Farmer busted after delivering hogtied teen and twentysomthing trespassers to the police station on his quad bike

[danimagoo]

@L0ki

It is a thing but actually doing it without tipping over into false imprisonment is so difficult that the best advice is " If you’re thinking about whether to perform a citizen’s arrest, don’t".

Generally speaking, anyone talking about performing a citizen’s arrest is a good sign that they are an arsehole with authoritarian fantasies.

Absolutely. You could probably argue that Shopkeeper’s Privilege, which allows stores to detain suspected shoplifters until the police arrive, is a form of citizen’s arrest, though. That would be the most common legitimate use of it, if you consider that to be a type of citizen’s arrest.