end up blocking a pavement or road and you've caused a disturbance by doing something out of the ordinary. I'm assuming here that he is talking about climbing something worthwhile and not a park bench.

Again, I'm going to use another example.

Christmas time. A fat bloke is walking down the street dressed as Santa but wearing a gimp mask. People are staring. Still can't be deemed as disturbing the peace.

 

[CliffyBiro]

Yes but thats a acident not deliberately hanging a heavy and poorly attached weight off the side of a tall building is it :/

May not be an accident.

 

[Tefal]

May not be an accident.

hard to prosecute a dead man...

but walking under a bus, is probbably less, endangering to the public than hanging of a building.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Again, I'm going to use another example.

Christmas time. A fat bloke is walking down the street dressed as Santa but wearing a gimp mask. People are staring. Still can't be deemed as disturbing the peace.

Use the example and be told that it could in fact be a breach of the peace (BoP). The chances of being charged with it are relatively slim but a BoP is a remarkably adaptable charge, it can be applied almost anywhere and under any circumstances where you have done something (anything) to disturb public order.

 

[Strife212]

Again, I'm going to use another example.

Christmas time. A fat bloke is walking down the street dressed as Santa but wearing a gimp mask. People are staring. Still can't be deemed as disturbing the peace.

That can be deemed as disturbing the peace, almost anything can thats the point of it

 

[romperstomper]

Are you trespassing by leaning against a train station wall?

No difference then if you decide to climb it.

Hardly,if someone was leaning against my house I would tell them to clear off ,now if they were climbing up it I would not be to happy .

You would also get suspected of trying to rob the place .

 

[daveydave]

Hardly,if someone was leaning against my house I would tell them to clear off ,now if they were climbing up it I would not be to happy .

You would also get suspected of trying to rob the place .

My point exactly, someone go climb a building belonging to....i dunno....a large multinational and come back to tells us what the police threw at you.

 

[Crossy]

 

[Heliospherez]

Why not ask the 'Fathers for Justice' lads......they've climbed a few important things and been prosecuted.

Here's one case .... there are dozens others available with details of what they were charged with....


"A FATHERS' rights campaigner who spent more than two days on the top of the Tyne Bridge today denied being a danger to passing motorists.

Simon Anderton, 49, appeared before Newcastle Magistrates Court charged with causing a danger to road users."

 

[Tefal]

that a mining conveyor or a bridge?

 

[Crossy]

that a mining conveyor or a bridge?

Transporter Bridge.

 

[Tefal]

Transporter Bridge.

Privatly owned or public?

Do you plan on getting seen?

I think with this you avoid public endangerment (your not really going to fall on anyone) but risk much greater penalties for costing companies etc delay if they have to shut the bridge down.

 

[Crossy]

Privatly owned or public?

Do you plan on getting seen?

I think with this you avoid public endangerment (your not really going to fall on anyone) but risk much greater penalties for costing companies etc delay if they have to shut the bridge down.

I only went there to take pictures. Nothing else. I picked a time when it was at night and the bridge was closed. Minimizing the risk of anybody apart from myself getting hurt or injured. And no, i wasnt trying to be seen at all.

EDIT: You can see by the Exif data on the picture that this photo was taken around midnight. A good few hours after the bridge closed and many hours before the bridge was scheduled to re-open.

 

[Heliospherez]

And if you get stuck, and have to be rescued, you may be liable for all the bills (as in you may have an action taken out against you by the rescue services involved) - which could total into the 10's of thousands.

 

[fini]

If you try climbing a person (eg the photographer) then it could be sexual assault.

 

[Tefal]

I only went there to take pictures. Nothing else. I picked a time when it was at night and the bridge was closed. Minimizing the risk of anybody apart from myself getting hurt or injured. And no, i wasnt trying to be seen at all.

EDIT: You can see by the Exif data on the picture that this photo was taken around midnight. A good few hours after the bridge closed and many hours before the bridge was scheduled to re-open.

Good man

Since you've done it any chance of getting the rest of the photos up?

 

[Crossy]

Good man

Since you've done it any chance of getting the rest of the photos up?

Just click on the picture. Its a direct link to my Flickr. I didnt take many photo's. Had to use Manual focus so that the light on my camera wouldn't come on. (The bridge is visable from all over M'brough) Plus it started to drizzle a bit, so i didnt want to leave it too long for the surface to get slippy.

 

[Crossy]

Why not ask the 'Fathers for Justice' lads......they've climbed a few important things and been prosecuted.

Here's one case .... there are dozens others available with details of what they were charged with....


"A FATHERS' rights campaigner who spent more than two days on the top of the Tyne Bridge today denied being a danger to passing motorists.

Simon Anderton, 49, appeared before Newcastle Magistrates Court charged with causing a danger to road users."

Yeah i read about this. Which made me realise that such activities of climbing structures doesnt have any specific laws. Obviously frowned upon, but there's nothing specific they can prosecute you for if you doing in a reasonably safe and controlled manor.

 

[Tefal]

Nice pictures

 

[Crossy]

Nice pictures

cheers mate