Lol. That is felony. You can go to court.

mosho4all:
Good evening,

I had an encounter with Nigeria police twice regarding a intimacy gadget in my car which they are telling me is a illegal. They stated that it’s must be ceased from me.

Lawyers in the house please enlightening us regarding this please

Starz825:

Only this guy above gets it.
It was a JOKE!!! Supposed to make you laugh!
How on earth can having intimacy gadget in your car be illegal??!!
But a bigger question is:
How on earth did this nonsense make front page??!!!

Kobojunkie:
Up to what no good? Please explain!

histemple:


Which law forbids intimacy gadgets in the car?

Akwamkpuruamu:


Does it pose any harm to anyone?

cedricksly:
if na buy him buy am how him go carry am reach house Bro there is nothing illegal about ha ING an intimacy gadget in your possession, be it inside, outside or anywhere.... If it is a crime to have an intimacy gadget in your car then it is obviously a crime to have a condom pack in your possession outside..

litaninja:
You're talking nonsense.

CaptainFM1:


It's only a crime if it violates the rights of others. He may be coming from a store where he bought his intimacy device?

Having a Love Machine with you or a porrn pics or your g/f nudes or xxxual acts you two involved in on your phone isn't a crime unless you start showing it to people who wishes not to see it.

To violate a law, the particular statutes violated must be quoted to give credence to the offence. That's how laws are determined. If there's no statute/law, there's no crime.

What law are you breaking for doing that.....

Then we should also note that if you were driving in the northern parts of Nigeria .
I am sorry to tell you it is a criminal office

Funny is it not

onumadu:


The officer essentially stole the toy from you.

Like has been said already, you committed no crime just by having it in your possession and safely out of sight.

In Nigeria, police can do a lot to you IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

nonsense, knowing ur rights saves no one 4rm demonz unless u are a bigger bastard. the bigger bastard overwhelms them with greater dogs and weaponz!

PoliteActivist:


Only this guy above gets it.
It was a JOKE!!! Supposed to make you laugh!
How on earth can having intimacy gadget in your car be illegal??!!
But a bigger question is:
How on earth did this nonsense make front page??!!!

Jokes are not viewed from the person that cracked it. It's the recipient that determines if it's a joke! The same thing goes for pranks!

In other words, it's not you that will determine if it's a joke/prank or not for others. What is a joke to you, might not be a joke to others.

That's why if you joke and it hurts someone, the person can sue you or get annoyed for it. To you it might be a joke, but to someone else it can be an offence. Case in view (Chris Rock vs Will Smith).

There was a court case (I will search and find it for you later) someone was pranked on and in the process the person kpai. Now the pranker is serving life sentencing.

Since the post is for education purpose, I just say make I chip in one or two comments for us all to learn.

baralatie:

That a place is an establishment for the purchase of intimacy gadget is different from a police seeing an unboxed intimacy gadget in your car.when it should be in your house

LOL legal at home and illegal in the car.. Okay

CaptainFM1:


Jokes are not viewed from the person that cracked it. It's the recipient that determines if it's a joke! The same thing goes for pranks!

In other words, it's not you that will determine if it's a joke/prank or not for others. What is a joke to you, might not be a joke to others.

That's why if you joke and it hurts someone, the person can sue you or get annoyed for it. To you it might be a joke, but to someone else it can be an offence. Case in view (Chris Rock vs Will Smith).

There was a court case (I will search and find it for you later) someone was pranked on and in the process the person kpai. Now the pranker is serving life sentencing.

Since the post is for education purpose, I just say make I chip in one or two comments for us all to learn.

This is actually wrong. Take the following, they are all obvious jokes from whatever perspective:

** I am on a seafood diet; I see food, I eat it!

**My wife says I am the only one she has ever dated. The others were all nines or tens!

** My kid gave me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. At least she inherited my sense of humor!

No

MrPresident1:


'Seun', what do you gain from putting poorly worded idiotic threads to FP? You want to show the world that Nigerians are half educated dingbats? You think that we cannot see that all these stupid threads are serving an end? Continue in your self delusion

Your mods cannot check simple spellings and tenses correct them before placing on FP?

