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- underdog138, on 10/12/2007, -3/+184Walking naked in my own house past open windows.
*That* will keep those kids off my lawn. - dealsdealer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+154Let's see if a woman gets arrested for that >>>
- radu79, on 10/12/2007, -8/+135How the ***** is it "public" if it's in your own house?
I think they are getting way too far. - thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -4/+106Does this mean peeping toms can get you arrested?
- Dested, on 10/12/2007, -5/+85Honestly, how many of us should be hauled off to jail RIGHT NOW.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+83In my teens, occasionally I'd see my neighbor's girlfriends walk by his bedroom window topless. You can bet I wasn't callnig the po-po.
- homestar14, on 10/12/2007, -5/+73This is absurd.
Unless he was pushing his penis up against the window, there are no grounds for this. - Al3x, on 10/12/2007, -18/+77What I want to know is how these like 3 line articles get front page. I mean, the story is basically in the description...no digg
Oh, and my guess is the 43 yr old guy was standing at his window flopping his meat around at like some kids or something. Not just...walking naked. - adjustafresh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+58This is what journalism has come to? The article is maybe one-hundred words and we're all jumping to conclusions. Maybe there were children playing outside and he was standing nude in the window watching them? Maybe neighbors complained because he stands nude in the windows often?
I seriously doubt the guy was just non-chalantly strolling past the window and the SWAT team broke the door down to throw him in jail. There's more to the story than we're being told. - friend18, on 10/12/2007, -14/+63And your dick caught in the window. giggity
- PixelVision, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51in the old days, the person watching people through their windows would go to jail.
- anasazi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40why is this in the Science -> Environment topic?
- Yez70, on 10/12/2007, -7/+44Ummmmm, ok.
So I guess this means being naked in front of a webcam is public indecency too? - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39"The article is maybe one-hundred words and we're all jumping to conclusions"
Actually, the article has 44 words.
Three sentences of content and the rest of the page is ads. God Bless America! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33you could have just linked to about:blank, and posted the entire 2 sentence article as the summary
- MoonDogAFO, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31I used to work for the mayor of a small city in New York State. My job was to field complaints from the citizenry - especially when the person felt that they were getting nowhere with the department the the complaint involved. Towards the end of my employment, I had to deal with exactly this situation. It went like this:
An older gentleman living in a section of the city that was becoming "marginal" had some neighbors move in who could be thought of as "undesireable" He took care of his home and property, while these people couldn't be bothered to mow without a citation from the city. So, this guy already had issues with his neighbors.
On top of this, there were no curtains on any of the 1st floor windows. This lead to the homeowner calling our housing department and insisting that the people should be cited for violations of the housing code. Problem was, they weren't violating code. So then he contacted the police department, claiming that he and his elderly mother (who lived with him) were contstantly being subjected to his neighbors walking around their house in various stages of nudity. The police told him that his neighbors were free to walk around in their home nude if they so wished.
Here is where I cam in. The guy, rebuffed by 2 city departments, calls for the Mayor. People always would assume that the mayor was just sitting there waiting to meet with people, instead of running a city. So this guy got pissed when I told him that I would have to handle the issue, since the mayor wasn't available. He told me his story, which I related to our Associate Corporation Counsel.
Counsel though that this was one of the funniest things ever! There was no way that the city could prosecute someone for being nude in their home, and he was very curious as to why the man and his elderly mother were always looking into the neighbors home. I mean, these people knew intimate details of their neighbors routine: times, what they wore (or didn't wear), what they were doing, etc. Counsel wodenred why they didn't just turn away when confronted with their neighbors state of undress.
I told the guy we could do nothing,. and he freaked. Started swearing, threated to sue me, the Mayor, the city, etc. Typical day for that job! Moral of the story: if you don't seeing what your neighbor is doing in his own home, put up some curtains or stop looking! - whosyodanny, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Please refrain from using the term peeping tom... the correct term is now police informant...
I guess this gives a whole new meaning to the term neighborhood watch... - tripm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29@LucianSolaris,
It was consensual - and we're in love. - Aesculapius, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24I am completely naked....
...under my clothes. - xutopia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Only in the USA! :-D
- woman too fat to know she's pregnant
- some person suing McDonalds for being too fat
- woman who cuts off her man's penis
- a guy dressed as Bin Laden on Halloween gets arrested for scaring people with a plastic gun
- man gets arrested for being naked inside his home
Why don't we see as much funny stuff from other countries? - Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Maybe if he were like doing a show in front of the window for the neighborhood I would get upset. But if hes got a snoopy neighbor thats peeping into his windows then I think they should be the ones arrested.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+24"I can CHARGE that you raped my sister even though you didn't, but that doesn't mean you were CONVICTED of it."
