faustus: (gorilla)
faustus ([personal profile] faustus) wrote2008-10-03 12:54 am
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Nowt as Weird as Folk

Move along, there's nothing to see - if you have a low tolerance for being amused by news stories about sex offenders:

This is sex pest [XXXX XXXX], jailed for [...] performing a lewd act in a children's play park.
Homeless [XXXX XXXX] told police he had been "desperate" after studying the Daily Sport and Star newspapers earlier in the day.


[The prosecutor] said police were called to [location] after reports that a man had spent 10 minutes lying on his back performing a sex act.

The caller told police [XXXX XXXX] occasionally used the paper to disguise what he was doing. [...]

Mentally ill [XXXX XXXX] has convictions for [...] pretending to have sex with a wall in St George’s Place [...].


It's that final sentence that gets me - "Pretending". Is non-simulated sex with a wall a bigger or lesser offence? And "studying"? He's doing Media Studies?

[identity profile] buffysquirrel.livejournal.com 2008-10-03 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Jailing mentally ill people is just stupid. Although banning the newspapers mentioned wouldn't be.