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Octogenarian accused of performing sex act with a SHRUBBERY
An 81-year-old man from Stratford, Connecticut, has been charged with public indecency after performing a sex act with a shrubbery. The Connecticut Post reported that Wallace Berg, of Russell Road, is facing charges of second-degree breach of the peace and public indecency after being caught "humping" a shrubbery. The local …
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Thursday 30th July 2015 08:52 GMT Alan Johnson
Re: Is charging the right response?
Obviously a source of jokes but if the man concerned has no previous record then this strongly suggests a new neurological problem and that should be the main focus. Charging someone under these circumstances does not seem appropriate untill the likely medical problems have been investigated. He and his family have problems issues without a record of sexual offences.
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Thursday 30th July 2015 08:49 GMT Anonymous Coward
This shit pisses me off. Number one if an old man wants to shag plants in his own garden that's his business, if it upsets you mention it and as is evident he'll stop, or go back sit down and watch TV. Don't fucking record it like some sick voyeristic cunt.
And as mentioned it could be a sad sign of the the kind of problems you get in older life.
So calling the police and giving the old man a 10k bail is inhuman.
- as an asside - russel road? Are you sure this isn't a wind up?
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Thursday 30th July 2015 12:16 GMT astrax
He's going to Rue the day he expected a Honeysuckle from a Buxus Camellia. Heather knows the thyme'ing was just Hawthorne. I bet he feels like a Raspberry now. I'm not calling him a Briar but he just doesn't care about putting his Gooseberry into a Jasmine or a Daphne. Anyway, off to the Juniper forums now to discuss dealers in Magnolia, Texas. x
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Friday 31st July 2015 01:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
Offended by naked geezers?
Don't look into geezers' back yards.* What is done on ones premises is ones own business if it poses no bona fide health and safety risk to others (naked gardening good, cooking meth bad). In this specific case, if there is no fence around the backyard and what is done there is visible to all, a discreet "sorry to bother you, but did you know that people can see your backyard from the street?" later that day should be sufficient.
* Spoken by a geezer who is occasionally naked in the fenced back yard; when it is summer hot I just can not be arsed to put on clothes solely to nip outside to empty the veggie peelings into the compost bin. AC because I don't want to give my local neighbourhood nazis any ideas.
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Friday 31st July 2015 03:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Offended by naked geezers?
This is North America, my friend! It's not enough to have your opinion, you must do anything in your power to impose it to the rest of the world.
I could find a more serious example but I'll pick one the is easy to understand: wearing a helmet while riding a bike. There are some nuts that want to make it compulsory and frankly I'm having a hard time understanding their effort to protect me. If they think there is a risk of injury then for God's sake they should start wearing a helmet and just leave me alone.
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Friday 31st July 2015 18:10 GMT Turtle
"wearing a helmet while riding a bike"
"wearing a helmet while riding a bike. There are some nuts that want to make it compulsory and frankly I'm having a hard time understanding their effort to protect me. If they think there is a risk of injury then for God's sake they should start wearing a helmet and just leave me alone."
That's fine if, and only if, you have already paid insurance premiums such that it will be your money and only your money that will be spent on both immediate and long-tern rehabilitative medical care if you suffer a head injury whilst riding without a helmet.
Since that's unlikely to be the case, and since, thanks to the miracle of compulsory medical insurance, many, many other people's money will be spent cleaning up the mess of a head injury incurred while riding without a helmet, your decision to wear or not wear a helmet becomes a matter of public concern.
Once any type of insurance, public or private, enters the picture, and the money being spent on the injury is not 100% your own, things get... complicated. Note that this has nothing to do with your opinion on. or support of, or desire or lack of desire to be covered by. any sort of compulsory or non-compulsory medical insurance or public health insurance whatsoever. Other people have to pay the costs, and are therefore concerned about how and - especially - why their money is being spent.
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