Court: Man Stripped To Boxer Shorts
On 29th November 2011, on Court Street, after shouting at passing police officers, 26-year-old Ahijah Dill began stripping off his jacket, shirt, trousers ending up with only his boxer shorts still on.
Police arrested him and charged him with being improperly dressed in a public place and with disorderly behavior and disturbing the public. The DPP prosecutor did not proceed with the second charge.
Yesterday [Feb.29], in Plea Court before Senior Magistrate Archie Warner, in prosecuting the case, the matter of what constitutes modern proper and improper dress immediately came to the fore.
The Senior Magistrate posed the question: “Why can’t a man wear shorts on Court Street?” The Magistrate went on to say that in what might be described as the ‘bad old days’, women could not wear bikinis without being considered to be improperly dressed, but that times had evolved to where women could be seen on the streets of Hamilton wearing little more than a bikini; and where men in chest-baring tops were not at all uncommon.
Agreeing that dress standards had changed, Duty Counsel Leopold Mills said that he had recently dropped off a young child at primary school and had, at that time, observed a woman who was clearly dressed in pajamas, walking a child to school.
The Prosecutor did not take issue with the points raised and did not object to Mr Mill’s suggestion that the matter was one which perhaps ought not even have been brought before the Court. Mr Mills recommended an Absolute Discharge.
The Senior Magistrate ruled that that Mr Dill was to be given an Absolute Discharge.
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It was rather warm in November (have not had much of a winter) Maybe he was “HOT!!”
LMAO!!!!
Wow the police are worrying about drunks and arresting guys in boxer shorts while at that very moment someone was robbing a house and two guys were riding around looking to see who to shoot. Amazing what our tax dollars go to. I guess whatever he shouted broke the officers pride and he felt I gotta do something. Hence arrested for absolutely nothing. Isn’t it wonderful what our tax dollars pay for. And they here rejecting a pay cut. You ain’t doing anything and still are getting top dollar. Most jobs u get fired if you aren’t producing.
Holla if u hear me.
The amount of major illegal activity going on in the area of Court Street and they’re worrying about a drunk fool dancing in his pum pum shorts. Smh
This says it all as to how far society in Bermuda has deteriorated. When you have magistrates like Archie Warner sitting on the Bench, condoning anti-social and lewd behaviour, it is truly a sign that the inmates have taken over the asylum!
So thug wannabes dressed in all black everything with a screw faced look on their face is more sociable? A guy stripping down to his boxers is not anti social. Unless you live in Iran but they consider covering their women head to toe in 100 degree weather & stoning them if they don’t comply as sociable.
We were born without cloths so why should we punished for not putting them on. My children have walked down a nude beach in spain & it did not phase them a bit. They are more mature & open minded than some other kids in Bermuda who’s mentality has been repressed by religiously impacted taboos. At least they know its wrong for others to touch them in certain places & vice versa while other parents are scared to death of touching such a religious taboo subject with kids when they should.
So objecting to some nut wandering around in public in his underwear is now akin to being a religious fanatic??
Your words show that your unhappy with Archie Warner’s judgement. This leads me to believe you think the judge should have punished this man for being in his underwear in public. The only punishment the judge could sentence a man like this is to serve prison time because he probably has no money to pay a fine. To put a man in prison for this is not as extreme as a religious fanatic but is still extreme enough. He did not physically harm anyone but you call him antisocial he did not make any sexually perverted gestures but you call him lewd. To have such strong judgement over a person that done something so minor must have a religious basis because only religious beliefs would cause such narrow mindedness. This is why I compared your objections to a religious fanatic.
LOL, you can not be serious!
Poor guy was trying to get his sexy on he probably found out what strippers make & was trying to get into the action. Police should have just put a few dollars in his waistband & let him be. At least they could see he had no concealed weapons & his style of clothing didn’t fit the description in the new gang identifying hand book.
What’s wrong with showing your body anyway we all have one. Its crazy how in the western hemisphere a film with slight nudity will get an R rating while a film riddled with violence will be PG13. It’s the opposite in europe because they realize a 13 year old seeing violence on screen makes more of a negative impression than seeing nudity.
Cracking up at work. Someone tell him next time to wait for a boat to take him into international water before putting on a show like all the others do.