Hey guys, we’re going to try and answer one or two more questions before we wrap up and call it a pre-Fling. You guys have been great with your support and encouragement. Here we go, let’s get to it:
Can I get in trouble for carrying around a flask? How about an empty flask?
A flask is a perpetually open container. You can’t carry around one of those in public generally. For a flask to be considered empty, it should be as clean as possible and not smell strongly of liquor. Otherwise, it’s comparable to carrying around a solo cup that you just dumped out in terms of its contents.
However, unlike that solo cup, a flask cannot be discovered on your person without you being searched. So unless you are seen drinking from it and then quickly shoving it into your pocket, it’s as difficult for cops to establish probable cause as it is for any other offence that we’ve discussed in this blog. Without probable cause, you can’t be searched.
Are you guys lawyers?
Good question. Absolutely not, and we are most definitely not providing you with legal counsel. We are concerned Penn students, working with professors and law students to assemble publicly available knowledge into a resource that everybody can use to protect themselves from harassment and misinformation.
And with that, we’re going to start enjoying our Fling. It’s been a fun 3 days working on this and we intend to post updates periodically throughout the weekend, as well as a post mortem after Fling addressing anything that may have happened. We’ll be out and about Fling all weekend in our yrFling tanks, like a bunch of schmucks. Come say hi if you see us.
Cheers and get at it,
-BW&TR
No comments:
Post a Comment