You should make editing of FP bound material for grammar and tenses a criterion for FP placement. This is just a simple thread and it is loaded with nonsense!

Your Nairaland is dead!

What end? I am also surprised at some of the topics I see on front page. What's going on?

baralatie:

Under the Criminal Code
“Any Person who; willfully and without lawful excuse does any indecent act in any public place or; willfully does any indecent act in any place with intent to insult or offend any person is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is liable to imprisonment for two years




don't test the r solve of a police officer to insist that you are under suspicion of breaking the law o

And the above is even small.there is another one that I am looking for self

but the item is stored in the boot of their car, so how does this law apply? If he/she bought it from a shop, how are they supposed to transport it home?

CaptainFM1:


Those people selling it are not suppose to display it openly too. It has to be in a closed shop. They can however display it open on the shelf inside the shop.

Another good example of this crime is committed everytime by most bars, clubs and hotels when they display banners of their shows with mapoka and strippers girls on the road. That is clearly a crime committed despite advertising.

bars and clubs are rated 18 naa. If they display it inside their club or hotel, nothing wrong, except they display it in public view where underaged might see them

Ask senator Yabo from Adamawa.

PoliteActivist:


This is actually wrong. Take the following, they are all obvious jokes from whatever perspective:

** I am on a seafood diet; I see food, I eat it!

**My wife says I am the only one she has ever dated. The others were all nines or tens!

** My kid gave me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. At least she inherited my sense of humor!

Foremost, those are humours and not jokes. There's however a fine line between them.

Secondly, they are not injurious and are open ended.

I'm not referring to jokes/pranks that's referring/directed to no one in particular.

For example, If you write all "those" on your social media page and I went to your page to read. I shouldn't take offense because it's an open ended jokes that's not implicitly directed to me nor injurious in any way to my personality.

But if you specifically mention someone's name, race, religion on your page or blog either jokingly or not in a manner that defames, then you can be sued for Libels or slanderous comments.

If you remember Sterling bank and it's odious joke Easter last year comparing Jesus Christ with Agege Bread..."Like Agege Bread, He Rose!” It may have been a joke from the Bank's view but not to the Christian community. I guess you are grown enough to weigh that between funny and injury. That's why people call for sanction of the bank and sack of the MD.

The difference is in the level of injury it caused the victim and not the satisfaction or fun the joker derived.

Stuffs like that and including bullying are taking seriously in developed countries the moment someone reports it because it's no longer from your own standpoint of view (joke) anymore.

For more knowledge and understanding....
https://www.thecable.ng/pranks-the-legal-consequences/amp

https://bgwlawyers.com/the-unexpected-consequences-when-a-practical-joke-goes-awry/

https://www.daslaw.co.uk/blog/trouble-with-the-law-on-april-fools-day

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hoganinjury.com/pranks-gone-wrong-liabilities/amp/

thatigboman:
bars and clubs are rated 18 naa. If they display it inside their club or hotel, nothing wrong, except they display it in public view where underaged might see them

I think I wrote on the road side there. Did you not read that? SMH!

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CaptainFM1:


Foremost, those are humours and not jokes. There's however a fine line between them.

Secondly, they are not injurious and are open ended.

I'm not referring to jokes/pranks that's referring/directed to no one in particular.

For example, If you write all "those" on your social media page and I went to your page to read. I shouldn't take offense because it's an open ended jokes that's not implicitly directed to me nor injurious in any way to my personality.

But if you specifically mention someone's name, race, religion on your page or blog either jokingly or not in a manner that defames, then you can be sued for Libels or slanderous comments.

