Man Arrested for Being Naked in His Own House
Hey, see what you think about this one...
SPRINGFIELD, Va., Oct. 20 (UPI) -- A Virginia man said he is fighting the indecent exposure charge brought against him after he was spotted making coffee naked in his kitchen.
Eric Williamson, 29, of Springfield, said he was home alone Monday when he walked into the kitchen naked to make coffee at about 5:30 a.m., WTTG-TV, Washington, D.C., reported Tuesday.
"Yes, I wasn't wearing any clothes but I was alone, in my own home and just got out of bed. It was dark and I had no idea anyone was outside looking in at me," Williamson said.
Police said an unidentified woman who was walking with a 7-year-old boy spotted Williamson through a window and reported the scene to police. A Fairfax County Police spokesman said Williamson was arrested because investigators believe he wanted to be seen by the public.
However, Williamson, father of a 5-year-old girl, said that was not the case.
"I am a loving dad. Any of my friends and anyone knows that and there is not a chance on this planet I would ever, ever, ever do anything like that to a kid," he said. Man arrested for making coffee naked
posted by JimK at 1:47 PM
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This is a ridiculous story. Poor guy. The rest of the article says that he faces up to a year in jail!
I've actually done this before if no one else is home. I don't like curtains and we don't have them but our windows don't go to the floor so it's not really an x-rated event.
Does this guy walk around the house with no clothes on when his kid may wander in the room? If he was standing in the kitchen making coffee, didn't the counter block any view below the waist? How hard did this complaining lady have to look to get a good view?
If the police were really concerned, they should have spoken with him and told him not to do it again or to put curtains up. If he still kept doing it, with no curtains, then perhaps he should have gotten in trouble. But as it is...a year in prison?
Speaking of someone who should be in trouble -- did you hear that Kevin Jennings our Safe School Czar, funded a Harvard exhibit that prominently featured a poster and flyers which read:
"She had the girl
Bent her over a table,
Knickers down and shirt up...
The girl took it well"
If anyone here can defend this, I'd love to hear it because it makes me vomit.
Anon, how about a link to that "fact," which even Google can't find.
Many years ago a friend of mine was reported for a similar "offense" in her Takoma Park home. She got up at two or three in the morning, turned on a small lamp near her bedroom door so that she could see the stairs, and went down to the kitchen for water. Her next-door neighbor called the police and reported that she was exposing herself.
In her case, the Takoma Park police asked the neighbor why he was looking into her window at that hour, mentioned privacy and manners, and went back to work.
What I question in this story is the police reaction. Why did they not suggest that the homeowner try a bathrobe and tell the woman to stay off of private property and MHOB?
Your character assassination by spreading falsehoods makes everyone else vomit.
Here's the result of googling your "poster prose"
Anonymous, that poem you say Kevin Jennings had something to do with, I'm trying to figure out what is supposed to be offensive about it. What do you think is happening there? It sounds like two consenting individuals having a pleasant time.
Here's the link to the great art that Kevin Jennings helped to sponsor in his exhibit, including the poster with the phrase about raping a girl....you know, our Safe Schools Czar. Nice guy, eh?
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09d/harvard_actup/index.html
Thanks for clearing that up with the link from the virulently anti-gay group, MassResistance.
After reading their post and following several links, I've learned Kevin Jennings is a former member of ACT-UP and ACT-UP is the group that has the poster with the prose on it. The poster, and many others, are being displayed "at Harvard University's prestigious Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts" to mark ACT-UP's 20 years of AIDS activism.
When was Jennings an ACT-UP member? Per the 2008 video of his partner that MassResistance has posted, Jennings was a member of ACT-UP when they began dating fourteen years ago.
What a nice dose of reality for Anon! Jennings and his partner are a same-sex couple that has been together for 15 years now.
Average number of years first marriages that end in divorce in the US last: eight
It's good to know Kevin, like Dubya, has given up the wild days of his youth and settled down.
