Is popping your zits in public illegal. If you’re not carrying an Oxycotin syringe, what could you be charged with?
That’s why I stay on my side of the river. Those folks in Cape Coral are just nuts.
The comments on that article strike me as far more disturbing than someone standing outside somewhere, popping zits. Granted, the latter is gross and the guy’s an idiot (seriously, offering “John Smith” as an alias?), but the comments are just scary.
I usually get a little sick thrill out of pimple popping (thanks, neverending SDMB zit threads), but I’m gagging over this. Not near the food, you sicko!
If you’re caught popping zits, you should never give your real name. Use a convincing alias.
It’s a good thing the police tackled him. God knows what he might have done otherwise.
The customers were eating at McDonald’s and they thought mere back acne was gross? Do they not understand slaughterhouses and industrial fast food production?
…or ‘special sauce’? :eek:
Customers called the police on someone who wasn’t even in the restaurant? There’s a law against popping pimples in public?
Florida just gets weirder every day.
I don’t think so, or they’d be charging him. He’s being charged with how he responded, and what they discovered afterwards.
Now there’s some diligent reporting.
While waiting in Chicago’s O’Hare airport I saw another couple seated nearby. They were senior citizen age in appearance, and looked as normal and middle class as could be.
So the woman gets up, takes a tiny pair of scissors, and starts trimming the hair in her hubbie’s ears! I kid you not! When she was done with that he tilted his head back and she started in on his nose hair. This is in the airport waiting area, in front of God and everybody.
Ah, people watching.
So no law against public pimple popping, and he wasn’t even IN the McDonald’s. So why were the customers calling the police? Did they really think that was an appropriate response to a public gross-out? And why would the police have even responded to the complaints? 
Ah, there’s more to the story. It still seems a bit confusing.
I would assume that he was asked to leave the restaurant property, failed to do so, and thus was trespassing.
I’m thinking they called based on his overall behaviour, but the media outlet knew they could get readers and attention by calling out the zit popping - .
After all, would you have created this thread based on a headline of “annoying guy at mcdonalds arrested after fleeing the scene” ??
To be fair, they don’t slaughter the cows in front of the restaurant patrons.