Posted on 01/12/2007 6:43:10 AM PST by Army MP Retired
WATERBURY, Conn. — A criminal defense attorney has been arrested on a disorderly conduct charge involving kissing as a crime.
Ralph Crozier, 55, of Southbury was arrested Thursday for kissing a female judicial marshal at Waterbury Superior Court on Dec. 22.
Crozier said state police investigators told him the marshal did not invite him to kiss her, which was why criminal charges were filed.
"This is the biggest baloney I've ever seen in my life," Crozier said Thursday. "How many tens of thousands of people in Connecticut wished their co-workers and friends 'Merry Christmas' the day before Christmas?"
The incident was captured on security video.
Crozier said the video will prove he meant nothing sexual by the kiss, which he described as a peck on the cheek. He says the incident is an example of political correctness run amok.
"It was a Christmas greeting. I had no intention to annoy or harass anybody," Crozier said. "Every one of us knew we were on camera. This was a peck on the cheek. That was the extent. There was nothing here that was weird or sexual."
The arrest warrant affidavit is sealed until Jan. 24, when Crozier is scheduled to be arraigned at the Waterbury courthouse. He is free on a $10,000 bond.
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On the surface, I'd be inclined to agree. However, I suspect there is more to this story than what we have read so far.
Sounds like a personal grudge. Or perhaps Mr. Crozier, as a criminal defense attorney, is not especially popular with courthouse staff!
I had something similar happen to me...
I was 'friendly' to a secretary I worked with and she complained about being 'sexually harrassed' ...
I talk to her and told her I was just flirting with her because I was interested in her and we were both single-
She dropped the charges, and then asked me to go out with her...
I said no way after what nearly happened to me...
and she tried to have them re-instated and they told her no way-
I think they found a reason to fire her the next year- I think she filed like 12 of these complaints... all unfounded, and took the company to court, and lost...
but all the time and money wasted, and lives almost ruined...
oh... and all the women out there? stop wondering why men are afraid to speak to you
(I mean besides the usual reasons that we are essentially scared to death wimps...)
He just didn't understand the rules. It's OK to do that if you're 25, because then the lady takes it as a compliment. If you do that when you're 55, you're a sexual molester.
Such is Life under Girls' Rules... which are essentially summed up as "girls make all the rules".
It's either "WOW! A new level of pathetic PC BS"! OR "WOW! What a Pig"! I don't think there's any in-between on this one.
I recall kissing one girl at summer camp in Connecticut. Please help with bail if in the three or four decades since, she’s come to regret it, and the statute hasn’t run.
There's no fool like an old fool.
Oh my.
It has truly reached the state of the ridiculous. And I am a female who was in the Army in the early eighties and who attended law school when they were first encouraging women to attend. I have never had any trouble telling a man to drop dead if I wanted him to keep away. Or "hey bud, don't talk that way around me if you know what's good for you." That is all these idiot women have to do. Filing charges is for stupid women.
I guess if he had known he was going to be charged he would have gone for some tongue.
Note to self:
Do not get out of bed tomoorow. It's too dangerous.
Oh... wait... sorry. I'm confusing my fantasy life with reality.
Yes, I won't compliment the way a woman looks at work out of fear of being accused of something inappropriate. I actually had one woman ask me why I never compliment the way she looks. Ask the feminazis...
Amen, sister!!
I agree because this story makes no sense.
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