Ohio man cuffed for shagging picnic table
Anonymous Coward
so #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 09:28 GMT
was he shagging his own picnic table in his garden or somebody elses picnic table? i think that's a pretty central fact to my opinion here.
I mean it's just not on to go to a park and shag someone elses picnic table.
lansalot
:O #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 09:28 GMT

To be fair, I did see a picture of the table in question - and it was definitely asking for it...
He could have at least brought it dinner first though...
Roger Lancefield
Sex offenders Register? #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 09:28 GMT

When a man shags a picnic table, that is not news, but if a picnic table shags a man ...
Anonymous Coward
Impressive... #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 09:38 GMT

Bellevue resident Art Price Jr, 40, molested the round metal table on four occasions "between the hours of 10:30 am and noon"
Four times in 90 minutes? Mighty impressive, Sir.
Andrew Carpenter
Is nothing safe!? #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 09:38 GMT

First bicycles, then vacuum cleaners, and now picnic tables.
Where will it end?
Fatty Treats
sex #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 09:38 GMT
FFS, you can't have sex, i.e. procreate with an inanimate object. This chap, the bicycle banger, the hoover humper and all the rest of them were using their 'partner' as masturbatory aids.
Torbjørn
Interesting news... but #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 09:41 GMT

I can see how this is a news on the side of things, but I have to admit I fail to see the IT angle here... unless ofcourse the table was Vista compliant or indeed a Wifi-antenna...
Oooor the newest iSex addon til the naughty iPod/iPhone.........
Peter
This begs the question #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 09:48 GMT

.. was it a hardwood table?
Mine's the shabby flasher Mac, thanks.
Les Matthew
Love it! #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 09:48 GMT

"provided police with hard evidence of Price's perversion."
fnar fnar frnar.
JonB
>Interesting news... but #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:03 GMT

He was clearly attempting a difficult join on the table..
Surely this could all be sorted out with a simple rollback?
Dennis
Re: Impressive... #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:03 GMT

"Four times in 90 minutes? Mighty impressive, Sir."
No. He had to keep stopping to get the splinters out.
Anonymous Coward
I see... #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:03 GMT
The picnic table on my patio has a hole for the parasol. Must be at least 3" diameter. So, glad to see he's only average size only then.
Peter
IT angle #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:03 GMT

Mayble it was a special version of Microsoft Surface. If not, the adult industry might want to patent the idea.
cor
Basket case? #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:15 GMT

- Cucumber sandwiches anyone?
Jamie
Think of the table please. #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:15 GMT

Has any organization gone out to talk to the table to work through this horrible violation of its civil liberties and to help it deal so that it does not in turn offend when it gets a bit older.
Com'on if it was Paris there would be videos everywhere.
cor
dontcha love google ads? #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:25 GMT
Check out the bottom of the page ....Google ads:
Folding Picnic Table
Folding Picnic Table Info. Easy Folding Picnic Table Guide.
Picnic products for sale
Tool, cooler, chair, bag, mat Premium shopping, factory price.
-------- Incitement to commit a crime?
Elmer Phud
Holy Grail #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:26 GMT
'Knights of the Round Table' somehow takes on a different meaning.
Could have been worse - what if the urge took him while visiting a garden centre?
Pete
It was all just a misunderstanding... #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:40 GMT

His wife had asked him to "lay the table"...
Anonymous Coward
Ewww #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:40 GMT

Well no salad cream at his garden parties then
Dave
Won't someone think of the children? #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:41 GMT
FTFA: Some neighbours are reportedly worried that Price's three school-age kids might take some stick if their school friends get wind of the scandal.
Hmmm, so is telling a TV reporter that Art Price Jr. has 3 children at the school down the road really the best way of preventing the school friends from finding out?
Chris Collins
A man and his table is sacred #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 10:53 GMT
Charging him with porking his table near a school is a bit much. I think we've all had a tug at some point in vague proximity to something else that may not appreciate the aesthetics of the performance. was the table itself underage? And exactly who has been harmed by this sweet, sweet lovin'?
Tim
At last #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 11:37 GMT
The Victorian practice of covering table legs has been vindicated.
Adam
Between 10:30am and noon #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 11:52 GMT
Surely the kids would all have been in school?
Also, there's little chance a miner would have seen it as they're usually down t'pit at that time.
Mine's the table cloth with a hole in the middle...
cor
But what... #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 11:52 GMT

