Posted on 06/30/2020 3:33:14 PM PDT by lightman
Harrisburg’s finance director has been suspended after a neighbor snapped a photo of him gardening in the nude and called police to complain.
Bruce Weber is suspended pending the outcome of a police investigation.
The neighbor, ShaVonne Moon, posted a photo Friday on Facebook of her naked neighbor, bent over, pulling weeds in his backyard garden on Boas Street . She complained on her social media post that she’s “sick of it,” and had to keep her young sons away from her home’s windows and backyard to avoid seeing the naked man outside.
Weber confirmed Sunday that it was him in the photograph, but he did not wish to comment at that time. When reached for comment again on Tuesday, he said he would call back but did not.
Moon didn’t post her neighbor’s name, only his initials and that he was a city official, but the post spurred a lot of commentary and condemnation, with many people eventually figuring out her neighbor is Weber.
Moon said it was the second time she has seen Weber outside without clothes and said she reported both instances to police. But Mayor Eric Papenfuse said the city only has one record of a police call and it was placed Friday, the same day Moon posted her photo.
Bruce Weber gardening ShaVonne Moon took this photo from her window, which overlooks the backyard of the city's Finance Director Bruce Weber. She strategically placed the clown face emoji over the photo before posting it to Facebook.
“This is being handled as an employment matter,” Papenfuse said. “The incident has been referred to Dauphin County (detectives) for investigation and Mr. Weber has been suspended pending the results of that investigation.”
Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo confirmed his office was investigating for any possible crimes.
The state has a law against “indecent exposure,” which according to statutes involves someone exposing “his or her genitals in any public place or in any place where there are present other persons under circumstances in which he or she knows or should know that this conduct is likely to offend, affront or alarm.”
The crime is typically a second-degree misdemeanor but could be a first-degree misdemeanor “if the person knows or should have known that any of the persons present are less than 16 years of age.”
The state also has a law against open lewdness, a third-degree misdemeanor, which involves “any lewd act which he knows is likely to be observed by others who would be affronted or alarmed.”
Weber’s backyard appears to be fairly private and secluded for its Midtown location, but it still can be seen from Moon’s backyard and from an adjacent parking lot.
There is also a small alley that runs between Boas and Herr streets, which cuts between both of their yards. A person walking down either Boas or Herr streets, however, could not see Weber’s backyard.
Harrisburg police spokesman Sgt. Kyle Gautsch said Tuesday: “There was a complaint made and it is under investigation at this time.”
Since the case is under investigation, Gautsch said he could not release any more details.
Moon told PennLive through Facebook messages that other neighbors warned her that she may see a fully naked man in the backyard, but she didn’t see him until recently, when she took the photos. Her sons are 6 and 2. Moon said she rearranged her older son’s room to block his window.
Weber has been working as the city’s Finance Director since 2014, when Papenfuse was first elected. His annual salary, according to the 2020 approved budget, is $81,200.
“That photo sure doesn’t look like it was taken from a
second floor window, it’s ground level.”
Why would you think it was a second floor window. Most likely not ground level.
hahaha same thought here...
Maybe he does, and just has better privacy fence, so only the female Secret Service agents have to see him
There were from all over the place, all told in the first person.
There was one story I really liked...
There were two police officers in a cruiser who got sent to a house with a complaint that the woman's neighbor was exposing himself to her. When the cops got there, it was a little old lady, and she said a middle aged man living in the house next to her was parading back and forth in front of open windows with no clothes on.
The officers asked to see where the guy was exposing himself, so the lady took them into the room that faced the guy's house. They looked out the window, but saw a six foot high solid wood fence that completely obscured the first floor of the guy's house. They could barely even see the tops of the windows. One of the officers said something like "Ma'am, I can't even see the windows, how on earth could the guy be exposing himself?
The little elderly lady let out an exasperated huff, climbed on a chair, looked towards the neighbor's house and said "Look! Look! He's doing it right now!"
There was a companion book about military stories, which was pretty good. I wish I could remember the names of those books!
She's being homophobic.
Oh, I’m bein’ followed by a moonshadow, moon shadow, moonshadow-—
leapin and hoppin’ on a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c49aDWrzeA
“When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie....that’s amore!”
I heard a person once who took pictures of people through their windows. He said if he ever got caught, he was going to say he was collecting evidence to get the people arrested for the anti-nudity laws.
LOL!!!!
What’s the problem.... I’m sure the guy has seen women with clothes on before.
Well...I don’t garden nude, but in my underwear...but then again we have five acres that is secluded and several acres away from the nearest house—did I mention tree lines too?
Kinda refreshing to go out on a summer morning in skivvies, garden hose in hand watering the corn, lettuce, tomatoes, beans and all the other veggies...
MOON GOT MOONED!! Gawd the horror!!
When I finally get around to writing mine, it’s going to be titled, “Sergeant Major, I swear to God I’m not making this sh#t up!”
Which is how one of my First Sergeants started the phone call telling me one of his heroes had been invited to appear on Maury Povich’s “Who’s the Daddy” show. I asked him why his knucklehead would put his laundry in the street like that, and he said that he had asked that very question. The answer was “Well, Top, they gonna give me a trip to New York, a ride in a limo, a night in a hotel, and a hundred dollars. If it turns out it’s mine, I’ll give her 75 of it for diapers and sh#!”
No lie.
Don’t look Ethel!!
See, that is why you live in the country.
Not saying I have done it, but I do sometimes water the tomatoes
Harvest Moon
About mid nite last week my wife reminded me that I forgot to take the trash to the street.
I got up and started to head out wearing just underwear and a T shirt.
I was halfway out the door when I realized my neighbor was outside talking with someone. A police officer.
Yea, that would have gone over well.
Sometimes, reality jokes harder than you can.
Bamboo
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