If you remember Sterling bank and it's odious joke Easter last year comparing Jesus Christ with Agege Bread..."Like Agege Bread, He Rose!” It may have been a joke from the Bank's view but not to the Christian community. I guess you are grown enough to weigh that between funny and injury. That's why people call for sanction of the bank and sack of the MD.

The difference is in the level of injury it caused the victim and not the satisfaction or fun the joker derived.

Stuffs like that and including bullying are taking seriously in developed countries the moment someone reports it because it's no longer from your own standpoint of view (joke) anymore.

For more knowledge and understanding....
https://www.thecable.ng/pranks-the-legal-consequences/amp

https://bgwlawyers.com/the-unexpected-consequences-when-a-practical-joke-goes-awry/

https://www.daslaw.co.uk/blog/trouble-with-the-law-on-april-fools-day

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hoganinjury.com/pranks-gone-wrong-liabilities/amp/

Humor is an attribute of jokes. A joke is something spoken, written, or said with humorous intention.
My statement,
"It is illegal to have it in your car though, because it is an indication you're about to be up to no good"
is intrinsically humorous

armadeo:


What end? I am also surprised at some of the topics I see on front page. What's going on?

That Nigerians are BLACK people

PoliteActivist:


Humor is an attribute of jokes. A joke is something spoken, written, or said with humorous intention.
My statement,
"It is illegal to have it in your car though, because it is an indication you're about to be up to no good"
is intrinsically humorous

Well then you understand my drift...If your Humor that is an attribute of Joke is injurious to someone, you can be sued for it.
On the bolded, we have well since deviated on that topic.

Yeah....you mean If my condoms were found in my car, it is that a crime? Even when government is advocating for people to use condoms to prevent HIV/Aids. But to you and the police officer, I'm up to no good! SMH.


For a crime to be committed, you have to state clearly, the legal statute that was flouted. It's very unfortunate that in our part of the world,
police and the people don't know what part of the law they are activating whenever they are taking stands.

Vinnie2000:


OP,

One day, dat Intimacy gadget will hook on ur Sexual organ.

Better find a good Dating partner.

I can't leave Nairaland. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

AMI3:


Na ur business? U must be a spy

Spy For What? .I Never Knew Owning Such Gadgets Is Enough Concern For Us FBI Agents To Do Some Undercover Work

What are you carrying one in your car for? That damn thing should be behind closed door. Ultimately, it's a sin to use such gadgets as it promotes lust.

CaptainFM1:


Well then you understand my drift...If your Humor that is an attribute of Joke is injurious to someone, you can be sued for it.
On the bolded, we have well since deviated on that topic.

Yeah....you mean If my condoms were found in my car, it is that a crime? Even when government is advocating for people to use condoms to prevent HIV/Aids. But to you and the police officer, I'm up to no good! SMH.


For a crime to be committed, you have to state clearly, the legal statute that was flouted. It's very unfortunate that in our part of the world,
police and the people don't know what part of the law they are activating whenever they are taking stands.

You still don't get it is a joke or you just kidding?
That "you're about to be up to no good" makes it a joke. How can "you're about to be up to no good" be
a crime?? The statement itself is funny!

PoliteActivist:


You still don't get it is a joke or you just kidding?
That "you're about to be up to no good" makes it a joke. How can "you're about to be up to no good" be
a crime?? The statement itself is funny!

I get the joke Bro. I said we've deviated from that angle. But since we were educating ourselves that why I put all that out.

You and I know that Nigerian police don't know all these. They don't joke with it. They are always looking for things to nail you.

As a matter of fact, a police officer has harassed me for having a condom in my pocket once. Well I turned it right at his face that I'm going to where I want to go and knack! He already embarrassed me inside a public bus by dipping his hands into my pockets.

One thing I noticed is that Nigerian police do actually fear citizens that challenge them. The only thing I fear about them is the gon they carry cos some of them can be trigger-happy.

CaptainFM1:


I get the joke Bro. I said we've deviated from that angle. But since we were educating ourselves that why I put all that out.

