For being in an enclosed space...

Whilst trying to get into an empty building, three squatters were arrested under the 1824 Vagrancy Act. The cops claimed (not without reason) that the squatters were found “in an enclosed area.” Under the aforementioned Act they were thus “to be deemed rogues and vagabonds”. The squatters were held for over 17 hours at the police station’s own ‘enclosed space.’ Despite admitting that they were indeed roguish vagabonds, the cops decided there was insufficient evidence to charge them and let them all go.

Luckily the Vagrancy Act has been amended slightly since its introduction, otherwise our three incorrigible rogues could have faced punishment by ‘hard labour and whipping’.