Tennessee town’s troubled tramp tracker tells of tribulations
Wednesday, 27 August 2008 | 912 readers so far
What is the point of the black bar over her eyes?
Protect the children is getting to be a tired old mantra. People tend to get out of hand though. Voyeurs and exhibitionists are everywhere. As long as they aren’t forcing anyone to watch them, I have no problem with what they do.
Unfortunately, we live in a sensationalist society full of hypocrites and people who enjoy watching others get punished for things they’ve done that didn’t hurt anyone else.
BARTLETT, TN (WMC-TV) - Bartlett Grove Park sits in the middle of a subdivision. It’s a favorite spot for children, and was recently the site of an adult website porno shoot.
The video clip we discovered begins innocently enough.
“I thought I’d come out for the day,” says the “model.”
She then exposes herself on the playground slide.
“She’s definitely a tramp — just nasty,” parent Barbara Taylor said in reaction to the video.
The part that upsets me is not that someone decided to get naked on a slide. As far as I can tell there were no children around at the time. Other then upsetting parent Barbara Taylor, Bartlett’s official tramp detector, I fail to understand what this woman did that hurt anyone.
Here’s the part that upsets me:
Bartlett Police Capt. Tina Schaber said the girl in the video is clearly breaking a law.
“Public indecency right off the bat,” she said.
Police got on the case after Action News 5 clued them in.
“I don’t think this would be appropriate for an adult to see in a park — much less a child,” Schaber said.
According to Schaber, the model and those video-taping her could be charged with a number of other crimes.
“These days, who knows?” she said. “She could be over 18 — she could be under 18.”
What crime? Anytime someone brings up crime the first thing I want to know is who got hurt. In this case the answer is no one. Don’t we have enough societal problems without making a mountain out of a molehill?
The unfortunate thing about our legal system is that anyone who disagrees with anything you do can probably find a person in a uniform with a gun who is willing to punish you for something. I’d much prefer we lived in a system where you actually had to commit a crime before authorities would come running with tasers and citation pads at the ready.
Who got hurt? No one? Then mind your own business.
1 August 27th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
OzJ says:
So if I speed down the highway at 120 MPH cutting in and out of traffic but I don’t get in an accident or hurt anyone, I’m not breaking the law? I understand the point about being overzealous with making new laws and enforcing seemingly trivial laws when there are dangerous crimes being committed daily. However, I don’t think the argument of ‘no one got hurt’ is really that defendable.
2 August 28th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Coralie Solange says:
I think the town is overreacting. Clearly, there was nobody in the park to witness this and to be emotionally disturbed by it. Otherwise, the police would have been called WHILE they were filming.
So, does the article give any indication as to which one of these anti-indecency crusaders was scouring the porn section at their local internets just to be sure their town’s parks weren’t being used for yucky naked things?
3 August 28th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Trevor says:
OzJ,
I politely disagree. If no one got hurt no crime was committed. My rebuttal to your speeding argument is that if slower people stayed in the right hand lane where they belong the people doing 120MPH wouldn’t be weaving in and out.
It’s all about the mindset. Autobahns work just fine in Europe. If someone is naked and touching someone else on the other side of a wall from you then why are you worried about it? Same thing should apply to a park unless there are other people around.