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What responsibility does a museum have to a protestor who glues themself to the wall
<p>Can the museum leave the protestor glued there and leave for the night?</p>
<p>Edit: it appears that 4 days after I posted this questions, a Porsche showroom locked the protestors inside after turning off the lights for the evening.</p>

<p>In the UK, in general, they would have to take reasonable steps to ensure their safety. A museum has to ensure the safety of legitimate visitors, and also trespassers if it can <a href="https://www.insolvencydirect.bis.gov.uk/freedomofinformationtechnical/technicalmanual/ch1-12/chapter8/part7/part_7.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">reasonably foresee a hazard</a> that a trespasser would encounter. However gluing oneself to a wall is not a normal hazard of museums, and anything that followed from that act (e.g. injuring yourself when you collapsed due to lack of sleep) would fall under the &quot;<a href="https://www.blytheliggins.co.uk/an-author-of-your-own-misfortune/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">author of own misfortune</a>&quot; doctrine.</p>
<p>I'm not aware of any specific precedents on point, but the principles above would seem to suggest that once someone has done such a thing, leaving them there would be a legal course of action, although the museum couldn't let them suffer from hunger or thirst (e.g. by leaving them there over a day when the museum is closed, or by preventing friends from bringing food or drink). Also the museum would have to let them try to free themselves, and allow anyone who might help to do so. They would probably have to permit any necessary damage to the property the protester was glued to as well, on the grounds that the protester is more important than the property (although civil and possibly criminal liability for the damage would follow).</p>
