What Law am I breaking ?

[Bazile]

I park my roller in town in car park , take off my expensive suit and put on a track suit - then proceed to the main street in city centre and start begging for money .

Am I breaking any laws ?

[Psybbo]

Are you a banker?

[Flyhalf]

Was that rhyming slang, banker?

[Prudie]

What a plonker that drummer looks. Could any of them actually play those instruments?

[factor-fiction]

Err Prudie- in the 1970s people used to mistake me for Derek the drummer.

He became a nurse but I think he had some issues.

There is footage on youtube of them playing live

[Flyhalf]

You probably are breaking several laws on different counts, but are unlikely to be prosecuted, but simply moved on.
I'd be more concerned about the roller - anyone spotting your transformation might be tempted to take a hammer or a sharp instrument to it.

[friedgreentomato]

The law of taste - honestly why would you drive a roller?

[sandyRoe]

The idea that there's a fortune to be made begging isn't new. There's a Sherlock Holmes story base on it.

[Prudie]

Err sorry factor - of course I meant his mannerisms, not his face per se :-)

[Psybbo]

But I thought you were stuck in the office with no money, so you are a bamker

[Bazile]

^^^^^^^^
I'm just a poor banker , who can't afford to run his roller

[jake-the-peg]

You could be obtaining money by deception if you're telling people you're poor/homeless etc

[baza]

surely the deception is saying poor and banker in the same breath.

[Bazile]

^^^^^^^

I'm not going to be telling them that - i'll just say something like -

' got any loose change , guv

[Bazile]

that was in response to JTP

[FredPuli43]

You'd be done for begging under the Victorian era Vagrancy Act, which, as suggested, has antecedents dating back to when discharged soldiers were begging.

And there is possibly fraud in making false representations to obtain money. The snag with that is in proving that people gave money simply because of the implied, or even express, representation. An old case involved a man saying that he was a lord whereupon a shopkeeper trusted him to take jewellery against a cheque in payment. It was held that the shopkeeper was selling to the man in front of him not to the fictional lord and thus the claim to be a lord was immaterial to the obtaining of the goods.

[Bazile]

I wont be implying anything - plus i will be walking around on different streets