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== [[Literature]] ==

* Happens in several episodes of ''[[Are You Being Served?~~|Are You Being Served~~]]'', including an instance of Mr. Rumbold refusing to vouch for the staff to get revenge. Mr. Humphries was once detained for having a "suspicious-looking bulge" from an orange in his pocket.

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* The ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'' notes that Ankh-Morpork law (a parody of English law) has "a whole quiverful of offences available to a policeman who wishes to pass the time of day with a citizen, ranging from Loitering With Intent through Obstruction to Lingering While Being the Wrong Colour/Shape/Species/Sex ".

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

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* Happens in several episodes of ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'', including an instance of Mr. Rumbold refusing to vouch for the staff to get revenge. Mr. Humphries was once detained for having a "suspicious-looking bulge" from an orange in his pocket.

* ''[[All Creatures Great and Small]]'': James Herriot is forced to go down to the station to vouch for one of his clients when he is arrested for wearing a kerchief over his nose and mouth. Mr Herriot had suggested it to help the client cope with a particularly foul-smelling task to undertake at his farm, and he'd forgotten he was wearing it. Subverted in that despite the story taking place when the old sus law was still on the books, walking around with your face masked was and still is covered under Going Equipped To Commit A Crime.

* ''[[As Time Goes By]]'': Lionel is detained while trying to find Jean. Jean, who is angry at him, refuses to vouch.

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* In one of the most famous sketches from ''[[Not the Nine O'Clock News]]'' (written before the repeal of the sus law), Constable Savage is reprimanded for making arrests for "Looking At Me In A Funny Way", "Walking On The Cracks In The Pavement", "Smelling Of Foreign Food" and "Possession Of An Offensive Wife", among many, many other charges he has brought... against the same man. Said man is, at the time of the reprimand, being held on a charge of "Possession Of Curly Black Hair And Thick Lips". The punchline has Savage transferred to the SPG. The Special Patrol Group was a public disorder control unit implicated in the death of a civilian in 1979, discredited after investigation and disbanded in 1986.

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* The player could easily be arrested for "acting suspiciously" in ''[[Legends Of Valour]]''.

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* In one of the most famous sketches from ''[[Not the ~~Nine O'Clock News|Not The~~ Nine O'Clock News]]''(written before the repeal of the sus law), Constable Savage is reprimanded for making arrests for "Looking At Me In A Funny Way", "Walking On The Cracks In The Pavement", "Smelling Of Foreign Food" and "Possession Of An Offensive Wife", among many, many other charges he has brought... against the same man. Said man is, at the time of the reprimand, being held on a charge of "Possession Of Curly Black Hair And Thick Lips". The punchline has Savage transferred to the SPG. The Special Patrol Group was a public disorder control unit implicated in the death of a civilian in 1979, discredited after investigation and disbanded in 1986.

{{quote|'''Inspector''': Is he a coloured gentleman?

'''Savage''': ''(shocked)'' Hadn't noticed, sir. }}

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* The ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'' notes that Ankh-Morpork law (a parody of English law) has "a whole quiverful of offences available to a policeman who wishes to pass the time of day with a citizen, ranging from Loitering With Intent through Obstruction to Lingering While Being the Wrong Colour/Shape/Species/Sex ".

== [[Video Games]] ==

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* ''Dangerously Chloe'' had a bratty angel trying to "arrest" Teddy because he can [[Invisible to Normals|see her wings]]. Which they discovered after she tripped over her own [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat]]. That was her outfit of choice to shadow random humans. Which she did because she thought "there was something suspicious about them". Before this (offscreen), she caught "a suspicious doggy".

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* The player could easily be arrested for "acting suspiciously" in ''[[Legends of Valour]]''.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

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* ''[[Dangerously Chloe]]'' had a bratty angel trying to "arrest" Teddy because he can [[Invisible to Normals|see her wings]]. Which they discovered after she tripped over her own [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat]]. That was her outfit of choice to shadow random humans. Which she did because she thought "there was something suspicious about them". Before this (offscreen), she caught "a suspicious doggy".

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