Right here? My wife still says the guy looks like a jobless jerk that runs around the house naked with his hard hat on flashing women through his window.
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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He should invest in a good set of either Patio curtains or vertical blinds.
Of course, and if she were on the sidewalk at the time, she'd have a complaint. Since she cut through his property, too bad. I don't even care if you can see into that window from the sidewalk since that wasn't where she was at the time.
As for permission - I don’t know if she had it or not (probably not written, but perhaps expressed).
True, we don't actually know that she didn't. If she did have written permission to be there would be the only case in which I'd support her complaint.
In any case, it’s not as if she was a true VOYEUR.
Never said she was, and didn't suggest charging her with peeping like some of the posters. I saw nothing in the article that suggested she was looking in the window for that purpose. I only said she was fortunate not to get charged for trespassing (and then only if she didn't have written permission to cut across the yard).
Frankly, I’d have to know all the facts and all the laws before deciding just what to do. It’s possible both of them are at fault for different things and perhaps they could just get an admonishment and warning not to do XXXXX again or there would be more.
Yeah, I agree that we’re all debating in a partial vacuum, and that yes, if this could be handled in a non-judicial way it might come out best for everyone. Everyone seems to make such a federal case out of everything anymore.
I guess the fact that his roomate contradicts his story and he later said in a phone interview with a reporter that he couldn't exactly remember doesn't count since you have your bias and the facts be d@mned.
Right here? My wife still says the guy looks like a jobless jerk that runs around the house naked with his hard hat on flashing women through his window.
He was too drunk to even call the cops. And if they had come he was too drunk to sign the complaint. And I don't think the cops would have given much sympathy to a guy greeting them nude but for his hard hat on.
I guess the fact that his roomate contradicts his story and he later said in a phone interview with a reporter that he couldn’t exactly remember doesn’t count since you have your bias and the facts be d@mned.
No need. He skipped town.
It's hard to call the police on a trespasser when you are running around drunk and nude except for your hard hat!
The fact that she's a cops wife makes it a little more egregious, I guess, but I for one would feel the same way if she weren't.
Really? You would not have mentioned it if you really felt that way.
Plus your past use of the term 'jack-booted thugs' undermines your credibility completely!
His roomates thought it pretty strange! Besides, if his employer had not already fired him, his employer would have probably kicked him out of the house.
Or maybe from the present owner or residents.
Or maybe she looked that way when her little daughter pointed her finger at the house and asked mommy why that guy wasn't wearing any clothes.
this guy is facing UP TO a year in jail and UP TO a $2000 fine if convicted.
With a sincere apology, he would probably have gotten off with community service.
§ 18.2-387. Indecent exposure.
Every person who intentionally makes an obscene display or exposure of his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place, or in any place where others are present, or procures another to so expose himself, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. No person shall be deemed to be in violation of this section for breastfeeding a child in any public place or any place where others are present.(Code 1950, § 18.1-236; 1960, c. 233; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1994, c. 398.)
It appears you’re the one with the bias. I’m going by what the news stories say happened. If he was in the privacy of his own home, and she walked across that property by the window and looked in, then she’s the one in the wrong.
hmm. So you can't refute the facts and admit that you are biased for the guy even though he later admitted to running around nude and drunk and couldn't really remember all he did?
It (his you know) was 'publicly' visible.
I don’t know the guy. I don’t know if he’s a “jerk” or not. But, when people are arrested for being naked in their own home, law enforcement has gone too far.
I’ll go even further: Let’s give you the benefit of the doubt and assume he really did flash her. If she was looking in his window, she was asking to be flashed. Walking across someone’s property and looking into his windows is a big no-no. I never go onto other people’s properties, and I taught my children not to, either. They won’t even step on someone’s lawn unless we’re invited to.
When I was a child, we peeked into a neighbor’s window once and saw him and his girlfriend on the sofa. Well, we shouldn’t have gone peeking into someone’s window. Our parents never thought to call the police, FCOL.
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