Legal question?
- Thread starter therevjay
- Start date
Register to hide this ad
Alk8944
US Veteran
"Mopery" is a term often used by Police to refer to a the actions/conduct of a generally worthless individual who really deserves to go to jail, but has not committed any specific act for which he could be arrested. It probably has been tagged onto a booking sheet a few times though. Its an inside joke, not a legal term in any sense.
The average attorney would probably have no idea what you are talking about, a LEO would, at least one who has been around long enough to be eligible for retirement.
The average attorney would probably have no idea what you are talking about, a LEO would, at least one who has been around long enough to be eligible for retirement.
straightshooter1
US Veteran
I am unaware of any statute dealing with mopery. At least in my State.
However, back before I was a lawyer, I was a young police officer and this was one of the "crimes" we joked about, like "Shooting Into Occupied Clothing." Or, "Fornicating On A Federal." Or, "Creeping With Intent To Lurk."
Bob
However, back before I was a lawyer, I was a young police officer and this was one of the "crimes" we joked about, like "Shooting Into Occupied Clothing." Or, "Fornicating On A Federal." Or, "Creeping With Intent To Lurk."
Bob
OK Hog Shooter
Member
Mopery. That's what I felt every time my Dad said it was time to castrate the pigs headed to market. Can I say that? By the way, Dad was the king of procrastination and the piggies usually weighed somewhere between 180 and 200 pounds. That's not the kind of operaton they took peaceably. Whew!
Stevie
Member
'Mopary'...I'm guilty of this..have both a Dodge Challenger..and a Dodge truck..plus an old Jeep truck.
'Mopary'...didn't know it was a crime!
'Mopary'...didn't know it was a crime!
OK thanks, I read it in a detective story. As in "Billy Bob was well known to the police for mopery."
Last edited:
G.T. Smith
US Veteran
Mopary. It is a condition I experienced one time. I was running a 6 pack 440 1969 Super Bee with a 72 340 Demon. He kept beating me by about a couple car lengths, I told him to try it once more because I couldn't seem to get off the line without burning out bad. He said OK and pulled off the road and pulled his hood off. 4 hood pins and a fiberglass 13 lb. hood. remember those? anyways, he was turning a little wing nut that operated the linkage for the other two carbs. He had been running on the center 2 barrel. I experienced a sever case of Mopary right there. God I miss gaining speed uphill.
And that is my limited/distorted meaning of "Mopary"
Peace,
Gordon
And that is my limited/distorted meaning of "Mopary"
Peace,
Gordon
Mopery with Intent to Gouk. A misdemeanor in SE Michigan.
Especially near Detroit.
Especially near Detroit.
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2006
- Messages
- 7,769
- Reaction score
- 7,183
Not that Wiki is the final word:
Mopery is a vague, informal, and usually humorous name for minor offenses. The word is based on the verb to mope, which originally meant "to wander aimlessly"; it only later acquired the overtones of "bored and depressed". The word mope appears to have first been used in the 16th century, and appears in Shakespeare's works.
In 1970, in Columbus, Ohio, mopery was defined as "loitering while walking, or walking down the street with no clear destination or purpose", and was used by police to harass counterculture "hippies" who were regarded as unsavory. Some of those arrested were aggressively prosecuted by public prosecutor Karl T. Chrastan. In discussions of law, "mopery" is used as a placeholder name to mean some crime whose nature is not important to the problem at hand. This is sometimes expanded to "mopery with intent to creep" or "mopery with intent to gawk".
Mopery is a vague, informal, and usually humorous name for minor offenses. The word is based on the verb to mope, which originally meant "to wander aimlessly"; it only later acquired the overtones of "bored and depressed". The word mope appears to have first been used in the 16th century, and appears in Shakespeare's works.
In 1970, in Columbus, Ohio, mopery was defined as "loitering while walking, or walking down the street with no clear destination or purpose", and was used by police to harass counterculture "hippies" who were regarded as unsavory. Some of those arrested were aggressively prosecuted by public prosecutor Karl T. Chrastan. In discussions of law, "mopery" is used as a placeholder name to mean some crime whose nature is not important to the problem at hand. This is sometimes expanded to "mopery with intent to creep" or "mopery with intent to gawk".
m75rlg
US Veteran
Kinda like "Felonious Failure to Do Right"; which can often be pled down to "Misdeameanor Misonmer". 
Alpo
Member
Okay, now that we know what mopery is, what is "maintaining a nuisance"?
sheriffoconee
Member
"Stupid in a NO STUPID zone"
Alk8944
US Veteran
This one works good too!!!!!!!!!!!!
CAJUNLAWYER
Member
Mom used to tell me to stop my "moping"
To be gloomy or dejected.
To brood or sulk.
sure glad I didn't get arrested
To be gloomy or dejected.
To brood or sulk.
sure glad I didn't get arrested
johnsonl
Member
"Mopery with malice aforethought", "Mopery in Public" "Malfesance with extreme prejudice"...
shamelessinct
Member
WR Moore;136133526This is sometimes expanded to "mopery with intent to creep" or "mopery with intent to gawk".[/QUOTE said:
safearm
US Veteran
In its most severe form, it was "Aggravated Mopery with Intent to Gawk." Often used by Northern Illinois lawmen when transporting undesireables to the city limits, where they were met by the next jurisdiction's enforcement agency, and transported to their limits, etc.
Last edited:
