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Bill targets predators at carnivals
Gazette.Net ^ | 3-29-07 | Sherry Greenfield

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.net ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: carnivals; pedophiles; sexoffenders
Shame a bill like this is necessary. I'll be surprised if it passes, it is Maryland we're talking about.
1 posted on 03/30/2007 11:30:44 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: JZelle

Hey, what would carnivals be without the sleazy, stump-toothed, tattooed parolees running the rides?

(;>)


2 posted on 03/30/2007 11:35:38 AM PDT by Argus
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To: JZelle

Seems like a no brainer to me. Which is why the 'rats and the ACLU will fight it tooth and nail.


3 posted on 03/30/2007 11:35:40 AM PDT by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: Argus

Free?


4 posted on 03/30/2007 11:37:34 AM PDT by JohnnyZ ("I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose" -- Mitt Romney, April 2002)
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To: JZelle

Kinko the Clown will be saddened.


5 posted on 03/30/2007 11:41:24 AM PDT by flying Elvis ("In...War, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst" Clausewitz.)
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To: Argus
Hey, what would carnivals be without the sleazy, stump-toothed, tattooed parolees running the rides?

They'de get illegal alien sleazy, stump-toothed tattooed parolees who can't speak English.

6 posted on 03/30/2007 11:45:09 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: flying Elvis
Kinko, Kinko, the kid-loving clown
if the kids just love me back I'll never wear a frown
Kinko, Kinko, the kid loving clown
if the kids just love me back I'll never wear a frown!!!
Kinko's in his Kinko car, pockets full of change
lots of dirty pictures and sticky candy canes.
All the kids love Kinko for the presents that they get
silly leather clothes to wear and happy cigaretts.

(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!

7 posted on 03/30/2007 11:52:05 AM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=-
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To: JZelle

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.


8 posted on 03/30/2007 12:41:01 PM PDT by twigs
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To: twigs

Wow, that's unsavory!!


9 posted on 03/30/2007 12:46:30 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: JZelle

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.


10 posted on 03/30/2007 12:48:37 PM PDT by twigs
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To: JZelle

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.


11 posted on 03/30/2007 12:51:14 PM PDT by eleni121 ( + En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great))
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To: JZelle

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.


12 posted on 03/30/2007 12:53:19 PM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: twigs

Yikes. I bet if we had a thread devoted to deviant behavior at the carnival, Mr. JimRob would need a whole new server.


13 posted on 03/30/2007 12:55:40 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: American_Centurion

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.


14 posted on 03/30/2007 12:59:06 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: rabidralph

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.


15 posted on 03/30/2007 1:03:50 PM PDT by twigs
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To: JZelle

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.


16 posted on 03/30/2007 1:04:48 PM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: American_Centurion

"imprison them", that's what it always comes down to, and because they're not in jail we end up writing laws like these.


17 posted on 03/30/2007 1:16:54 PM PDT by JZelle
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