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Via Reddit, yesterday's faddish streaker is today's sex offender.

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Comments to "Honk If You See Something You Like":

An Honest Question | September 25, 2007, 5:33pm | #

I wonder how many upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherer kids were psychologically scarred for life before the invention of clothing.

Steven | September 25, 2007, 5:40pm | #

I wonder how many upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherer kids were psychologically scarred for life before the invention of clothing.

That was then and now is now. He is 18, a legal adult. There could of been some children 17 or younger there who could have been harmed by this. Since he has shown the propensity to harm children he should be registered to protect them.

ktc2 | September 25, 2007, 5:42pm | #

Yes, nudity is just so horrible. Those poor 17 year old children could be scarred for life! Get real people, get over it, move on.

An Honest Question | September 25, 2007, 5:44pm | #

Steven, just how were children harmed? Why is the natural human body something to be "protected from?"

Brandybuck | September 25, 2007, 5:44pm | #

This is ridiculous. Nudity is not sex, and streaking is not a sexual act. Not even the Puritans were as prudish as today's society. Earlier we had the sex offenders who merely slapped girls' bottoms in school. Who's going to be tomorrows dangerous sex offender? The boy who snaps a girls bra? The boy who peeks into the girls gym?

Taktix® (L-FL) | September 25, 2007, 5:48pm | #

Here's a mind melter:

What if one of those 17-year-olds turned 18 as he was crossing the stage?

Would the child in question be only half-scarred?

M | September 25, 2007, 5:48pm | #

Little Girl: I'll show you mine if you show me yours!
Lttle Boy: Hell, I'm not stupid: Girls get money to show theirs, boys go to jail if they show theirs.

From a German cartoon, uh, strip.

J sub D | September 25, 2007, 5:50pm | #

I wasn't always the wise, mature, sage you've come to know on these pages. Once, I too, streaked. At the Lakewood Mall, which I believe is in Waukegan, Illinois. Sex offender, it means less every day. The wussification af America continues.

The Police | September 25, 2007, 5:57pm | #

J sub D,

A squad car is being sent as we speak.

J sub D | September 25, 2007, 5:58pm | #

On the video, Radley, You didn't need to do that to me. That was evil.

Tym | September 25, 2007, 6:00pm | #

Here's a mind melter:

What if one of those 17-year-olds turned 18 as he was crossing the stage?

Would the child in question be only half-scarred?


Kind of like Schrödinger's cat



Tym | September 25, 2007, 6:01pm | #

I wasn't always the wise, mature, sage you've come to know on these pages. Once, I too, streaked. At the Lakewood Mall, which I believe is in Waukegan, Illinois. Sex offender, it means less every day. The wussification af America continues.

I believe I may have peed in the woods when camping before.

The Police | September 25, 2007, 6:07pm | #

Tym, a squad car is being sent to you as well. Your words will be used against you.

Someone | September 25, 2007, 6:16pm | #

When what is unnatural is set up as moral do not be surprised if people act in unnatural ways. Such as:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/167156.html

Taktix® (L-FL) | September 25, 2007, 6:25pm | #

Me ex and I defiled the Cathedral of Learning while in college, does that count?

ellipsis | September 25, 2007, 6:25pm | #

One word: Utah.

In a lot of more cosmopoliton areas, social nudity is becoming more accepted. WNBR is really getting popular in my area. But hickvilles are probably viewing urban areas with distain, and the social values that come with it.

John Payne | September 25, 2007, 6:36pm | #

Ellipsis is right that people probably wouldn't have flipped out so much if it weren't in Utah--where they don't allow music.

Also, when you viewed the article, did anyone else get an ad for Disney World? I don't think the streaker is a sex offender but certainly the algorithm that placed that ad is.

Finally, Tym, I have a friend who was arrested for peeing in the woods while camping. Our neighbor didn't like us because we were loud and had already called the police on us for that, so when he saw my buddy take a leak--supposedly anyway because none of us remember it....but we were really hammered--he called the cops, and they took him in. Happy ending: because the only witness never showed up for the trial, there was no evidence and the charges were dropped.

An Honest Question | September 25, 2007, 6:40pm | #

Ellipsis, unfortunately I have heard this type of thing happening in places other than historical Deseret. This is a national phenomonon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret

J sub D | September 25, 2007, 6:44pm | #

I believe I may have peed in the woods when camping before.

The woods? As an urban adult male who has never, ever relieved himself in an alley, not once, I think you should have been prosecuted just like all those other flashers. You pervert.

Dave B. | September 25, 2007, 6:52pm | #

Barely related? Cheap pun.

sean | September 25, 2007, 7:42pm | #

this is exactly why I only beat off in the movie theatre on Monday nights 5 weeks in from the films release

J sub D | September 25, 2007, 8:16pm | #

Me ex and I defiled the Cathedral of Learning while in college, does that count?

Cathedrals (of any kind) count double. Congrats.

Rick Barton | September 25, 2007, 8:38pm | #

Radley,

Cuza that insipid vid you subjected us to and cuz you said to honk if we saw something that we liked, here's a stellar vid that has a honk reference. It's The Cars - "You Might Think"!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8oZZJojROo&mode=related&search=

Anonymo the Anonymous | September 25, 2007, 9:26pm | #

Juanita + spell check = Steven. Ignore him.

An Honest Question | September 25, 2007, 9:41pm | #

Who is Juanita? Where can I find a list of Juanita's greatest hits?

Lamar | September 25, 2007, 11:49pm | #

I was showering and I thought, this is porn...I am totally naked....then I thought of how I was effected by all those showers and nakedness when I was 15 and I thought....how did I ever survive?

Rick Barton | September 26, 2007, 1:36am | #

Tangentially ON TOPIC cuz this wonderful tune was originally called "Sex Offender"- When folks fisrt saw the raw verve that Blondie put out in this vid back in 76, they musta just been blown away! And Debbie was sooo cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ6fpSdQQKc#TrF8t3ODNrs

I think that watching Blondie vids and listening and dancing around to their music is like one a the most fun things you can do with your pants on. BTW, here's a hint of what I consider to be the most fun you can have with your pants on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4IqAlDdZY

smartass sob | September 26, 2007, 4:21am | #

I believe I may have peed in the woods when camping before.

I shit in a five gallon bucket once at a trash dump out in the woods. But I emptied the bucket and left it for some other scavenger to pick up. (Someone did, too - I went back later and looked.)
:-)

an even more honest question | September 26, 2007, 4:26am | #

Who is Juanita? Where can I find a list of Juanita's greatest hits?

Hits, shmits...where can I see her tits?

andronoid | September 26, 2007, 7:11am | #

A way better video on the future of streaking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phSd9t9vdvo

VM | September 26, 2007, 9:43am | #

Honest question:

here ya go

Bishop of Forbes | September 26, 2007, 2:07pm | #

Taktix® (L-FL) | September 25, 2007, 6:25pm | #
Me ex and I defiled the Cathedral of Learning while in college, does that count?

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Big Deal - I defiled all 26 CoL Nationality Rooms each with a young lady of the proper ethnic background, dressed in, or undressed in, their native costume.

Late comer to the party | October 8, 2007, 9:30pm | #

Why is it blocked? Why can't I see the video? Where did everyone go????