You just had to bring that up, didn't you?
Posted on 10/25/2009 12:24:37 PM PDT by AJKauf
You’re standing in your kitchen making coffee. You are naked, but no one else is home. It’s early in the morning and you are in the privacy of your own home. All right, so maybe you’re a little bit odd, and maybe not everyone makes coffee naked. But your house, your rules, right?
That’s probably what Virginia resident Eric Williamson was thinking last Monday morning as he made himself coffee while dressed in nothing but his birthday suit. Unfortunately for Williamson, he wasn’t quite as alone as he thought. Walking through his yard were a woman and her seven-year-old son, on their way to the son’s school. The woman — a wife of a police officer – saw Williamson’s naked torso through his window and called the cops. Williamson was arrested and charged with indecent exposure.
There are some disputed accounts of this story. It is unclear precisely what time of the morning it happened and whether or not the man moved to another window as the mother and child walked across the lawn in order to remain in their range of vision.What’s not in dispute here is that the man was in his own home and the mother and kid were on his property, walking across his grass.....
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You just had to bring that up, didn't you?
“The woman — a wife of a police officer – saw Williamson’s naked torso through his window and called the cops. Williamson was arrested and charged with indecent exposure.”
The first question is whether he left the window open so a casual passerby could see him naked, in which case I would have to blame him. But if the woman made a special effort to look into his window (e.g. to see past partially opened blinds), I would say a strong case could be made for charging her with being a Peeping Tom—no different than a man who comes up to a woman’s window to see whatever he can see.
Not legal advice, I am not a lawyer.
You COULD argue that it was indecent exposure if he could be seen from the public sidewalk. If he could only be seen from his yard, and the woman was trespassing on his property, then I don’t see how they can possibly make a case.
So, I guess it depends if the window faces the yard and if there isn’t a complete screen of bushes or a fence. Otherwise, the police may twist things to favor this nitwit woman.
If I were he, I would put up a fence and some no trespassing signs, since otherwise I suppose people can say that they have a right to walk through—since we are talking legal technicalities and not common neighborly politeness.
OK, I just watched the news report, and as a healthy heterosexual female, I shall have to say....
NOT GUILTY! LOL
The woman should have been busted; obviously she is a Peeping Tomasina.
The fact that she’s the wife of a cop means, of course, that she gets to do as she pleases without fear of punishment in the Banana Republic which is the New America.
The Rule of Law now takes a back seat to whom you know and what your position is in society.
This whole affair is a travesty of justice which should not be allowed to stand. Indeed, the woman should be fined and jailed.
It’s not so much the pose as the pose with that smile on Clinton’s face.
It’s obvious that the police officer is not a conservative and is not a member of the Oathkeepers.
You don’t want to know how he makes the holes in his donuts.....
Speak for yourself.
Good Lord! I hope he wasn’t frying bacon. ;-)
I'm with you. Can't they charge the lady with some kind of trespass, or maybe violation of a peeping tom law? How about contributing to the delinquency of a minor - teaching her child to violate other's property?
Or how many donuts and cups of coffee he can carry at the nudist colony.
LOL! Great story!
Then Naked Coffee guy needs an apology from the police.
"I had a neighbor lady who called the police because a man on our street was exposing himself. When the police got to her house they looked out her window into the window next door and saw a naked man from the waist up.
'Lady, you can't see that he's exposing himself' the officer said. 'Well, if you stand up on this stool right here, you can see everything' she said."
If YOU are looking into ANYONE’s window of their PRIVATE residence, under any circumstances, by what rights can you claim “you are offended” (in a criminal sense), by anything you see? None; unless there is some clear evidence that the person(s) in the private residence were knowingly using the window for a public display?
The man should counter-sue for invasion of privacy.
His acts were, by all accounts regarding HIS actions, private.
The “mother and child” turned them into “public” acts, by THEIR actions, not his.
Whether or not he counter-sues the woman, the criminal case should be dismissed.
Naked Coffee Guy....
...like Tourist Guy, just...uh, less encumbered. ;)
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