It's a wonderful life....

Bloke may or may not have dropped an apple core in the street - he says he didn't, community support officer says he did. Whatever, he refused to give his name and address to the community support officer (which, as far as I am aware is not in itself an offence - and it certainly shouldn't be if you claim you have done nothing wrong). So what happened? Five (count them - five!) policemen turned up to arrest him and take him to the local nick, where he was banged up for 18 hours, during which time his fingerprints and DNA were taken. All this because he refused to give his details - but then, if you maintain you've done nothing wrong (and we do still work on the presumption of innocence, don't we?) why should you? We get closer to a Police State every day.