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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Naked coffee guy has been acquitted.
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Good to the last drip.
Maybe he can be a spokesman for Folger’s, “The best part of waking up is being naked in your hut”.
i’ll bet what really happened is that the librarian saw something and the lady talked to the librarian at the school and got the bright idea to corroborate her story.
I still have trouble understanding this whole problem with nudity. Other than the puritan legal problems, I just don’t care who I see naked (unless it is some really hot chick) or who sees me naked.
I don’t understand the case. How do you get convicted, appeal your case, and then get acquitted by a jury? Did the crack journalists leave out some important legal steps or did I miss something?
“I don’t understand the case. How do you get convicted, appeal your case, and then get acquitted by a jury? ”
Im wondering the same thing.
“I don’t understand the case. How do you get convicted, appeal your case, and then get acquitted by a jury?”
In many if not most states in the U.S., minor (non-felonies) are first presented to courts where full trial rights (juries, certain discovery processes, etc.) are not allowed. If a person is found guilty in these courts, then they can usually appeal to the regular court (court of general jurisdiction), where the case is tried again. This is a good system for the accused as it gives them a second chance for acquittal. If they are found not guilty at the lower court, the prosecution cannot appeal.
Woo hoo! Hey buddy, is yours a grande or a tall?
Wasn’t the woman waking the kid the wife of one of the cops involved?
it’d be nice if he could recover his legal fees from the knuckleheads who caused this headache…
Aresen “Good to the last drip.”
rofl damn Aresen you’re on a roll today.
Great, another criminal let back out on the street! I mean, back out to his kitchen. Inside. Hmm.
If we don’t have the choice to brew our coffee with the fresh scent of ball sweat in the air, then damnit, we’re not in America anymore. Thanks for brightening our day, Naked Coffee Guy.
Sprinkled among the important posts about creeping fascism are these little tidbits. Radley posts these items, and we know he think it’s fine for a sleazoid like coffee guy to get off on flashing a mom and her son. Radley will probably post a rely saying “I didn’t say I approved”. This is why ‘libertarians’ can’t make any headway.
Before everybody goes freedom wild over naked coffee guy, chances are he’s a scumbag.
Radley posts these items, and we know he think it’s fine for a sleazoid like coffee guy to get off on flashing a mom and her son. Radley will probably post a rely saying “I didn’t say I approved”. This is why ‘libertarians’ can’t make any headway.
Well then let me just say unequivocally that I’m joyed to hear he was acquitted, and I think it was an absurd overreaction for the police to forcibly enter this man’s house and arrest him for the non-crime of being naked in his own home. And sorry, but there was no evidence that he was “getting off on flashing a mom and her son.”
@Roark: But having a man arrested for being nude in his own home is a pretty damn good example of “creeping fascism”. We don’t have to secretly fantasize about Folgers au Natural to believe that charging this man with a crime would be an improper use of our justice system.
“Before everybody goes freedom wild over naked coffee guy, chances are he’s a scumbag.”
I don’t care if he stood at midnight in the middle of his window with spotlights pointed on himself while he was fellated by a gang of circus clowns. He was inside, at home and so any prosecution of his behavior is immoral. The bigger scumbags here are the prosecution. As usual.
The librarian should be charged with misuse of 911. What kind of an emergency is posed by a possible indecent exposure?
#19
let me first state that i completely agree that this was absurd and the guy should have been left alone, regardless of whether he knew anyone saw him or not.
in my town, though, 911 is the only option for getting the police on the phone – emergency or not. i don’t know how many other places are like this, but it’s possible that this is one of them.
@wunder: Same here outside of normal office hours. I had to call 911 once for a parking lot accident that happened at about 0.5 mph.
Wait a minute. A woman is so sensitive about male nudity in front of her child that she gives the guy the finger? If you’re gonna be puritanical, at least be consistent.
Wunder, Rhayader,
I bet if you post your town, I can find the admin line for your local pd’s.
“I bet if you post your town, I can find the admin line for your local pd’s.”
In my town, knowing the admin # wouldn’t matter, as no one would be there to answer the phone. After 5 p.m., the police and fire are dispatched from an offsite central dispatcher for many towns.
Wunder, Rhayader,
I bet if you post your town, I can find the admin line for your local pd’s.
Maybe. I think my situation is about what Carl describes in #24 though. In fact, IIRC, when I had my accident I went online to find the PD number, which I called. I was then directed by an automated message to call 911 if I needed to contact the police.
Ah, here we go. Took me a moment to find.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/indecent-exposure-in-home-121809
Yvette Dean says she and her son were walking on this path. She says she first saw Williamson over there at the door by the carport. She says they then walked down the path and she saw him again at the front window.
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Dean, the wife of a Fairfax County Police officer, told Fox 5 she is pleased with the conviction, but didn’t want to say anything else.
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Well, there you go.
-Wunder, Rhayader,
I bet if you post your town, I can find the admin line for your local pd’s.-
What Rhayader said, except that my situation (car broken into in my driveway – awesome) was during business hours and the police department still told me to call 911.
I’m guessing it has to do with allocating resources, which makes some sense. I does seem easier to have everyone going through one distribution point for a single set of resources – as long as there are enough 911 operators to answer all calls.
Seriously, this is good news for freedom-lovers and bad news for the Mrs Grundy’s of the world.