A masked man has been spotted spying on a couple through their window late at night in a village in Somerset. Avon and Somerset Police said officers were called to Claverham on 1 September at 0:15 BST but were "unable to locate the man”.
In 2019 a man in a “gimp suit” charged at a woman in the village terrifying her. Officers said they were keeping an open mind as to whether the two incidents were linked.
A man wearing nothing but a black latex mask was spotted 'staring at traffic' then running through woodland.
Shocked motorist Craig Upton called 999 after coming across the bizarre sight at 7am when he was travelling to work. Mr Upton, from Andover, Hants, said: "He was stood at a five-bar gate in a layby... naked with a latex black mask on. He was just stood, staring at the traffic like a horror movie, and then when we drove back past after turning around, he was running off."
On an other occasion a black-clad ‘gimp’ was seen walking the aisles of Tesco in Colchester, Essex in April 2020.
I don't see why you would call the police over a naked man looking at traffic. Or make a scene about a bloke wearing a gimp suit in a shop. I'm not condoning it but the offence doesn't compare to the real villains of society such as dawdling and disorderly pedestrians, women elbowing their way to the bar to order 20 drinks for their friends on card and other shit that imposes itself on our day. By all means naked people can be a nuisance but it's not like he was sitting on the train next to me.
My dream society is a bloke in a gimp suit walking past the police drag off a ne'er-do-well who was using a megaphone.
S.5 Public Order Act 1986. Unless Mr Gimp can show that he sincerely believed that his behaviour wouldn't cause harassment, alarm or distress, then he's bang to rights.
>>35288 That's why the police would come, not why you would be motivated to ring them about it. We're a nation of curtain-twitchers wasting police time.
I'm dodging a cunt-off over mens rea here because criminal law is mess in this country.
I don't think it's unreasonable to imagine that someone might actually be alarmed or distressed by the sight of a naked man outside their house at midnight.
>A notorious 'gimp' who has plagued villages dressed in a rubber suit has been arrested yet again after jumping out at terrified locals in his latex outfit.
Now you mention it, it does seem like a bad photofit / AI reinterpretation of Matt Hancock, based on tales of the former Health minister's self-confidence. Always thought he had pure gimp potential.