USA your laws are fuct
 

WTF is the point of throwing the book at this guy...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,135578,00.html

High School Streaker Gets Up to 2 Years
Friday, October 15, 2004

TOWANDA, Pa. ? A high school graduate was sentenced to up to two years in jail for streaking the graduation ceremony from which he had been excluded.

Russell Chmieleski (search), 18, pleaded guilty to first-degree indecent exposure (search) and must serve six months to two years. Because the charge is a misdemeanor, he can stay in a county jail, rather than state prison.

The first-degree charge was made because children were in the crowd when Chmieleski ran across the football field where the Towanda High School (search) graduation ceremony was held in June.

Police said Chmieleski was upset that school officials excluded him from the ceremony because he graduated in January.

Towanda is about 50 miles northwest of Scranton.

Its deepest darkest PA, man... not a reflection of the whole country.

Morality Police State :helpme

there is a time and a place for everything... in front of a bunch of children is NOT the right time or place to streak.

You don't do stuff like that when you live in Quaker county...

Oh no! Some kids might have seen his doodle!

But 2 years in jail? C'mon! Bunch of uptight conservatives.

I bet you've never been to europe, they streak over here pretty frequently and they do it where kids are watching... what's the point that they see a dick? It's not like they never saw one before

That's why. Because in the US we seem to believe that if you see a penis, boobs or a vagina before you turn 18, your whole life will decay until you are a crack whore, hooker, porn star, junkie democrat or something. No boobies between breast feeding (and only at home in a darkened room so the mailman isn't scarred for life by accidentally seeing some nipple) and marriage!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :thumbsup I want to know why they wouldn't allow him just because he graduated in January, it's a right for him to be at the service. It's not like he graduated late.

jDoG

oh and btw they don't do jail time for the fact they showed their dick to kids, just for disturbing the peace ;p there's even a tv prog about it

nope, I've never been to Europe.

yes, yes they are.

I wouldn't necessarily say that there is something wrong with that law, but I'd say that there is something wrong with applying that law to this situation.

Charge him with disorderly conduct, and give him a fine, but 2 years in jail for running naked through a crowd?

Nudity has never harmed anyone. Save our prison space for rapists and murderers. This is why real criminals get let out early due to overcrowding. :mad:

Kids think it's funny. It's warped adults who have a problem.

Ya that makes the point I was trying to make a little more clear- not so much the law being the problem but the harshness of the sentence given the situation.

I KNOW HUH!?


look at how well a 'righteous' upbringing did for our buddy Mr O'Reilly
...and all those priests in the past few years...


the proof is in the puddin' as they say...


:thumbsup :thumbsup

By the way, calling it a USA law isn't very accurate

I said USA laws because that story made me think of your drug laws and the harsh jail sentences you can get for having (arguably) harmless drugs like Pot in your possession.

Man, Towanda is the middle of fucking nowhere.. (I grew up in Erie).

Those boys ain't got nothin else to do :) That was almost certainly the biggest thing to happen in that town in years.

Remember all the football players at that camp in PA?

They ass raped the kids for 4 days and they all got off.:BangBang:

I wonder if it would have been a girl if the "officials" would have let her go with a warning. And maybe a spanking!

I bet you've never been anywhere you backwoods inbreed.

Now you know who votes for Bush.

In this case, I think it had more to do with the specific community that this event took place in. Obviously it's not the most liberal community in America. That community is much more fucked up than the law is.

Uptight conservatives just suck the fun out of life. They won't be happy until they live in Pleasantville

I couldnt agree with u more .Sometimes US laws are stupid!!!

How come... time and time again, it gets thrust in your face how stupid people are?

Sure he is an ass, but what possible reason or "good" is there is sending someone to prison for this "first degree" charge?? DUH?

BTW.. I love the way the US tries to make silly shit "relevant" by using terms like "first degree". It's like classifying people as "aliens" as tho they come from some different planet.

Again.. there sure is some "judgement" problem in this land of "freedom" and "values".

6 months up to 2 years . . .unless he is a complete asshole in jail he will get out in 6 months

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

good, I guess that means we can count on you to stay on your side of the border?

Maybe the amount of time for his crime is stupid? Maybe he shouldn't be doing time at all? Maybe he should just pay a fine, or do community service?

baddog:

I think he was "observing" how fucking stupid some people are.

I doubt he had plans to actually join them.

Nope, I've never been anywhere. But, why would I want to when I've got your mom right here to satisfy all of my felching needs? Silly.

Mmmm... another pointless post to assert dick size and get some self-assurance.

Pity it's not even smart.....

Frankly I find that as frightening as I do infuriating.

I don't even use drugs- I just recognize how irrational it is to harshly punish someone for possessing a drug like marijuana.

and the backwoods inbreed comment was oh so intelligent and constructive? lol, you dippy doos crack me up.

turbo:

Pointless...

Next...

andykidd:

Irony is, people doing drugs (*g* I mean law enforcement, specifically in the US who handle drugs offenses) actually "know" it's stupid in relation to marijuana.

Some I know even have a "it's demeaning" attitude when they gotta waste time and resources on this instead of "real stuff".

But it's not them that make the laws :-)