Another stupid sex offender case

laissez-faire · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:35

I don't want people to think that I am against the sex offenders register because I view things like rape and paedophilia with the absolute utmost disgust, but over the summer there was a questionable case I posted about a man who was placed on the register for taking pictures of girls legs.

Now there is this in Telegraph today. I thought it might have been a wind-up but I don't think it is.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/26/nsex126.xml

Sorry but..... this guy was in a hostel, had locked his own bedroom door and pleasuring himself on what was presumably his own bike? Pretty bloody weird but surely that was his own right?

This is just crazy, right?

Sam

Edit - make sure you read the comment too: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/society/bryonygordon/october07/bicyclesex.htm

Tom0 · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:38

Its weird, but hes well within his rights to do... that... it... i mean ummm, you know.

The Running Man · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:38

what difference does it make if its a bike, or if it is a hand? Either way there is little/no impact upon anyone else...

Unless it was someone elses bike? and it was some kind of sick joke?

FTM · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:40

I dont know whats wierder..that he was having sex with a bike...or the bloke in 1993 who was convicted of having sex with a pavement??!!

in the end it only happened because he was seen by people who had entered the room..if he had just told them to wait it would never have come to this and we wouldnt be talking about it

sex offenders register seems a bit odd as well..unless its for all sexual offences such as things like flashing/indecent exposure..it might just be a mandatory thing these days whether you have sex with people/inanimate objects/animals/corpses etc

Welshy · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:40

Made me snigger, and this made me actually lol -

Karl Watkins, an electrician, was jailed for having sex with pavements in Redditch, Worcs, in 1993.

But in all seriousness, I suppose in some sick way he can do whatever he wants if he's not harming others.

FTM · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:41

it doesnt say what he was actually found guilty of..I'm guessing either indecent exposure or 'lewd' behaviour

Bar · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:42

Comment kind of sums up my thoughts on the matter.

It also makes a farce of the sex offenders register which should be a serious artifact.

[edit]
I remember the story in 1993 and from memory he was warned many times before being prosecuted. You can understand that case slightly more as he was doing it in the public eye as opposed to in his room.

Raumarik · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:43

He locked the door so its not even as if he's doing it in public, it seems unfair even though he's clearly a bit odd!

Lysander · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:45

Why did the hotel manager call the police?? I'd have laughed it off.

leaskovski · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:52

lol! I don't if i should be laughing or angry!?

Moredhel · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:52

Perhaps he just carried on after being walked in upon... It's the only way I can think of it being a crime.

laissez-faire · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:53

I feel so sorry for the guy - it isn't just that he was penalised in court, his name is in newspapers all over the country. He must feel so ashamed.

penski · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:54

He must have been Bikecurious...

*looks shifty*

CHORED!

*n

leaskovski · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:54

I am seriosuly thinking he must have been drunk or stoned. Why on earth would one get off on a bike?

PMSL!

gumbald · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:56

That got a huge laugh from me, mainly due to the last sentence about the man with pavements?!

AJUK · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:59

What utter madness. A bicycle is an inanimate object so there cannot be any abuse and it is not as if he was undertaking this strange but harmless act in the local shopping centre is it?

I hope the guy gets let off and compensated, perhaps in the form of Halfords vouchers.

Muffin` · 30 Oct 2007 at 13:03

I'd love to know how he is deemed to be a danger to men, women or children in a sexual way. Might restore some credibility to the prosecution service.

Duke · 30 Oct 2007 at 13:15

What an odd thing to do. I agree that it is a waste Police/Court time though.

Stretch · 30 Oct 2007 at 13:24

Is a hostel deemed a public place? If so maybe he's guilty. If not the cleaners certainly shouldn't have gone in the room uninvited.

TheCrow · 30 Oct 2007 at 13:40

Total joke! If they walked in on a couple and they carried on there would be no problem. I could imaging that they do that quite a lot in hotels (walk in on people not bikes

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Just more evidence that our court system is a useless joke of a system.

Another stupid sex offender case

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