..will the parasol say when he gets home?
Will the tables be turned?
Jamie
Never thought of the parasol #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 12:12 GMT

Maybe he was jealous of the action the parasol was getting,
Maybe he needed to loosen up the hole a bit, add some grease so to say,
Meybe he was upset as the parasol turned down his advances.
Paris, cause well it is sex and now floating the internet.
James Radley
Top police humour #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 12:12 GMT

Does anyone else think something might be amiss when Captain "Johnson" says "Once you think you've seen it all, something else comes around."
Which for a story about a man pleasuring himself using the umbrella hole in a picnic table is so apt....
Mines the one with the toy police badge pinned to it.
Mark_T
The I.T. angle explained.... #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 12:40 GMT

It was a Pivot Table ?
Sorry..
Simp
A new sexual level #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 12:48 GMT
If a man has to turn to shagging a picnic table, his wife must be one stone cold lass. Before resorting to a picnic table i can only imagine he built his wife the pyramids to try and get a slice.
Either that or was just warming the table for afternoon drinks
Jonathan Richards
SQL #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 14:17 GMT
INSERT TOJR INTO TABLE; DROP TABLE
EXPLAIN PLAN...
James Chidley
Threesome? #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 14:20 GMT

One has to wonder if the umbrella pole was *In* on the act.
Tim
Never mind third base #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 15:11 GMT

Looks like he got all the way to Homebase.
Anonymous Coward
Just following ancient cowboy advice ? #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 15:34 GMT

"A woman's like cactus and cactus can hurt
'Cause she's just a tight-waisted winky-eyed flirt
She'll soon have your land and your pride and your gold
And bury you deep long before you grow old
A four legged friend, a four legged friend
He'll never let you down
He's honest and faithful right up to the end
That wonderful one-two-three-four legged friend"
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/a/afourleggedfriend.shtml
Harry Stottle
Was It Public Or Private? #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 15:48 GMT
The critical question here (in line with the first commenter above) is whether it was a public or private performance. I can concede the complaint if it was public, but if it was private, what business is it of any third party?
Or are we supposed to assume that anything which can be captured on video by nosy neighbours is automatically public from now on?
VampyreWolf
Hole size? #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 18:39 GMT
Uh... how big was the hole? I don't know about you guys but the hole in my table is only 1.5" across...
Mr B
Temperature #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 22:11 GMT

@VampyreWolf: Observed temperatures in Bellevue, OH on March the 14th: 34-45°F (1-7°C) that might explain.
But that may also point out to nosy neighbours, in that weather on a metal table he'd have had a hard time to get hard, the guy might have invited the picnic table in, hence the uttermost arousal of the table & partner having sex in uncanny locations ... hmmm ... I'm getting carried away ... sorry.
Forgot to mention the guy's children's names: Al-Desk, Bench-amin & Chair-y.
Anonymous Coward
And this would feel good how? #
Posted Monday 31st March 2008 22:14 GMT

So, how horny do you have to be, to be able to achieve orgasm by shoving your penis in either a splintery, hard table, or a cold steel tube? Never mind, not too sure I want to know...
So, he's dumped Rosie Palms & is now taken up with Patty O'Furniture.
...mine's the straitjacket.
Anonymous Coward
Why oh why.... #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 00:36 GMT

