Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"I don't care whether you've filmed here for the last ten years - if you don't move I shall arrest you for wilful obstruction."

While finding out what members of the British public think of bat soup, Esther Rantzen is arrested by PC Herbert, for wilful obstruction of the highway. Was the Police Constable within his rights to arrest her? Esther and Chris Serle look into the 1959 Highways Act, to find out.


Clip taken from That's Life!, originally broadcast on BBC One, 1 February, 1981.





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