If you're in the UK, check out this new Rough Sleeping Criminal Justice Bill. Feel free to boost this for visibility or add hashtags - I think it's important to set &/or maintain the precedent that these laws be debated and critiqued very thoroughly. Telling someone with no home to 'move along' is a stiff order. That police could be asked to uphold this law (as it is written) could carry a risk of moral injury to our coppers.
“Nuisance rough sleeping” starts at s.59, and the offending smelly “rough sleeping condition” can be found at s.69(5)(c). Including words from subs.(4):
> A person does “something that is a nuisance” if the person ... causes or does something capable of causing ... damage to the environment (including excessive noise, smells, litter or deposits of waste)...
If one were to parody this, I'd propose the following as a start:
"Sleeping in public in the UK must now be done only in a suit and tie or equivalent formal dress, whilst wearing a perfume. Snoring is illegal. Campaigners are lobbying the government to permit it to be carried out whilst wearing a polo-shirt and chinos, however the government maintain that this is a slippery slope to people wearing pyjamas in public, and thence anarchy."
Information about one's MP is available at https://www.theyworkforyou.com/ if you feel further critique of this law is a worthy cause. I'd suggest any MP pushing for this would get positive media coverage.
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