Yes, Bea, Mass Resistance acknowledges, in the first paragraph, that Jennings is a former member of theirs. BUT, the Act Up Exhibit is going on NOW through December 2009, and Kevin Jennings HELPED TO FUND IT RIGHT NOW. THIS YEAR.
I went to Harvard's website and pulled out the "Credits" section. I have capitalized Kevin Jennings' name.
Our Safe School Czar. Kevin Jennings. Nice, real nice.
Credits
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993 has been made possible by support from the Office of the Provost at Harvard University and the following endowment funds at the Harvard Art Museum: the Agnes Gund Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; the Alexander S., Robert L., and Bruce A. Beal Exhibition Fund; the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund; and the Charlotte F. and Irving W. Rabb Exhibition Fund. Gifts and grants have also been provided by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation; Open Gate: a Fund for Gay and Lesbian Life at Harvard University; Fred P. Hochberg and Tom Healy; KEVIN JENNINGS the Harvard College Women's Center, the Office for the Arts at Harvard, and Harvard Technology Services with special support from Apple Inc.
Kevin Jennings supports the good works of his alma mater, Harvard University, which is highlighting the 20 years of advocacy by ACT-UP during this, the 40th anniversary year of the Stonewall Riots.
I'll bet George W. Bush supports the good works of his graduate school, Harvard Business School, although the Google isn't turning up any...
that's interesting, Anon
thanks for alerting us to the sketchy activities of another of Obama's "czars"
I think it's obvious that this guy never would have cleared Congressional scrutiny and the czar technique needs to be reformed to require the ascent of the legislature
I don't remember you complaining about Bush's czars.
FactCheck.org reports:
Czars under the George W. Bush Administration (35)
Czars under the Barack H. Obama Administration (32)
Bea,
Regarding the fact that you feel Jennings was just supporting Harvard, and his money sort of accidentally ended up at the exhibit...it is quite clear that Jennings gave specifically to this event.
If someone does happen to be surprised and upset by the way their money is spent at an event, it is common for the person to express displeasure immediately, and to pull their name from the event -- immediately.
As of now, Kevin Jennings' name is still on the Harvard website. Guess he likes the way his money was spent.
Not sure why you or anyone would defend Jennings on this. Sanctioning an event that proudly displays the depiction of the rape of a little girl by a lesbian is indefensible -- one would think.
Anon, you flaming moron, Jennings has nothing to be ashamed about. ACT-UP formed as a direct response to the ignorant, hateful, and dangerous policies of the Reagan administration, who allowed a major catastrophic epidemic to grow out of control because it mostly only hit queers and niggers.
Gay people needed to establish an identity and they needed to talk about sex right now. You don't lolligag around using medical terminology when all your friends are dying. You don't say, "Remember always to use a condom for anal sex," you say, "don't put any cock in your ass without a rubber." They weren't worried about a bunch of puritans in 2009 clutching their pearls because the language was rough, they needed to communicate right now, to save lives.
It might not be an approach that would work now, but at that time it was just what the world needed, a punch in the face, and this Harvard exhibit recognizes the importance of that response and yes, it is shocking to see the graphical sexuality, but that's what it took, man.
Sorry anonymous but that new dog won't hunt. Everything negative said about Jennings will be seen through the "they said Jennings condoned statutory rape but that story turned out not to be true" prism.
You wanted Brewster to be the ghost that haunts Jennings but it backfired on you and now you can't get rid of him.
But to the subject of this blog, the naked guy was cute. Had I been there, I would have given him props.
and here is MY take on the hate group, Mass Resistance - http://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/2009/10/massachusetts-hate-group-behind-attack.html
"I don't remember you complaining about Bush's czars."
None of them was as sketchy as the Obama crowd. They would have sailed through congressional approval.
"ACT-UP formed as a direct response to the ignorant, hateful, and dangerous policies of the Reagan administration, who allowed a major catastrophic epidemic to grow out of control"
AIDS was introduced and sustained by widespread random promiscuity in the gay bathouses of SF and NY.
