Posted on 12/29/2007 6:53:12 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan
Robin Garrison, an off-duty 42-year-old firefighter, was walking in Berliner Park in Columbus, Ohio, in May when he saw a woman sunbathing topless under a tree.
He approached her and they started talking and getting comfortable, the woman smiling and resting her foot on his shoulder at one point.
Eventually, she asked to see Garrison's penis; he unzipped his pants and complied.
Seconds later, undercover police officers pulled up in a van and arrested Garrison; he was later charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor, based on video footage taken by cops who were targeting men having sex or masturbating in the park. While topless sunbathing is legal in the city's parks, exposing more than that is against the law.
The case is just one of the more extreme examples of police stings aimed at luring people into committing crimes, a tactic that has resulted in hundreds of arrests, many convictions and plenty of controversy.
Law enforcement officials say that such sting operations are an extremely effective means of lowering crime rates and stopping the criminally minded before they commit worse offenses. From early 2006 to the spring of 2007, there were 160 citations for public indecency in the city, according to an investigation by 10TV News. Among those who were caught in the stings: an Ohio State University doctor, government employees and a retired highway trooper.
But such operations veer dangerously close to entrapment, say lawyers, civil libertarians and defendants who've been caught in sting operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
On entrapment, how can police or police representatives ASK you to break the law and then arrest you when you do? I usually take the side of police here but this seems very unusual to me. Its not like they just had her laying there and the guy walked up and exposed himself. Watch the video at her friskiness and how she comes on to the guy? She physically touched him, put her leg on his shoulder, did everything you would expect a woman in heat to do and the ASKED him to show his stuff.
Also, does anyone know if this woman is a police officer? That raises many questions in itself if she is. If she isnt, would this qualify as pimping on the part of the PD? Is being a pimp a crime in Columbus?
I don’t know about the legality of it, but I think it’s a good idea. It encourages people to avoid breaking the law despite encouragement.
If I was on the jury, I would buy the entrapment defense in this case.
So this woman entices him with partial nudity and lewd behavior, and then having got him in a state of arousal, requests that he commit a specific crime and that’s not entrapment?
My opinion as a prospective juror ... entrapment pure and simple
She had her leg propped up on his shoulder and asked to see his penis?? Come on, looks like she should be arrested.
I imagine it's a seasonal thing like bass fishing, only you probably don't need a license.
I would never,never have fell for this kind of scam.
Liberal law enforcement has learned it is far easier to go after honest citizens than hardened criminals.
After all, a man exposing himself to a seductive, topless woman is far less likely to shoot back than a man dealing crack or robbing a bank.
In my opinion, applying limited law enforcement assets to this type of act is a larger crime than the one being committed. I doubt Columbus has a shortage of other, more severe crimes.
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***Eventually, she asked to see Garrison’s penis; he unzipped his pants and complied.***
ELAINE: Oh, the date. The date.
JERRY: Ya how was it?
ELAINE: Interesting.
JERRY: Really.
ELAINE: Oh ya.
JERRY: Why what happened?
ELAINE: Let’s see, (thinking) how shall I put this.
JERRY: Just put it.
ELAINE: He took it out.
JERRY: (confused) He what?
ELAINE: He took (blows on her glasses twice to clean them) it out.
JERRY: He took what out?
ELAINE: It.
JERRY: He took It, Out?
ELAINE: Yessiree Bob.
JERRY: He couldn’t.
ELAINE: He did.
JERRY: (motions of making out) Well you were involved in some sort of amorous...
ELAINE: Noooo.
JERRY: You mean he just
ELAINE: Yes.
JERRY: Are you sure?
ELAINE: Oh quite.
JERRY: There was no mistaking it?
ELAINE: (looks straight into his eyes) Jerry.
JERRY: So you were talking, (Elaine makes an agreement sound “mmm”) you’re having pleasant conversation, (Elaine makes an agreement sound “mmm”) then all of sudden...
ELAINE: Yea.
JERRY: It.
ELAINE: It.
JERRY: Out.
ELAINE: Out.
JERRY: Well I, I can’t believe this. I know Phil, he, he’s a good friend of mine. We play softball together. How could this be?
ELAINE: Oh it be. (sarcastically) You got any other friends you want to set me up with?
(Kramer enters)
KRAMER: Hey. (to Elaine) Hey how was your date with Phil Titola?
ELAINE: (to Kramer) He took it out.
(Shocked, Kramer acts like he just got a cold shiver down his back)
KRAMER: Maybe uh, it needed some air. You know sometimes they need air, they can’t breathe in there. It’s in human.
Intentional or not, that's clearly the pun of the month!
Scale of one to ten for a mathematically rigorous proof that somebody is a pervert, this doesn’t go any higher than about a one....
This reminds me of the following Email I received some time ago:
WARNING
A scam is being pulled, mainly on older men.
What happens is that when you stop for a red light, a young nude woman comes up and pretends to be washing your windshield. While she is doing this, another person opens your back door and steals anything in the car.
They are very good at this: They got me 7 times Friday and 5 times Saturday.
I wasn’t able to find them on Sunday.
The judge should throw out all these cases and have the chief and officers involved turn in their badges and arrest the gal. BTw, I am a woman.
Me too, I’d rule in favor of the accused on this. This is definately entrapment in my opinion.
This is outrageous. If I were on the jury—in criminal or civil court—I would decide in this man’s favor. With drug pushers in every American city and town and millions of illegal aliens flooding into the U.S.—our policemen are participating in this sort of entrapment!
See!
This is exactly what happened to me!!!
Except for the part about her being topless. And it was on a crowded bus. And her asking to see my penis.
But other than that, a clear case of entrapment.
It makes felons and "sex offenders" out of red-blooded American males who engage in consensual behavior with an apparently willing adult women.
Might as well lock up half the adult male population over 18.
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