Quote Originally Posted by Blodrast
I must be missing something... what is illegal/ a crime in picking up something from the floor/from a chair, when there isn't anyone around ? How do they know the person picking it up isn't gonna return it to the police ?
Those were my thoughts too

I really do hope that all these cases are quashed in court; they're just cases of police wasting their time and public money.

It brings to mind the local police here, who've set up a static speed camera on a bridge in the inner city - for "public safety", of course. The fact that it would reportedly net upwards of $70000 per day (at least until people learned it was there) had nothing to do with it, I'm sure...