...has nobody comments on what the police officer says "While sex with picnic tables is normally considered a misdemeanour"
NORMALLY????
FKN NORMALLY???? if there was ever an adjective used in completely the wrong way then this must take the biscuit.
Ahhh... my mistake, 'Normal' is such a subjective word... as in Normal for Norfolk... and now obviously Normal for America.. i learn such alot on El Reg.....
Paris Hilton because she might have been lying on the aforementioned table with Harry Potters cloak of invisibility on
bws
Well... #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 01:49 GMT
Bellevue is about 30 minutes from here and I hear about it from a UK website? Twice in one month? First the incident in Ft. Wayne and now, just down the road? You bastards!
If Mr. Price committed that act in this city, he probably would have been shot.
Jeff
Take some stick... Captain Johnson #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 01:51 GMT

Is is an April Fool's joke a day early?
Paris because she has taken a lot of stick, been captain of many johnsons, and probably been friendly with a few umbrella poles.
Richard Freeman
Hang on - who is the Perv here? #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 05:12 GMT

The Bloke shagging the table - or the chap videoing him shagging the table in the privacy of his Backyard.....
Simpson
Guests #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 05:12 GMT
I keep thinking about his friends and guests.
"I was just there, wish I hadn't eaten that potato that fell off my plate"
"Just what did he mean, by ' I love this new table?'"
Ryan Greenaway
Just maybe... #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 08:32 GMT

...he was unable to afford the new play tables the kids had wanted to play picnic with, and this was the only way he could think of getting new little tables.
This then begs the question as to why he was sodomising the table? Surely if the table was on all fours (as most tables are) then he would have been going through the back door (as it were). Someone really needs to explain this to the chap.
Mind you, some experience of sodomy might stand him in good stead for a stint in prison.
IT angle, if he was trying to create tables, "Access" would've been a lot easier.
Anonymous Coward
April Fools?? #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 08:32 GMT

This sounds like an APril Fools joke to me, if not, this man needs to have a good word with himself!
george abney
Well.....I MUST SAY.... #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 08:32 GMT
The table HOLE surely gave him a better time than his frigid wife AND
at the very WORST, the public display was at LEAST as clean as the rubbish they force on our children disguised as Sex Education!
Three CHEERS for the tableFocker!
He must have been uncircumcised or the friction would have been fatal to passion, SURELY?!! WHAT do YOU think, Benny Hen?
Anonymous Coward
Must like it rough #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 08:42 GMT

The question is "What is this guy used to?" Ouch! And to do it 4 times beggars belief.
Dave Cheetham
Explanation? #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 08:42 GMT

Well we all know these self assembly instructions can be blurred or vague, so maybe he misunderstood "put complete erection in hole in centre".
Anonymous Coward
@So #
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 10:20 GMT
I remember when I lived for a couple of years in Cupertino being surprised to read that the "city" had a absolute ban on houses more than 1 floor on the grounds that you could look into a neighbours garden (or more correctly "neighbors yard") from a first floor window! Perhaps they was a culture of garden furniture abuse going on that they wanted to keep hidden!
Daniel Kay
Worrying... #
Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 12:44 GMT

I've noticed somewhat of an alarming increase in the number of people getting caught mid-coitus with inanimate objects... Perhaps enough to warrant a new section for the site - El-Sex-Offenders-Reg?
Anonymous Coward
@sex #
Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 04:17 GMT

"FFS, you can't have sex, i.e. procreate with an inanimate object. This chap, the bicycle banger, the hoover humper and all the rest of them were using their 'partner' as masturbatory aids." (you were trying to think of 'table thumper' to go with bike banger and hoover humper?)
I thought the hoover was quite animated at the time.... don't know about the byke tho tis quite possible the poor thing was thrashing about, and as for this chap's 4 legged friend, well it's hard to say without seeing the UToob vid of the action. Those neighbors really ought post one of the vids they have!
Mines the one with the holopix of my five legged pal on the back...
kain preacher
@simp #
Posted Friday 4th April 2008 00:18 GMT
THe man is single. No women, or guy would touch a nut job like that.
If I was his land lord i'd be nervous about entering his place for clean up.