You and I know that Nigerian police don't know all these. They don't joke with it. They are always looking for things to nail you.

As a matter of fact, a police officer has harassed me for having a condom in my pocket once. Well I turned it right at his face that I'm going to where I want to go and knack! He already embarrassed me inside a public bus by dipping his hands into my pockets.

One thing I noticed is that Nigerian police do actually fear citizens that challenge them. The only thing I fear about them is the gon they carry cos some of them can be trigger-happy.

Exactly, the guns. Because if you're dead or maimed no amount of being right can bring you back.
Of course they're afraid. The guilty are afraid!

Ireportlive:
Non that I know of... However a Police officer has the right to detain you for questioning if he thinks you are about to commit an offense of public indecency later with the gadget

Bringing out a Sexual object or material depicting sex is an Offense " Public Indecency"

However if it's in your glove box, or boot covered away from public veiws, the officer can only warn you not to bring it out in public

By the same logic…
If you are transporting a bed or a spade, the police can arrest you. SMH

For the avoidance of any doubt…
Police CANNOT arrest for possessing any item that could be used “illegally” in the future.
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Ireportlive:

However a Police officer has the right to detain you for questioning if he thinks you are about to commit an offense of public indecency later with the gadget

Law and all legal processes do not work on what a police officer thinks in his mind or head. Nobody can be detained for questioning because a police man thinks of something. The police has no right to detain a person because of what the person will do in future. It must have happened, or currently happening, Never a case of "going to happen". A case or charge based on this won't survive in court or anywhere.

And the manner you introduced public indecency is also wrong. That's manufacturing a charge/offense.
Because I buy a knife doesn't mean I am going to kill someone later that night. Because I buy a ski mask doesn't mean I am going to rob a bank over the weekend. The police or court can't prove this.

mosho4all:

ceased

Please can we stop making this mistake. It's quite simple and not a typo from autocorrect.
seize (verb) take hold of suddenly and forcibly.
cease (verb) bring or come to an end.

fkj950ax:


Law and all legal processes do not work on what a police officer thinks in his mind or head. Nobody can be detained for questioning because a police man thinks of something. The police has no right to detain a person because of what the person will do in future. It must have happened, or currently happening, Never a case of "going to happen". A case or charge based on this won't survive in court or anywhere.

And the manner you introduced public indecency is also wrong. That's manufacturing a charge/offense.
Because I buy a knife doesn't mean I am going to kill someone later that night. Because I buy a ski mask doesn't mean I am going to rob a bank over the weekend. The police or court can't prove this.


Please can we stop making this mistake. It's quite simple and not a typo from autocorrect.
seize (verb) take hold of suddenly and forcibly.
cease (verb) bring or come to an end.

Go and read the Nigerian Police Act, make sure you read the duty of stop and search and what "reasonable suspicion" means under the law

Try and read what Beat and Patrol duty means

9jaRealist:


By the same logic…
If you are transporting a bed or a spade, the police can arrest you. SMH

For the avoidance of any doubt…
Police CANNOT arrest for possessing any item that could be used “illegally” in the future.
>

Before you go further arguing Google what Lawful detention means according to Nigerian Police Act

Ireportlive:
Before you go further arguing Google what Lawful detention means according to Nigerian Police Act

Dude, lawful detention is a legal CONCLUSION…
A detention is NOT lawful unless/until a court determines it is.
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PoliteActivist:
It is not illegal to have intimacy gadget as long as it's behind closed doors. It is illegal to have it in your car though because it is an indication you're about to be up to no good

wtf.... Pls it's not illegal to hqve it in your car or bags

vince96w2:
is his car not private? Or is it a public car?

So he or she can spread thire bare ass cheeks against the windscreen in traffic or beside the road because the vehicle is private ?

I believe the poster you were quoting was right to sugest that the display of intimacy gadgets, books and random material in your vehicle in a way that is exposed to public view, including children, is possibly illigal under relevant local public decency/indecency laws.