Pappa wrote:In the UK, they could be arrested and charged with harassment the second time it was reported to the police. I've never heard it happening to religious nuts, but I'm pretty sure it would happen.
If I got regular calls from JWs or other door-to-door religious folk, I'd quite like to see if our pretty flexible harassment laws could be used on them.
The principle's pretty simple. If someone does something to you that makes you feel harassed, you report it to the police and if they are satisfied you really were harassed they inform the harasser of that fact and that if they do it again they will be committing a criminal offence.
In the street, in the US, they would probably be allowed to do that. I think it would only be harrassment if they did that on private property. Just look at what Fred Phelps and his gang gets away with.
I agree though, why did it take them that long to do something about it? I would have been blasting some heavy metal at them the first day.