It couldn't be contained because the gay community resisted testing because they were afraid of being ostracized.
It's history, pal.
Try changing the future rather than the past.
Uh, what does AIDS have to do with raping a little girl?????? Why is that in the exhibit????
Also, Tsunami -- the last I heard, Jennings had written in his book a few years ago that when he was a teacher, a male teenaged student came to him, saying that he had met a guy in a bathroom and was having sex with him. In his book, Jennings said that he told the kid that he hoped he was using a condom. That was the extent of his action (or non action).
When it was talked about nationally, Jennings recently said that he now feels he should have done more at the time.
This is the last I heard of the story, but now you say the whole thing was discredited. How was it discredited? I haven't heard the update.
Also, to anyone -- have you ever read And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts? A gay friend of mine, who died of AIDS years ago, had asked me to read it back in the late 80s, which I did. It talks about the first person in the northern hemisphere to get AIDS. He was referred to as "patient zero" or something. He was a gay Canadian flight attendant and as he got worse and worse and got more sores on his body, he would go into the bathhouses, have sex in the dark, and then turn on the light and announce to the person that he had AIDS.
It's no wonder that the Reagan-era people were worried about the gay population spreading AIDS and focused their efforts on stopping the spread in that population. The sheer number of partners in those bathhouses was cause for concern.
Who knows? If attention had not been brought to this group's risk, perhaps they would have kept dying in large numbers. If I were a gay person, I'd be thankful to the Reagan-era people for caring enough to worry.
"Uh, what does AIDS have to do with raping a little girl?????? Why is that in the exhibit????"
Anon, I don't see anything in this exhibit about anybody "raping a little girl." I thought the lines you quoted were about one woman spanking another, which you may find disgusting or whatever but if it's consensual, it's a pretty common bedroom activity -- maybe you and your spouse do a little bit of that, if you don't you ought to try it! I see that the people who created this pdf file make it sound like one of the participants is underage, but it certainly doesn't say that in the text. Lots of us call a young woman a "girl."
It's history, pal.
ROFL What you've presented is spin. Here's are some facts about Ronald Reagan's lack of leadership on HIV/AIDS. He didn't even speak the word until seven years into his presidency, after thousands of Americans had died.
Reagan's AIDS Legacy
Silence equals death
As America remembers the life of Ronald Reagan, it must never forget his shameful abdication of leadership in the fight against AIDS
Ignoring AIDS: The Reagan Years
We take a look at the Reagan administration blatant refusal to deal with the issue of AIDS while thousands of Americans were dying
Angels, Reagan, and AIDS in America
This epic is, among other things, a searing indictment of how the Reagan administration's long silence stoked the plague of AIDS
Reagan's AIDSGATE
Reagan understood that a great deal of his power resided in a broad base of born-again Christian Republican conservatives who embraced a deeply reactionary social agenda of which a virulent, demonizing homophobia was a central tenet...What did this mean in practical terms? Most importantly, AIDS research was chronically under-funded. When doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health asked for more funding for their work on AIDS, they were routinely denied it. Between June 1981 and May 1982 the CDC spent less than $1 million on AIDS and $9 million on Legionnaire's Disease. At that point more than 1,000 of the 2,000 reported AIDS cases resulted in death; there were fewer than 50 deaths from Legionnaire's Disease.
he would go into the bathhouses, have sex in the dark, and then turn on the light and announce to the person that he had AIDS.
At least he told them. Ex-gay leader Michael Johnston infected gays with AIDS and didn't bother to tell them. What do you want to bet he learned to hate gays so much he wanted to infect them with the AIDS virus in his ex-gay therapy sessions?
Excuse me, I should have said ex-ex-gay leader Michael Johnston.
Reagan rejected vast sums of research for a disease that is 100% preventable.
Gays introduced it and spread it in this country through their irresponsible behavior.
