Legal question?

[monet61]

The really worthless ones, we used to talk about "felony mopery". Bad. Real Bad.

 

[m75rlg]

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.

I've heard of "bus therapy".

A collection is taken up from the on duty officers, and a one way bus ticket is bouught for how ever far the money will go. The problem, who was usually intoxicated, wakes up in another county and out of your hair for however many days it takes him to thumb (for you younger guys, that means hitch hiking on the side of the highway to bum a ride) home.

 

[TienLungTaoist]

Urban dictionary on mopery:

1. mopery
Exposing yourself to a blind man
by Mitch Kumpstein Jan 17, 2003

2. mopery
"indecent exposure in the presence of a blind person of the same sex" is mopery

3. mopery
Loitering while walking. Hanging out in an environ, i.e. a particular block; moving so as to avoid arrest on more traditional loitering charges. Mopery is not a real charge or violation of the law, but a descriptive term, stretching the legalities of loitering, which would include staying in one place.
So you are convicted of mopery, not loitering.
loiter sell drugs hang out wander have a purpose

 

[kraigwy]

Every street cop knows the "mopery" is the formal term for the act of failing the "hello test".

 

[corpulent]

"Exposing yourself to a blind person"
-from Revenge of the Nerds

 

[jlrhiner]

"Creeping With Intent To Lurk."

Bob

OK, now that one got me!

 

[therevjay]

I guess it's the sort of "crime" that gets you put on "Double secret probation" eh?

 

[oldman45]

Mopery is likely also related to mosery. It is a term that was frequently used in the northeast around NY to refer to the Jewish vendors that moved from place to place. Later it came to mean those that wandered around or loitered.

 

[nicky4968]

A lesser included offense of Lurking and Peering in the Dark.

Never been convicted of mopery.

I have pled guilty to persiflage on several occasions.

 

[old bear]

Mopery.., I've heard the term and had a general idea of what was meant by it, but never used it myself. Way back in the good/bad old days we used J.J.F. B.D. "jumping, jiving, fooling in a business district." Until 1978 or so more than one mouth spent a Friday night early Saturday morning in lock-up on those charges.