Mass streaker gets community service

Herald Sun ^ | 4 January 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

A DRUNKEN 18-year-old who streaked through a Christmas Eve mass has been ordered to perform community service at a church.

Shaun Edward Mackley admitted entering the Alice Springs Catholic church naked, running up the aisle and jumping on to the altar during a December 24 mass attended by about 250 worshippers.

Mackley pleaded guilty to disturbing religious worship in the Alice Springs Magistrate Court yesterday.

His lawyer, Russell Goldflam, said the incident was a drunken, spontaneous prank, ABC reported.

Magistrate Michael Carey sentenced Mackley to 200 hours of community service, recommending it be performed in or around the Catholic church.

[Aussie Dasher]

I'm betting the only thing Santa brought this clown was a good belting when the congregation got him outside.

[Feiny]

Streaking has a time & place....church is definitely NOT the place.

[Feiny]

Was this you?

[76834]

Did they catch him by the organ?

[Doogle]

..personally I think streaking should be punished by allowing the streaking to streak a prison yard.

I betcha his times improve.

Doogle

[pissant]

I thought it was YOU!

[infidel29]

Probably making something out of nothing here, but why was this not a "hate crime"?

The idiot didn't run through the local Elks Club, it wasn't a Rotary Club Meeting, it was a Catholic church. It wasn't off hours when the church was empty, it wasn't a run-of-the-mill daily mass, it was Christmas Eve when the church was packed, for maximum effect.

It was a premeditated attack on a congregation of worshippers. The guy meant to do it, planned to do it, thought it out and did it.

200 hours of community service is a joke, the guy got off light.

[Huntress]

Did he look like this guy?

[southernnorthcarolina]

There was a young fellow called Rex
With diminutive organs of sex:
Arraigned for exposure
He said with composure,
"De minimis non curat lex."*

*Latin: "The law is not concerned with trifles."

[Feiny]

Very well could have been except I think I was abducted by aliens that evening.

[gidget7]

""Mackley pleaded guilty to disturbing religious worship in the Alice Springs Magistrate Court yesterday.""



This guy could have brought his homosexual partner and made a spectacle of himself by a long drawn out kiss in front of the Catholic congregation instead. One of MA's demented legislators did just that, and the left put him in office. No arrest.

[Feiny]

Are you two related?

[SALChamps03]

You are bad!

[ladyjane]

organ? What? Hand or mouth organ? oh, pipe organ.

[infidel29]

...and he was only 18, where's the underage drinking charge? Where's the public drunkenness? Trespassing? Indecent exposure? Disorderly conduct?

I recommend a public caning.

[Dashing Dasher]

I wish!

He always posts in that great accent of his!

[Aussie Dasher]

You're not the first to ask that, you know. No.

[pissant]

I thought you were and abductor, not an abductee.

[Dashing Dasher]

Did you say 'organ'?

[Aussie Dasher]

Flattery will get you EVERYWHERE!