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TheUrbanMyth
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| bacasper wrote: |
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Well I agree with the man's right to be naked any time he likes in his own home.
But to be fair I think he should make sure then that his windows are not visible from any nearby public roads / walkways and that if they are visible from such areas he should pull the blinds or close the curtain.
Simple. He has the right to be naked but also bears the responsibility to ensure that no-one else who is not on his propery is subjected to his nakedness. |
Why should those who appreciate beholding the naked body be forced to suffer because of some prudish pedestrians? |
However viewing certain naked bodies can be akin to suffering.
MY EYES! MY EYES!
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:30 am Post subject: |
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Someone on another list lives across the street from this guy.
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> You may not believe this, but I live across the street from this man. First of all, don't believe everything you read in the news.
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> There are four men, all about the same age, living in this rental house across the street from me in Springfield (West Springfield, actually) and they've been there since August. The house has a carport and the kitchen is in the front of the house and the kitchen door opens onto the carport.
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> The woman was probably not trespassing. There is a worn dirt path that passes next to the house beside a tennis court, a distance of probably more than 30 yards from the house and farther away than the sidewalk is from the house. I have read different accounts of this incident but I wasn't there and I don't know which to believe. If it was still dark it is easy to see into someone's house and easier still to see someone standing in an open doorway, which one account has it happening. To say they "followed them" through the house is loaded language, however, whatever he did. I also don't know when the police showed up and what they saw. I'm not even sure what time it happened. But I do have a good idea of what "in public view" amounts to and what window shades are there for.
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> I heard about the incident at noon when I was out and the radio people were having a field day with it. When I got home, it was a literal media circus, with two of those radio trucks with extended aerials parked on the street in front of the house and cameras on tripods with newsmen making recordings, none of which I saw. I thought someone had been shot or something but fortunately, it wasn't anything serious.
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> Without commenting on what the man's motivations might have been or what his actual behavior might have amounted to, I don't think it would do a seven-year old boy any harm, but then, it wasn't the boy making a complaint. Unlike some places, the police around here do respond to citizen complaints.
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> I doubt if we'll ever hear how this case turns out but since then they've been keeping the shades down. There's a good view of the house on Bing (maps) but you can't see in the windows. |
OK, so maybe Channel 5 got it wrong, and maybe they weren't trespassing, but that does not change the absurdity of being arrested for nakedness in one's own home. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:07 am Post subject: |
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| There is a worn dirt path that passes next to the house beside a tennis court, a distance of probably more than 30 yards from the house and farther away than the sidewalk is from the house. I have read different accounts of this incident but I wasn't there and I don't know which to believe. If it was still dark it is easy to see into someone's house and easier still to see someone standing in an open doorway, which one account has it happening. |
A dirt path between a tennis court and the house in Springfield or West Springfield VA means that this is not the same as a public street or public sidewalk.
This view is one that a house owner would perceive as being a mostly private bit of nature and not one of public viewing. That is why people like to live in this area in Fairfax County VA.
Finally, at 30 yards, the woman in question must have been trying pretty hard to get a good look at the man's package and she's still the "peeping Mary" in this case. Either she has eagle eyes or the man has quite an impressive package. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: |
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BOULDER, Colo. -- This city has always taken pride in its liberal-to-the-point-of-loony reputation. But this Halloween, one of its wackiest traditions is under siege: the Naked Pumpkin Run.
The event is exactly what its name implies. Scores of men and women pour into downtown streets for a late-night jog, wearing not a stitch between the jack-o'-lanterns on their heads and the sneakers on their feet.
For nearly a decade, naked pumpkin runners did their thing unmolested, stampeding through the frigid dark past crowds of admirers who hooted, hollered and tossed candy. But last year the run attracted more than 150 participants, and Police Chief Mark Beckner fears things are getting out of hand. "It's a free-for-all," he says.
So he intends to stop it.
He will station more than 40 officers on the traditional four-block route tonight, with two SWAT teams patrolling nearby. All have orders to arrest gourd-topped streakers as sex offenders. |
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125693458626119361.html
A bit much. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:33 am Post subject: |
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BOULDER, Colo. -- This city has always taken pride in its liberal-to-the-point-of-loony reputation. But this Halloween, one of its wackiest traditions is under siege: the Naked Pumpkin Run.
The event is exactly what its name implies. Scores of men and women pour into downtown streets for a late-night jog, wearing not a stitch between the jack-o'-lanterns on their heads and the sneakers on their feet.
For nearly a decade, naked pumpkin runners did their thing unmolested, stampeding through the frigid dark past crowds of admirers who hooted, hollered and tossed candy. But last year the run attracted more than 150 participants, and Police Chief Mark Beckner fears things are getting out of hand. "It's a free-for-all," he says.
So he intends to stop it.
He will station more than 40 officers on the traditional four-block route tonight, with two SWAT teams patrolling nearby. All have orders to arrest gourd-topped streakers as sex offenders. |
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125693458626119361.html
A bit much. |
The government of the United States, federal, state and local, is mentally ill. They are suffering from mass psychosis. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:36 am Post subject: |
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In this case, the copper is using the sex offender thing as a hammer. He doesn't respect the impact it will have on people.
And SWAT teams? |
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Reggie
Joined: 21 Sep 2009
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A SWAT team?? Too funny. I wonder if it's the Department of Homeland Security that's doing this. I like how they circle the field and stand guard at college football games to keep frat boys from running out on the field in speedos and clown wigs as their fraternity's hazing ritual.  |
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PIGFACESOUPWITHRICE
Joined: 17 Nov 2009
Location: Electron Cloud
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
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BOULDER, Colo. -- This city has always taken pride in its liberal-to-the-point-of-loony reputation. But this Halloween, one of its wackiest traditions is under siege: the Naked Pumpkin Run.
The event is exactly what its name implies. Scores of men and women pour into downtown streets for a late-night jog, wearing not a stitch between the jack-o'-lanterns on their heads and the sneakers on their feet.
For nearly a decade, naked pumpkin runners did their thing unmolested, stampeding through the frigid dark past crowds of admirers who hooted, hollered and tossed candy. But last year the run attracted more than 150 participants, and Police Chief Mark Beckner fears things are getting out of hand. "It's a free-for-all," he says.
So he intends to stop it.
He will station more than 40 officers on the traditional four-block route tonight, with two SWAT teams patrolling nearby. All have orders to arrest gourd-topped streakers as sex offenders. |
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125693458626119361.html
A bit much. |
An Onion article by any chance? |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
In this case, the copper is using the sex offender thing as a hammer. He doesn't respect the impact it will have on people.
And SWAT teams? |
You had trouble believing that guys peeing outside were ending up on sex offender registries. Maybe not so much anymore.
This could have gone on America's unjust sex laws. |
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