Message from discussion Bike love gone wrong

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From:  BT Humble <bt_hum...@bigpond.com>
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Subject: Re: Bike love gone wrong
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:24:00 -0700
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Travis wrote:
> On Oct 28, 10:52 am, Terryc <newsthreespam-s...@woa.com.au> wrote:
>
> > cfsmtb wrote:
> > > OMGWTFBBQ
>
> > >http://tinyurl.com/35mzyo
>
> > > Actually the most disturbing detail is the articles final sentence, it
> > > sounds like a unfinished sketch from Little Britain.
>
> > the thing that really concerns me is the debashment of the "Sex
> > Offenders List". I thought this was a list of people who could be
> > considered a danger to other peope. It seems to have become (over there)
> > a list of people who do not have poltically correct sex. Is it the same
> > here?
>
> I was thinking that too.  What consenting adults do together or when
> alone in their room behind locked doors should never be a concern of
> the state.  The charge would seem wholly appropriate if he was doing
> it in public place or with a minor or in any way that would cause
> physical or psychological harm to anyone else, but the facts of the
> case are that some guy was caught with his pants down alone in his
> room with the door locked, by a couple of cleaners who entered using a
> master key.  Terribly embarrassing I'm sure, but hardly a threat to
> society and clearly not with the intent to harm anyone else.
>
> Travis

Do you reckon they would have charged him if he'd merely been engaged
in a bit of old-fashioned Onanism?

Regardless, when he gets sentenced I expect he's looking at a stiff
penal stretch.


BTH