In this day and age, there is no difference. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18"public indecency" - unless he was hanging out of a window naked it's hardly public, as surely one's home is private?
And who is the one saying it's "indecent", surely that's a very subjective claim. This is a joke. - UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16At least as many funny things happen in other countries. A guy ran off the road and in to a freestanding toilet in Germany because his navigation system mistakenly told him to turn right.
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I'm vomiting now, out my windows, which are not open. Whoops.
- TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13What's in the water over there in Ohio? Wasn't this in the same area of Ohio where the attorney for the city prosecutor was busted wandering around the county office building after hours butt-naked?
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Maybe he had a sign outside the window that says "Get it here"
- Wolfie351, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13We're just giving more reasons for Europe to laugh at us. Amazes me you can show some guys head being blow off on tv, yet bare skin gets everyone up tight
- BillDoE, on 10/12/2007, -15/+26@radu79
"How the ***** is it "public" if it's in your own house?
I think they are getting way too far."
It's called "In Plain Sight." Same reason they don't need a warrant if they see you smoking weed through the the window. - axiomflash, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15the laws vary from state to state. ignore the headline of thios article. some states you can do anything indecent even if the neighbors can see, some states it is illegal.
- jon3k, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Because no one cares what goes on in other countries. The USA is under a microscope. We have the largest media and we're one of, if not THE, most powerful nation(s) on the planet.
- zediker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12There was a similar case like this a few years back, the man got off (NO PUN INTENDED).
- LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I don't want to see naked ugly people as much as the next person but I *FIRMLY* believe that nudity should never be a crime. Public sex is possibly a public health concern but I don't believe we should be fined for walking in what we were born with.
Want to cycle nude? Your choice to do it, my choice tolook away or not. Nudity in and of itself is *NEVER* harmful. It does not scar children unless you raise them to consider nudity horrible.
God nudity laws bother the hell out of me. I'm no nudist but I have a good understanding of write and wrong... - dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16If this was a woman.
No one would have complained.
:) - KnightWhoSaysNi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@bemenaker
The word is "flagrantly". - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11So three sentences count as an article nowadays? Is it just me, or are journalists getting lazy?
- CraigJ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I don't know, THere are women in my neighborhood I don't want to see nude. Not after a meal anyway...
- mdmadph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9no wonder we're falling behind the rest of world when it comes to science -- our science textbooks are apparently full of pictures of naked men.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17"there are no grounds for this."
Yes there are. America is, for the most part, a Puritan society run by Puritan laws. You may be from an urban area, but most of America is not urban. On average, this country is the most conservative nation in the entire Western world, and rivals even many third world regimes. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11They don't mention that he was masturbating at the time...
- sokz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8What's with articles with 2 lines of text getting front paged? Normally I'd never complain, but are you people just reading the title and laughing, and then hitting digg? Sigh..
- Scruffydan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8people are such prudes.
- Tybee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Eh, whoever reported him was probably jealous.
- rusty075, on 10/12/2007, -2/+81. This is not "environment", unless his junk was so ugly that the mere site of it killed passing birds.
2. People get arrested for public indecency while inside their own homes all the time, so this isn't even "news". Generally, you have to be doing it repeatedly, and intentionally when you know other people are watching. Usually people who get picked up for this aren't just walking by the window, they're usually caught standing in front of the window jerkin' the gerkin'. - nakedlobo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6A man receiving a sentence of a fine is still a conviction... and the guy will probably have to register as a sex offender...
I am really suprised that no one has brought up that possibility. This guy could receive all kinds of reprocussions from this.
(BTW I was unable to read the article due to firewall) - dadioflex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@bemenaker - in fact if you were watching your female neighbour wandering around her house naked you would be charged, not her. This is just sexual discrimination. Personally I walk around my home naked most of the time and in the 6 years I've been here my neighbours haven't complained once. Not one of my 43 new neighbours.
- Pattyo13, on 05/14/2009, -1/+6how do you know - were you watching?
- converge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7dugg for the first correct spelling of that word on digg.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I have two large windows that face the street where I live. It affords a really good view into my apt in the nighttime hours. I'm often careful about how I'm dressed when I walk around if the blinds are open. Let us be realistic, yes it is your home but you're also exposing everyone to what is going on. Some discretion is called for.
- GhostToon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6They like to put these kind of stories inbetween the mass murder and arrsen stories. You know to kind of lighten the mood.
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