Skwink
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I'd say about 6 years max.
Atheist In Lakeland FL Arrested For Making Sex Noises
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I'd say about 6 years max.
Any more than the 6 hours to make bail is overkill to me. Ideally, she should have been cited for a minor misdemeanor and not even incarcerated at all.
RedRalph
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why not a bloody nose for carelessness?
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
Dont you think there is a legal difference in doing something inside your own home and what this woman did at a park?
Not in regards to the statute they are using for the charge. In fact, being outside would likely give her a better shot at beating the charge since if all she was doing is making shampoo commercial noises and the witnesses indicate that she wasn't simulating penetration, then the statute does not apply.
GinandTonic
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I thought she was inside her property?
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
She was. That is quite clear from the articles I posted.
What is odd is that if you watch the video in the last news article URL I posted, this is obviously a very upscale neighborhood. But the houses are so squeezed together and poorly planned that the neighbor's basketball hoop in their driveway is quite close to her house.
What is odd is that if you watch the video in the last news article URL I posted, this is obviously a very upscale neighborhood. But the houses are so squeezed together and poorly planned that the neighbor's basketball hoop in their driveway is quite close to her house.
She's an atheist, she probably lives at the park, under a bench or overpass. There she lies in wait to simulate sex noises at unsuspecting christians.
Rashiminos
Fool Prophet
I would think making funny noises at kids several yards from your first story window could actually be legitimate grounds for complaint for some of posters here, given their views on statutory rape.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
Good point. I wonder if the sheriff has duly considered the notion that her alleged conduct was an attempt to seduce him. While most female schoolteachers in this area seem to get off with probation for even having sex with male students, they likely weren't atheists.
GhostWriter16
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Case in point: Using ridiculously low and moronically so sentences to defend a reasonable view makes the view look unreasonable.
Aegis
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Is this grounds for filing a complaint? Sure, have an Officer talk to her. Enough to incarcerate her? No, don't be ridiculous.
What if she really was having sex? Are we going to start imprisoning people having sex within their homes just because the walls are too thin?
What if she really was having sex? Are we going to start imprisoning people having sex within their homes just because the walls are too thin?
onedreamer
Dragon
I have trouble in understanding why the reiterate use of the word atheist in this matter. Does your credo make a difference for the law in the USA? Are these article and post implying that a devout believer of God would not be arrested for the same "crime"?
Obviously not since they are not his property and you can't donate something that is someone's else property, it's called theft.
Obviously not since they are not his property and you can't donate something that is someone's else property, it's called theft.
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
Well, presumably someone has to be able to 'manage' such property, and in being able to manage it, make the decision on whether said property is still viable, or even necessary.
It also helps to cut down on paperwork if someone specific has this authority, without have to form a committee or have a public vote if one desires, for example, to get rid of old chairs to replace them with new ones.
The story also says this transaction was vetted by the city attorney who approved it. So it sounds to me like the 'devout christian' in question did his due diligence by getting approval for the transaction from the lawyers who's job it is to provide the oversight for same.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
Outspoken atheists must be quite careful in the more backward parts of the country to not incite the ire of politically powerful Christians, such as this sheriff. Otherwise, they tend to get persecuted for violating laws that don't seem to pertain to anybody else.
Many of them even claim that atheists have no morals. Ironically, it is quite often the atheists who typically hold the moral high-ground over those who wish to turn prisons and jails into gulags while becoming morally incensed over common sexual practices they consider to be "deviant". The attempts of this particular sheriff to combat internet porn is an excellent example.
GhostWriter16
Deity
@Form- What state do you live in? I assume you've chosen to live in a "Less backward" area correct?
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
This 'more backward part of the country' that Form is referring to has a population of 100,000 peoplem, and is the center of a metro area of over 500,000 people. It is right between Tampa and Orlando Florida.
Its hardly the small provincial redneck town he seems to imply it is.
GhostWriter16
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Its Florida, so it is NOT backward. It is more advanced than the rest of this pitiful nation in every way (See my sig)
Of course, this town in particular is also at least a 2 hour drive North of the Promised Land, so its not really that Holy either
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
The part I live in is definltely more backward than other parts of the country, as evidenced by all the KKK, skinheads and assorted rednecks. But at least we don't have a dingbat sheriff with clearly faulty morals he tries to inflict on everybody else, as Polk County or Maricopa County in Arizona have. Fortunately, these bigoted "law enforcement" officials are now becoming very much the exception instead of the rule, as they used to be a few decades ago. Baby steps.
