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Alabama teenager, Christian Adamek, committed suicide earlier this month after he was caught streaking at a school gridiron game. It's hardly the stuff hardened criminals are made of, and yet he was threatened with legal action and the possibility of being added to the sex offender's registry for indecent exposure.
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So sad--& absolutely ridiculous!!
ReplyDeleteThere's a time and place for zero tolerance ... but this isn't it.
DeleteAmerica has gone off the deep end: it is a madhouse. There is no common sense to these laws. Could also be noted, that anyone who video recorded the streaking could have also been arrested as a sex offender for 'having child pornography' and if they posted it to YouTube, then that'd be another offense of 'distributing child pornography'. This is what happens when a country has it's moral roots in Victorian phobia about sex, is litigious to the 10th degree and generates public fear (in this case against 'sex offenders') to reap political power.
ReplyDeleteYou know it's getting bad when you can accidentally, without even realising it, break such a big law.
DeleteHalftime streaking was a fad when I was in College. Alcohol and a dare were usually involved. Those caught were punished, but not severely, generally probation. The problem is with "Rules" thinking and common sense are taken from the equation. Your post is spot on.
ReplyDeleteIt's just so sad ... and so completely pointless.
DeleteIf I clinch my teeth any tighter at this horrifying story, I might need an oral surgeon. What happened to this poor boy was ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteIt is horrifying isn't it.
DeleteMust go back and hide under a rock now...
ReplyDeleteSometimes that's the only way to deal with it.
DeleteDoes seem a bit much doesn't it? Of course these things have to be controlled but surely not to those lengths.
ReplyDeleteIt just seems like such an overreaction to me.
DeleteThis is very very sad. Yes we sometimes do go too far with these laws The problem with them is that they're not used on a case-by-case basis, which they should be.
ReplyDeleteA little common sense would go a long way in situations like this.
DeleteAll of this ridiculousness has gone way too far. And, unfortunately, I don't see us ever coming back from it. It's only going to get worse from here.
ReplyDeleteQuite possibly. Either that or the next generation will get jack of it all and go back to being sensible.
DeleteWhatever happened to sex offenders being ACTUAL sex offenders? I had a friend who really, really had to pee as he was walking home one night at like 2 in the morning. He stopped to pee on a bush, and a police officer across the street saw him. He told him, "you're lucky I'm not writing you up for this, because this bush is on the corner of an elementary school, which means you'd have to register as a sex offender."
ReplyDeleteThat's right, because the bush was on the CORNER of a school. At 2 in the morning. When no children were even remotely in sight. Tell me how that even makes sense.
Jeez if everyone who'd ever been naked in public got charged, we'd all be in a world of trouble!
DeleteAs am American, I want to apologize on behalf of my country for most citizens and lawmakers no longer having common sense or critical thinking skills. This story upset me to no end and I was so bothered that I couldn't even formulate a response or a rebuttal. We are through the looking glass and I fear there is no coming back. :( My faith in the future lost a few points with this.
ReplyDeleteIt's okay, we don't blame you personally :)
DeleteSo, so sad when a child makes such a permanent decision. I think we adults forget how monumental things were, growing up, how strongly we felt our emotions...
ReplyDeletePoor boy.
Pearl
I remember being that age, I felt like everything was the end of the world, and it was always ALWAYS my fault. The self-centeredness of youth.
DeleteA blogger called LegalMist wrote a post recently about teens (16, 17) having consensual sex and the boys being labeled as sex offenders. If that had been done when I was a teenager, darn near every boy I went out with would have been committing some sort of crime.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
It does seem that people go out of their way these days to villianise kids.
DeleteI seriously doubt her killed himself simply because they threatened to charge him as a sex offender. I know from personal experience that there must have been a hell of a lot more going on in his head for him to take such a drastic step of suicide.
ReplyDeleteIf he was an adult I'd agree with you, but at the age of 15 I remember how seriously I took everything. How everything was life or death. Maybe there was more going on there, but I could also see it happening if this was the only catalyst.
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