Why should taxpayer have to pay to make buggery safe for the nation's deviants?
Reagan rejected vast sums of research for a disease that is 100% preventable.
Reagan sided with his Education Secretary William Bennett and other conservatives who said the Government should not provide sex education information. How do you prevent the spread of disease if you don't educate the population about it?
Reagan-era people were worried about the gay population spreading AIDS and focused their efforts...
What efforts?
"How do you prevent the spread of disease if you don't educate the population about it?"
at the time, this was being discussed ad nauseum in the media, who was giving the public a great education about AIDS prevention without spending a dime of tax money
let's face it, putting some reputable preachers on TV to speak about the Ten Commandments would have saved more lives than any type of condom education
and since that's not a government function, they need to stay out of it
making it safer to frequent bathhouses and dark city parks for random sex would not have been beneficial for society
fear of AIDS cleaned a lot of that activity out of our society and probably saved lives in the long run
if it had kept up, we might have worse diseases going around, hard as that is to believe
Yawn! Here we go again with the blaming LGBTS for AIDS.
But about that story regarding Jennings and Brewster - keep it up, anonymous. Because of the truth of the situation, you come across as a liar.
And by the way, Brewster said that he did NOT have sex. Nice try.
your hysteria is more interesting than your attempt to manipulate facts.
Okay -- I hadn't been following the Jennings story as closely as I should have. I just Googled and found information on the Jennings story regarding the boy and the condom. The creepy story is worse than I thought.
"Yawn! Here we go again with the blaming LGBTS for AIDS."
this attitude explains why AIDS is still disproportionately a gay disease
what's the point educating to those in stubborn denial
The point of the Canadian flight attendant story was to point out that the spread of AIDS started in the gay community, and so it is logical that the investigation first focused on that population.
it started there, it spread there, it became established there, and remains disproportionately there
it wouldn't be present in our society were it not for the behavior of the homosexual community
this historical fact needs to be taught to high school kids
Teach the Facts should support it
Anon. Read this: Social Networks and AIDS
Please don't post links unless you provide a summary of the
referenced article's main point.
Thank you very much.
Anonymous, you have no credibility here because you keep repeating the same talking points. When you are smacked down, you lurk until you repeat them again on another post.
I am hip to the game - if you can't beat someone by logic then try to get them angry via repeititon. Sad but says a lot about you.
I see the Gamecocks finally beat Vanderbilt tonight, Alvin
stay off the streets
the celebrating will be intense
"you have no credibility here because you keep repeating the same talking points."
you have none because you think calling something a "talking point" is an argument
"When you are smacked down, you lurk until you repeat them again on another post."
The "smackdown" is all in your mind. I repeat the truth when the lie is told again.
Nothing mysterious about it.
"I am hip to the game - if you can't beat someone by logic then try to get them angry via repeititon."
Actually, beating someone by logic gets them maddest of all. That's why I do it.
It's fun to watch 'em go beserk.
"Sad but says a lot about you."
I'll consider the source here.
i am a bit of a nudist years ago when i was about 24 (10 years ago). i went for a naked walk through a forest near my house where i rarely ever see anyone go..so i was enjoying my naked walk before a few people walked past. as i was walking back to my clothes. a police officer pulls me up. and charged me and gave me a court notice..it was some long notice saying all this stuff in it which wasnt true. went to court my mate came with me judge read it. you could see the judge holding back the laughter. looked up and said "this report is just crazy" do you work? yes. do you live with your family still. yes. ok your free to go, you just have to pay the court attendance. not long ago i was laying in my bed naked with my window open. i had no idea anyone could see me as its not facing the street. theres maybe one neighbours window which might possibly be able to see me.. but when i look in from my window from outside. standing back further you can't its almost impossible to see anything. so i was laying there next second there was knock on the window 2 female police officers. i stoop walked to my window. they told me the neighbour could see everything and to put some clothes on. if we hear back your still like this we will charge you
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