Woman Ticketed For Sitting On Park Bench Without Kids

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sao123

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Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: Mwilding
So, the lesson here is if you are a pedophile, just claim you didn't see the sign?
No, the lesson here is that if you are a pedophile, you must kidnap a child. Then you can legally sit at the park.


Actually I think the lesson is...

if your a pedophile... walk in with one child and out with two....

On 9/11/01 NY cops were geniuses and heros... now on 9/27/05 NY cops are dum zeros...
what a difference 4 years of coffee and donuts makes.
 

kranky

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It's tough to deal with that problem. There are so many pedos around.

I was at a group picnic three weeks ago at a county park, about 150 people. Lots of kids playing. About 5 PM, one of my friends comes up to me and tells me to keep an eye on some guy walking along the lakeshore near the playground. My friend, an ex-cop, recognized him as a convicted pedophile.

What I would have liked to do is beat the guy to a pulp just for being around kids intentionally. What we ended up doing is making all the kids quit playing and come back to the shelter. After about five minutes, the pedo noticed some of us adults were obviously staring at him and he wandered off to another area of the park. Would anything have happened? I don't know for sure, but I'm sure glad my friend recognized the guy.
 

sixone

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That sounds really messed up...but I wonder if it's really the whole story.

You remember the fat lady that filed a complaint against her doctor for telling her she was fat? Story from 08/24/2005

Turns out he also told her she was too fat to attract men, except for maybe black men, but that didn't come out for a few days after the frenzy was over. Story from 08/31/2005
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: kranky
It's tough to deal with that problem. There are so many pedos around.

I was at a group picnic three weeks ago at a county park, about 150 people. Lots of kids playing. About 5 PM, one of my friends comes up to me and tells me to keep an eye on some guy walking along the lakeshore near the playground. My friend, an ex-cop, recognized him as a convicted pedophile.

What I would have liked to do is beat the guy to a pulp just for being around kids intentionally. What we ended up doing is making all the kids quit playing and come back to the shelter. After about five minutes, the pedo noticed some of us adults were obviously staring at him and he wandered off to another area of the park. Would anything have happened? I don't know for sure, but I'm sure glad my friend recognized the guy.


i agree there is a lot of pedophiles. but are laws such as this one really going to work? Is letting this women go going to hurt the law? What if someone actually challenges the law?

Not every adult who is in the park without a child is a perv. I enjoy walking and sitting in parks with or without my daughter. This law would cause me to get a ticket and posiibly spend time in jail. There has to be better ways then to refuse someone the right to use the park.


 

SagaLore

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
So, the lesson here is if you are a pedophile, just claim you didn't see the sign?

No, the lesson is, if you're salivating over kids, do it standing.
 

Kadarin

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Welcome to America, "Land of the Free", where you get ticketed for sitting on a bench without your children present.
 

2cpuminimum

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What you fail to realize is that the purpose of the bench is to generate revenue from ticketing adults who didn't see the sign. That is the only realistic result of the posted policy. Besides, plenty of pedos just molest their own kids, nothing to stop them from doing that.
 

ruffilb

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Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: Mwilding
So, the lesson here is if you are a pedophile, just claim you didn't see the sign?
No, the lesson here is that if you are a pedophile, you must kidnap a child. Then you can legally sit at the park.

QFT!
 

gsellis

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Missing a few things... cannot be in that park without kids. She was on a bench, but really got the ticket for being in there. You also missed that police are not a jury. They just enforce the law. The courts determine if it was right or wrong (or the law needs to be changed.) If it is 'dumb,' that is for a judge or jury to decide.
 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

The city parks department said the rule is designed to keep pedophiles out of city parks, but a parks spokesman told the Daily News that the department hoped police would use some common sense when enforcing the rule.

The spokesman told the newspaper that ticketing a woman in the park in the middle of the day is not the way you want to enforce the rule.


Woman Ticketed For Sitting On Park Bench Without Kids :Q

But what about the Police Christmas party at the end of the year???
 

smack Down

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Originally posted by: gsellis
Missing a few things... cannot be in that park without kids. She was on a bench, but really got the ticket for being in there. You also missed that police are not a jury. They just enforce the law. The courts determine if it was right or wrong (or the law needs to be changed.) If it is 'dumb,' that is for a judge or jury to decide.

Thank you captain no sh!t, we are still allowed to comment on how stupid a law is right?
 

MagicConch

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I wonder if it actually does stop pedophiles. It is hard to believe it would, but I guess if they don't have a place to sit, standing seems suspicious?
 

mugs

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Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: Mwilding
So, the lesson here is if you are a pedophile, just claim you didn't see the sign?

No, they are trying to tell pedophiles that it is a BYOB park.

So wrong... so funny...
 
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there was an article abotu this in uncle john's bathroom reader.. but it was from europe..

they are trying to cut down on 'child molesters and kidnappers'
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: MagicConch
I wonder if it actually does stop pedophiles. It is hard to believe it would, but I guess if they don't have a place to sit, standing seems suspicious?

I can't see it actually stoping them. Not to mention it hurts more then it could help. It is not allowing people who just want to walk around the park.

If challenged im sure the law would be changed. it just seems like a stupid law.
 

gsellis

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Dec 4, 2003
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Originally posted by: smack Down
Originally posted by: gsellis
Missing a few things... cannot be in that park without kids. She was on a bench, but really got the ticket for being in there. You also missed that police are not a jury. They just enforce the law. The courts determine if it was right or wrong (or the law needs to be changed.) If it is 'dumb,' that is for a judge or jury to decide.

Thank you captain no sh!t, we are still allowed to comment on how stupid a law is right?
noobs aren't. :D