Posted on 03/30/2007 11:30:43 AM PDT by JZelle
Sen. David R. Brinkley has proposed legislation to the Maryland General Assembly that would ban registered sex offenders from working at area fairs and carnivals.
Brinkley (R), who represents both Carroll and Frederick counties, said Senate Bill 337 is a result of a story published in The Gazette last September exposing a registered sex offender working the rides at The Great Frederick Fair.
‘‘A constituent called me and said ‘Why isn’t this illegal,’” Brinkley said. ‘‘So we sent a letter to the secretary of Labor and Licensing and he said they have no control over it, they just have control over the safety of the rides. So therefore, I put the bill in.”
The legislation would not only prohibit registered sex offenders from working at fairs and carnivals, but also establish penalties against the event’s owner or operator if they knowingly hired a register sex offender.
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Hey, what would carnivals be without the sleazy, stump-toothed, tattooed parolees running the rides?
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Seems like a no brainer to me. Which is why the 'rats and the ACLU will fight it tooth and nail.
Free?
Kinko the Clown will be saddened.
They'de get illegal alien sleazy, stump-toothed tattooed parolees who can't speak English.
(Next part is spoken dialogue)
-Hi boys and girls, my name is Kinko the clown!!!
-Hi Kinko!!!
-And I really love you boys and girls!!!
Really, really....
-Awwww
-But my legs get tired standing out in the parking lot handing out
stale tootsie rolls to you rugrats, so if anyone wants to come back to Kinko's trailer and massage his legs, he'd really really like it.
Really, really.....
The irony is that when I was a kid and heard this on Dr. Demento every week, I thought it was the funniest thing in the world. Now, not so much!
I ran rides at an amusement park when I was a teenager. I needed protection from the patrons. My working colleagues laughed themselves silly when a business man dropped his key beside me one night. I ran after him to return it, not getting the picture. It works both ways.
Wow, that's unsavory!!
That's only one of the stories. Patrons used to come there to pick up the employees. I was extremely naive of the world's ways before I worked there. It opened my eyes a bit.
I'm sure the ACLUnies will take it to court and have it declared unconstitutional based upon the fact that it discriminates against convicted sex predators.
Why don't they just make a bill that prevents registered sex offenders from working at all, put them on welfare, and restrict them to living together in a dormitory?
Oh, that would be a lot like prison. If you want them in prison, keep them there, if you want them to have jobs and participate in society, let them. I can understand restrictions on jobs like daycare and teaching, but running a carnival ride is really reaching IMO.
Yikes. I bet if we had a thread devoted to deviant behavior at the carnival, Mr. JimRob would need a whole new server.
It's not reaching. Some of these dudes try to cop a feel when they're strapping Junior into the ride. I mean they're already supposed to stay away from schools, so I think carnivals make sense.
Probably! I stay away from them, but for a different reason. I've seen the problems and don't really like to ride rides any more. Most are safe, but the ones which aren't really aren't. It only takes once.
I'm sure that if we try we can come up with a whole crapload of jobs they shouldn't do that "make sense".
What makes you think that, non-registered sex offenders, or never caught/convicted sex offenders aren't already there?
Why not just make a law to prevent every single possible thing that could concievable cause harm to anyone? Because it's STUPID, that's why. So is this. If you want to control everything they do for the rest of their lives, imprison them.
"imprison them", that's what it always comes down to, and because they're not in jail we end up writing laws like these.
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