So you can show your boobs but not your wiener?

whatshisname: So you can show your boobs but not your wiener?

Well, not at the same time. Unless you're the Lady Chablis, of course.

So heterosexuality is illegal now?

Whenever the Columbus crime rate dips, police just go out and create some.

monkeydoodledandy: So heterosexuality is illegal now?

Exposing yourself in public is illegal. But...this WAS entrapment.

FTFA: Eventually, she asked to see Garrison's penis; he unzipped his pants and complied.

entrapment: n. A defense to criminal charges alleging that agents of the government induced a person to commit a crime he or she otherwise would not have committed.

In criminal procedures, a complete defense. The defendant must show that officers induced the defendant to commit a crime not contemplated by him, for the purpose of instituting a criminal prosecution against him.


I looked this up just to make sure. This definitely sounds like a textbook case.

AntiNorm: monkeydoodledandy: So heterosexuality is illegal now?

Exposing yourself in public is illegal. But...this WAS entrapment.

FTFA: Eventually, she asked to see Garrison's penis; he unzipped his pants and complied.

I understand "public," but it's not like he swung it out and did cartwheels with a neon pointing at it. If anything the attention of any onlookers was brought on by the foobs in plain sight of anyone walking by.

I believe that this would work on whatever the percentage of the population of men that is straight, and probably some of the gays too.

Robo73: I believe that this would work on whatever the percentage of the population of men that is straight, and probably some of the gays too.

precisely. I'd bet that if not being let in on the secret, some of the cops would have fallen for that.

GreenAdder: I looked this up just to make sure. This definitely sounds like a textbook case.

You're on to something, from the full article:

But such operations veer dangerously close to entrapment, say lawyers, civil libertarians and defendants who've been caught in sting operations.

I was arrested in a public park for showing my penis to a topless woman after she asked to see it. I got off though.

After reading the definition GreenAdder posted, I have to go with entrapment. I seriously doubt he would have whipped it out if the topless woman hadn't asked him to.

shouldn't this at least be a [followup]?

nobozo: Whenever the Columbus crime rate dips, police just go out and create some.

Very true statement.
This story is just the tip of the iceberg with Columbus.
Keep in mind, this is the place where cops walk up on your porch and card you for holding a beer.
Think you're safe in the hot tub on your raised deck in your back yard? Maybe not. If the cops see you drinking and can get to you by walking up outside stairs, you better have your "Papers" ready.

Make the police register as sex offenders for soliciting a sex crime.

So she's topless, she asked to see it, and he's the pervert? WTF? What guy wouldn't take it out when asked?

badgerb: I was arrested in a public park for showing my penis to a topless woman after she asked to see it. I got off though.

HE SHOOTS HE SCORES!

badgerb: I was arrested in a public park for showing my penis to a topless woman after she asked to see it.

But are you getting a kick out of these replies?

I got off though.

Worthless without pics.

SHE ASKED HIM TO! How is that not entrapment?? It would be one thing if he had just whipped out in the middle of their conversation, but the woman (who is an agent of the police) ASKED HIM TO. That is the definition of entrapment. Forgetting all that, doesn't this police department have anything better to do than wasting resources catching "perverts"?

I am just glad that a hardened criminal is finally off the streets. The world is a much safer place now.

badgerb: I was arrested in a public park for showing my penis to a topless woman after she asked to see it. I got off though.

I see what you did there. And ewww.

Dear Penthouse,

I never thought I'd be writing anything like this so I'm getting a kick out of some of these replies.

If whipping it out because a beautiful topless woman asks me to is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

Stuff like this might work on average joes but it'd never catch a congressman.

Shenanigans!!!

It is a well known fact men lose their minds when confronted with a nice rack.

This happened to me once, but I didn't unzip, just pulled
my pants leg up...

ZAZ: Make the police register as sex offenders for soliciting a sex crime.

Plus voyeurism.

whatshisname: So you can show your boobs but not your wiener?

Actually yes, it is now legal

They're probably counting on the guy not affording an attorney and having to get a half assed public defender. That's the only way we won't beat the rap.

I wonder if the poor schmuck has to register as a sex offender now. If so, that's comedy gold.

