The Fight for Spandy
A few visitors from California were down at English Bay the day I was threatened and given tickets by the police. Nina actually captured part of the encounter on her digital camera and then sent it to me. Thank you so much Nina. Check out the video:
So after this happened I got worried. How can I continue to spread smiles and dance at English Bay with authorities like this? I had to fight back the only way possible, through dance/protest, lol. I quickly organized a Spandy Rally at English Bay and mobilized the troops.
The cops showed up a couple hours into the protest. They were welcomed with a loud Spandy chant. I had never seen these cops before. They asked me for my permit. After grabbing my permit from my bag and handing it to the cops, they read one of the rules on the back which states I must move my show every 60 minutes. I asked if I could move to another part of English Bay and they said, “YES!”.
The team packed up our stuff and moved down the path and continued the show. I am happy with that. 
Still interesting that I have to move down the bay, but if that is all I have to do, that is perfect. No tickets, no park rangers, no problems.
Thank you so much everyone who came out and to all my supporters. I am going to continue to perform at English Bay now that the cops confirmed it’s ok, as long as I move every 60 minutes.
As for the tickets… I’ll see you in court. 
The people have the power,
SpandyAndy
July 20th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
aha omg Spandy Andy you are my hero. I was down in Vancouver a couple weeks ago at the beach and then you came and started dancing. Me and my aunt had soooo much fun. You’re so awesome! Hahaha
September 20th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Trespassing on a public beach? You should ask him under what law he intends on going about that with. Trespass at Night would require that you be “lurking” on private property at night…nope, not that one. Assault by Trespass would mean that he’d ask you to leave property for which he is legally authorized to ask you to leave from (A public beach? Maybe with some kind of court order or you can have a field day with your Charter of Rights) upon which if you resisted, he could then attempt to physically escort you from the property where if you resist further he can then get you with assault by trespass. Other than that, I’m not aware of any law by which he can charge you with trespassing, let alone on property that you’re as entitled to remove him from as he is you, so long as you’re not breaking the law.