Shop display’s toilet humour gets owner in trouble

Published on Saturday 21 January 2012 00:14

A SHOP owner has been told to remove a urinating mannequin from his window after police were called.

The owner of menswear shop Philip Browne in Norwich had posed a wooden mannequin urinating on a wall and spelling out the word “sale” in the store’s window.

The mannequin was surrounded by empty Champagne bottles, party poppers and discarded clothes to depict the aftermath of a night out. But police were called by a member of the public who took exception to the display.

Officers warned shop owner Philip Browne that he could be violating the 1986 Public Order Act.

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Thomas the Tank

Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 09:10 AM

So one nut-job prude gets a fit of the victorian vapours and Plod stops everyone else enjoying harmless lavatorial humour. Can't even blame the EU for this one, otherwise Brussels would lose it's #1 tourist attraction (is there anything else to see there?)

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Navvy

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 09:37 AM

So silly, what about the many Mannikin Pis statues around the world? Get rid of them too?

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allymax

Monday, January 23, 2012 at 04:17 AM

I think it's time to start acting against these laws; when laws are made to constrain individual rights, only because they can, then it's time to start breaking these illegal so-called laws.

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Hector the Lessor

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 08:58 AM

I used to have that kind of gear. A tap connected to nothing giving a continual flow of water into a Gannex bucket. Really good. I do not know if I would go for a guy urinating on a wall spelling out SALE. I have always been a bit of a coward. Not so much from the council officers, but our religious right could be quite demonstrative at times.

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antiparasite

Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 01:47 PM

'You will think as we think and do as we do" -This is the law!!!!....... What in our life is not affected by their laws?????

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americanbob

Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 12:40 PM

Wow, our automated censorship machinery is working overtime today! This site is becoming (becoming???) a joke!

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americanbob

Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 12:38 PM

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cabrach loon

Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 11:42 AM

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