Are you an obnoxious jerk who enjoys deliberately pissing people
off? Well, good news:
You are now legal in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The city has
officially moved to decriminalize annoyingness.
Under current city code, “no person shall willfully annoy
another person” in Grand Rapids without facing consequences. The
Grand Rapids City Commission is now seeking to repeal the
38-year-old code because what constitutes “willfully annoying” is
“subject to a variety of interpretations.” City Attorney Catherine
Mish told The
Grand Rapids Press the section was unconstitutionally
vague and “simply unenforceable.”
It seems 2014 is shaping up to be a good year all around for
freedom of annoyingness. In January, the
British House of Lords voted against a clause imposing
sanctions on anyone in England and Wales engaging in “conduct
capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person.” And last
month the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled
that simply being drunk and annoying wasn’t a crime.
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