Loitering what does it mean?

What does it mean?
I mean today at the park it had a sign saying,

No Loitering After Dark ..

What does it mean?

Aha Awhie. I feel stupid:P
Since people are writing all that stuff about littering..
I know what littering is! Haha
lmfao, zofiagroppi420:P
Anyways thanks everyone!
I guess I can now explain it to my friends so I'm the one looking smart(H).
Haha I'm just joking. Thank you

Loitering is another word for standing around doing nothing. To be used in a sentence

Oh yeah. We're so cool - we can loiter at banks!

Popular places to have no loitering signs are parking lots, banks, parks, plazas, and office buildings.

Don't feel bad, hen I first saw one ten years ago I thought they spelled littering wrong...

Meaning to stand idly, to stop numerous times, or to delay and procrastinate.

Oh okay:P
Another questions,
whats so bad about standing around at night?

Nothing. It's our governments asss-backwards way of projecting their views that if teenagers stay in one public spot for too long, they MUST be either committing acts of vandalism or debauchery.

Okay now thats stupid..
Whenever we need laws that can actually help the society and everything it NEVER happens, yet we have all these stupid ones...

It is not exactly stupid. It does do a lot to help with crimes. Stopping people (not just teens) from standing in front of places, I think is a good idea.

If you worked at a gas station or grocery store would you want people standing in front of it?
Also with parks. If you lived close to one and you looked out your window and seen a bunch of people...say...across the street standing around at night wouldn't you be a little un-easy?

I've seen those signs in front of businesses mostly, though, not recently. I can understand why a business wouldn't want people standing around outside and in front, like at the front door, where customers would have to pass them to go inside. It may give them an uneasy feeling and it would just look bad, unless, maybe, if it was a pool room or game room, something like that where you expect kids to be.

It doesn't exclude any age group, true, but it is mainly directed at teens. One time I was at Battery Park at night chilling with my friend Chelsea, and there was this elderly couple down the street playing chess in the moonlight, and I thought it was so romantic until a parkworker in an orange vest came over and told US to break it up and keep it moving. Unfair, don't you think?

And your example is just plain retarded, babygirl2345, because if you worked at a gas station and people where always standing around it, don't you think it would be good for business to have a crowd, a main attraction for the town?

And not all people are as terrified of other people as you. Your just way too sheltered. I live in Manhattan, so people are constantly walking and sitting down where I live. And incidentally, I don't live in the ghetto area either, I live in the Financial District. When I come home every day from work I see at least one person sitting on my stoop, since I'm in the 9/11 Tourist area. I don't bother them. They never scare me one bit.

You want to know what I am scared of though? The government's ability to make pointless laws AND THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THESE LAWS.

Grow up zofiagroppi420! It is a law for a reason. Obviously, people standing around places didn't work out! Hum, I don't know...maby because of robberys and murder. I don't know, just a guess. Oh, but I bet you know why. Sorry...you don't like the law, but tuff sh*t.

Did you seriously just tell me to grow up, and then express an ignorant opinion?
Laws are there all the time for no reason. I don't think that you quite grasp the concept that the government is able to pass whatever law that they select, and just because it's there, doesn't mean its right.

And let me copy and paste one of the last posts I made, since obviously your thick skull is incapable of handling it all at one time.

It's our governments asss-backwards way of projecting their views that if teenagers stay in one public spot for too long, they MUST be either committing acts of vandalism or debauchery.

You just proved MY point by attempting to prove yours. You said:

Obviously, people standing around places didn't work out! Hum, I don't know...maby because of robberys and murder. I don't know, just a guess.

And the fact that I don't like the law, you have no RIGHT to comment on. Because although it's freedom of speech (what I'm exercising, expressing my discontent) your violating freedom of speech. You have the right to express whatever you want, as long as it does not infringe on any one else's rights (tuff shxt)
See below .
Various exceptions to free speech have been recognized in American law, including obscenity, defamation, breach of the peace, incitement to crime, fighting words, and sedition.

I was not implying that I could do anything to change those laws, I understand that's not my place. I was merely expressing my disagreement with them.

Therefore, fxck you. It's ignorant pieces of shxt like you who think that every one should just 'shut up and take it' that make us enslaved citizens to this day.

DONT THROW TRASH ON THE GROUND

^question above me, lmao.
that's LITTERING sweetie.
LOITERING is described above.
its alright, we all have those days.

No problem, here to help :]
and yeah. Definitely fake a british accent while explaining this concept to your friends, and a monocle. A monocle always helps. It's like, you just look at a person with a monocle and go,
Wow! That looks like a really smart kid!

AHA THANX THATS what I THOUGHT IT MENT.

Haha!
Awwhieee I Luv you Baby Girl(L)