{"id":193969,"date":"2008-11-04T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/04\/the-law-is-a-fool-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T23:22:00","slug":"the-law-is-a-fool-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/04\/the-law-is-a-fool-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law is a Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that police arrested 12 people, and cited them for indecent exposure, at the annual naked pumpkin run, in which the participants, &#8220;wearing nothing but pumpkins on their heads&#8221;, run through a mall.<\/p>\n<p>While I think that stupidity should be a punishable offense, it now appears that if convicted, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/news\/2008\/nov\/03\/naked-runners-face-registering-sex-offenders\/\">the defendants will be required to register as sex offenders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is nuts, and the police are nuts for charging them as such, particularly since they could have cited them for public indecency, which does not require registration.<\/p>\n<p>While they are at it, perhaps they should fix the law in Colorado, because streaking is a class I misdemeanor, and public indecency is a class I petty offense, which does not require registration, so having sex in public is better in the eyes of the law than simply being naked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that police arrested 12 people, and cited them for indecent exposure, at the annual naked pumpkin run, in which the participants, &#8220;wearing nothing but pumpkins on their heads&#8221;, run through a mall. While I think that stupidity should be a punishable offense, it now appears that if convicted, the defendants will be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}