Free to swing

As it is Friday, we do not want to read heavy issue, so we have a look at an amusing news item from the past week which comes from Springfield, Virginia. (Yes the place does exist and no, the Simpson's don't really live there).

The story features an unlucky 29 year old driver, named Eric Williamson.
One fine morning (it was for him then anyway), Eric woke at around 5:30. As millions of people do that time of the morning, Eric needed a shot of caffeine to get his head clear for the day.

As his housemates were not there and a person who obviously who loves to swing free, Eric decided to go and make the coffee in the clothes that God gave him at birth. No problem there.

By some cruel trick of fate, at the same time naked Eric was making his coffee, an unidentified woman and a seven year old boy came strolling past. As one does I guess, when passing people's houses, Ms X (as we will call the peeping tom) noticed that there was a naked man, in his own kitchen, making coffee.

Obviously Ms X was traumatised by this and prompty phoned the police, as one does when you peek into somebody else's window and see them naked. (I am sure she kept an eye on the perp as well till the cops arrived, just in case he made a break for it)

The Yanks, being the Yanks, arrested Eric and charged him with indecent exposure, which carries a maximum penalty of $2 000,00 or a year behind bars.
The lesson- you cannot be naked in your own place of residence, just in case somebody breaks the law and takes a peek through an open curtain.When this happens, somehow, you become the criminal and the dirty peeping tom becomes the poor victim. Makes no sense to me. 

Ms X, was of course not charged for actually invading the guy's privacy, which in essence she did. Great lesson for the seven year old though. He now knows nudity is wrong, but it is peachy to go round peeping into people's windows.