This is entrapment plain and simple. His charges should be dropped and he should receive a formal apology. And the officer in charge should be arrested and brought up on charges. These are things that happen in a police state not a free society.

Falcc: Stuff like this might work on average joes but it'd never catch a congressman.

Well...not outside of a men's room or a hotel room, anyway.

/trying to cover both sides

wow...farking retarted

Oops, accidentally forward clicked...

Anyway, I was going to say it is now legal in NYC but then I realized I didn't read enough of the article to know that it was in NYC. *shrug*

In any case, this is pure farking bullshiat. There's not a straight guy out there who wouldn't take it out for a hot, half-naked women who is flirting with him and asks.

It's been said a million times already, but seriously what straight guy wouldn't do this when asked by an (assumingly) appealing topless woman?


I'm so glad this horrible sexual predator is now safely off the streets, and his life is forever damaged.

Dear Diary- Jackpot.

Chicks these days are naked even when they're dressed.

I'm suprised this doesn't happen more often . . . .

PizzaJedi81: Falcc: Stuff like this might work on average joes but it'd never catch a congressman.

Well...not outside of a men's room or a hotel room, anyway.

/trying to cover both sides

That's sort of the statement I was trying to subtly suggest, yeah.

This guy is gonna sue the police department and retire comfortably with his winnings...

At which point the officer in charge will be fired and taste some of the career-ruining fail that they tried to deliver to this poor schmuck.

First off, the people complaining of entrapment, it isn't a police officer asking someone to commit a crime, it's enticing a person that would normally not commit such a crime into doing it.

That said, it still could EASILY be argued as entrapment.

I mean seriously, you would be able to arrest 90% of the populace using this "sting".

Somebody from over there, preferably with some connections, needs to find the names and addresses of these cops, and then organize an "asshole intervention" for them. Maybe, just maybe, they could become 10% decent, which would be a huge improvement over the -500% they're at now.

I would feel kind of obligated to show her mine if I was impressed with hers.

Freak: SHE ASKED HIM TO! How is that not entrapment?? It would be one thing if he had just whipped out in the middle of their conversation, but the woman (who is an agent of the police) ASKED HIM TO. That is the definition of entrapment. Forgetting all that, doesn't this police department have anything better to do than wasting resources catching "perverts"?

If she was an agent of the police it would be entrapment. However, nothing in the story says she was employed or working with the police in any way.

bitteroldman: nobozo: Whenever the Columbus crime rate dips, police just go out and create some.

Very true statement.
This story is just the tip of the iceberg with Columbus.
Keep in mind, this is the place where cops walk up on your porch and card you for holding a beer.
Think you're safe in the hot tub on your raised deck in your back yard? Maybe not. If the cops see you drinking and can get to you by walking up outside stairs, you better have your "Papers" ready.


Sheesh! Makes me ashamed to say I live in Ohio. Thank god it is not Columbus tho.

So, cop exposes herself, no crime. Asks bystander to expose himself, crime. Sounds pretty farked up to me.

it's not news, its Déjà Fark

Common sense should tell a person to not pull out their dick in public but a lot of people lack common sense. I know boobs are powerfull but they are not that powerfull.

So a topless woman in a park engages in conversation with a man and then asks him to take out his penis. What do they expect the guy to do, say, "Sorry, I can't do that. It's illegal,"?

Give me a break. Totally 100% entrapment.

Now, I am not a legal expert, but I did do a google search of entrapment and:

Entrapment: "Government agents entrapped him if three things occurred:

- First, the idea for committing the crime came from the government agents and not from the person accused of the crime.

- Second, the government agents then persuaded or talked the person into committing the crime. Simply giving him the opportunity to commit the crime is not the same as persuading him to commit the crime.

- And third, the person was not ready and willing to commit the crime before the government agents spoke with him.

On the issue of entrapment the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not entrapped by government agents. "

1) It was not his idea as it was suggested by the police.

2) It was the police officer who persuaded him to commit the crime through physical arousal and verbal manipulation.

3) Prior to speaking to the police he had no intentions of committing a crime.

Seems like entrapment to me. Someone with better knowledge of the law can add more to that.