Can we all get a life, for crying out loud? There are roses to be smelled, if one isn’t attracted to a scene or site, LOOK AWAY, babe! Take your child to a park and stop peeping into people’s houses!

Woman calls police: “My neighbors are fornicating in plain view!”
Cop arrives. “Well, ma’am, can you show me what’s going on?”
They go into the backyard. “Right over there,” she says, “just look.”
Right over there is an 8-foot tall brick wall.

“Ma’am, there’s a wall there.”

“Sure there is, but you can see them plain as day if you use that ladder.”

Uh, what Fluffy said.

If a cop were arrested and charged for walking around naked in his own home, I’d be the first one to call BS on the charges.

That is obvious.

“there is also an important issue of the extent to which the state may intrude into a person’s house and the private behavior in the house.”

Assuming the testimony is true (and do we have any reason to doubt it?) then this fellow deliberatly exposed himself at the front door to a child. That’s not private.

“Personally, I don’t care if the guy was standing right in his front window jerking off. Sex and nudity aren’t something you send someone to prison for” True perhaps, but then your beef is with the law, not the conviction.

Lastly, we all KNOW that if this guy had been a cop you all would, like RadleY, presume him guilty, not innocent.

There’s a vendetta going on here.

Some neighbor didn’t like this guy and concocted this scheme for getting back at him.

I mean, don’t we all know that if there’s someone in the neighborhood we don’t like and can’t seem to do anything about, all we have to do to ruin their life is call CPS if they have kids? This is the same flavor.

I am mentally running down a list of my neighbors and I can’t believe I’ve done anything to any of them where they’d call the police if they spotted me naked.

Moral of the story: be nice to your neighbors — not because they hold the power of life and death over you, but just because it’s the right thing to do.

I don’t think it’s legitimate to take someone from their home and family and send them to prison for merely offending someone. Prison should be reserved for those who have inflicted an identifiable injury on someone else. Of course, these days, when enforcing cultural conformity is a primary function of democracy, painting your house the wrong color or not cutting your grass constitutes an injury to most people.

See Ionesco, Eugene