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Honk If You See Something You Like

Radley Balko | 9.25.2007 5:28 PM

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Via Reddit, yesterday's faddish streaker is today's sex offender.

Barely related:

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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  1. An Honest Question   18 years ago

    I wonder how many upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherer kids were psychologically scarred for life before the invention of clothing.

  2. Steven   18 years ago

    I wonder how many upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherer kids were psychologically scarred for life before the invention of clothing.

    That was then and now is now. He is 18, a legal adult. There could of been some children 17 or younger there who could have been harmed by this. Since he has shown the propensity to harm children he should be registered to protect them.

  3. ktc2   18 years ago

    Yes, nudity is just so horrible. Those poor 17 year old children could be scarred for life! Get real people, get over it, move on.

  4. An Honest Question   18 years ago

    Steven, just how were children harmed? Why is the natural human body something to be "protected from?"

  5. Brandybuck   18 years ago

    This is ridiculous. Nudity is not sex, and streaking is not a sexual act. Not even the Puritans were as prudish as today's society. Earlier we had the sex offenders who merely slapped girls' bottoms in school. Who's going to be tomorrows dangerous sex offender? The boy who snaps a girls bra? The boy who peeks into the girls gym?

  6. Taktix? (L-FL)   18 years ago

    Here's a mind melter:

    What if one of those 17-year-olds turned 18 as he was crossing the stage?

    Would the child in question be only half-scarred?

  7. M   18 years ago

    Little Girl: I'll show you mine if you show me yours!
    Lttle Boy: Hell, I'm not stupid: Girls get money to show theirs, boys go to jail if they show theirs.

    From a German cartoon, uh, strip.

  8. J sub D   18 years ago

    I wasn't always the wise, mature, sage you've come to know on these pages. Once, I too, streaked. At the Lakewood Mall, which I believe is in Waukegan, Illinois. Sex offender, it means less every day. The wussification af America continues.

  9. The Police   18 years ago

    J sub D,

    A squad car is being sent as we speak.

  10. J sub D   18 years ago

    On the video, Radley, You didn't need to do that to me. That was evil.

  11. Tym   18 years ago

    Here's a mind melter:

    What if one of those 17-year-olds turned 18 as he was crossing the stage?

    Would the child in question be only half-scarred?

    Kind of like

  12. Tym   18 years ago

    I wasn't always the wise, mature, sage you've come to know on these pages. Once, I too, streaked. At the Lakewood Mall, which I believe is in Waukegan, Illinois. Sex offender, it means less every day. The wussification af America continues.

    I believe I may have peed in the woods when camping before.

  13. The Police   18 years ago

    Tym, a squad car is being sent to you as well. Your words will be used against you.

  14. Someone   18 years ago

    When what is unnatural is set up as moral do not be surprised if people act in unnatural ways. Such as:
    http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/167156.html

  15. Taktix? (L-FL)   18 years ago

    Me ex and I defiled the Cathedral of Learning while in college, does that count?

  16. ellipsis   18 years ago

    One word: Utah.

    In a lot of more cosmopoliton areas, social nudity is becoming more accepted. WNBR is really getting popular in my area. But hickvilles are probably viewing urban areas with distain, and the social values that come with it.

  17. John Payne   18 years ago

    Ellipsis is right that people probably wouldn't have flipped out so much if it weren't in Utah--where they don't allow music.

    Also, when you viewed the article, did anyone else get an ad for Disney World? I don't think the streaker is a sex offender but certainly the algorithm that placed that ad is.

    Finally, Tym, I have a friend who was arrested for peeing in the woods while camping. Our neighbor didn't like us because we were loud and had already called the police on us for that, so when he saw my buddy take a leak--supposedly anyway because none of us remember it....but we were really hammered--he called the cops, and they took him in. Happy ending: because the only witness never showed up for the trial, there was no evidence and the charges were dropped.

  18. An Honest Question   18 years ago

    Ellipsis, unfortunately I have heard this type of thing happening in places other than historical Deseret. This is a national phenomonon.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret

  19. J sub D   18 years ago

    I believe I may have peed in the woods when camping before.

    The woods? As an urban adult male who has never, ever relieved himself in an alley, not once, I think you should have been prosecuted just like all those other flashers. You pervert.

  20. Dave B.   18 years ago

    Barely related? Cheap pun.

  21. sean   18 years ago

    this is exactly why I only beat off in the movie theatre on Monday nights 5 weeks in from the films release

  22. J sub D   18 years ago

    Me ex and I defiled the Cathedral of Learning while in college, does that count?

    Cathedrals (of any kind) count double. Congrats.

  23. Rick Barton   18 years ago

    Radley,

    Cuza that insipid vid you subjected us to and cuz you said to honk if we saw something that we liked, here's a stellar vid that has a honk reference. It's The Cars - "You Might Think"!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8oZZJojROo&mode=related&search=

  24. Anonymo the Anonymous   18 years ago

    Juanita + spell check = Steven. Ignore him.

  25. An Honest Question   18 years ago

    Who is Juanita? Where can I find a list of Juanita's greatest hits?

  26. Lamar   18 years ago

    I was showering and I thought, this is porn...I am totally naked....then I thought of how I was effected by all those showers and nakedness when I was 15 and I thought....how did I ever survive?

  27. Rick Barton   18 years ago

    Tangentially ON TOPIC cuz this wonderful tune was originally called "Sex Offender"- When folks fisrt saw the raw verve that Blondie put out in this vid back in 76, they musta just been blown away! And Debbie was sooo cute!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ6fpSdQQKc#TrF8t3ODNrs

    I think that watching Blondie vids and listening and dancing around to their music is like one a the most fun things you can do with your pants on. BTW, here's a hint of what I consider to be the most fun you can have with your pants on:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4IqAlDdZY

  28. smartass sob   18 years ago

    I believe I may have peed in the woods when camping before.

    I shit in a five gallon bucket once at a trash dump out in the woods. But I emptied the bucket and left it for some other scavenger to pick up. (Someone did, too - I went back later and looked.)
    🙂

  29. an even more honest question   18 years ago

    Who is Juanita? Where can I find a list of Juanita's greatest hits?

    Hits, shmits...where can I see her tits?

  30. andronoid   18 years ago

    A way better video on the future of streaking:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phSd9t9vdvo

  31. VM   18 years ago

    Honest question:

    here ya go

  32. Bishop of Forbes   18 years ago

    Taktix? (L-FL) | September 25, 2007, 6:25pm | #
    Me ex and I defiled the Cathedral of Learning while in college, does that count?

    -----------------------------------------------
    Big Deal - I defiled all 26 CoL Nationality Rooms each with a young lady of the proper ethnic background, dressed in, or undressed in, their native costume.

  33. Late comer to the party   18 years ago

    Why is it blocked? Why can't I see the video? Where did everyone go????

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