So, this morning I’m watching the local news and a report comes on about some Middle School girl who was arrested for snapping a nude picture of a classmate and then distributing it on the ‘net.
WESTPORT - Westport police have charged a 12-year-old girl with distributing a nude photo of a classmate.
Police say they started investigating in mid-May after hearing a nude snapshot was being e-mailed between students at Coleytown Middle School. According to police, the photograph was taken during a video chat.
Yep, that’s Westport, CT the (former) home of convicted felon Martha Stewart. Now, watching this story, you might simply think that privileged kids are, well, stupid (not realizing that this isn’t just some schoolyard prank, but — you know — child porn), and well a federal offense, for which she could possibly carry a lifelong stigma of having to register on a sex offender registry.
As the story played out on the tube, (complete with the girl’s lawyer trying to explain that she shouldn’t be prosecuted because a) it was a joke gone bad, b) she didn’t know better and c) I stopped listening, because all I could do was shake my head in disbelief as I couldn’t figure out how kids could be this flat-out stupid.
Then the story that followed was one on a guy who was fired from his job because he instructed a subordinate to paint a swastika on the desk of a co-worker. The fired supervisor was attempting to explain that he shouldn’t be fired and go to jail for perpetuating a hate crime because a) it was a joke gone bad, b) and again I stopped listening.
Just when I began to realize that the kid probably had the best defense in the world (“Hey our parents aren’t any smarter than us”), came the following story…
(06/17/08) BRIDGEPORT - Bridgeport police say they arrested a city man after he ordered his pet to attack two officers. Lucky for them that 9-foot-long pythons aren’t very obedient.
Yep, he ordered his snake to attack the cops. I was going to crack wise about this story, but I’m not entirely sure what I’d have to do to it to turn it into more of a joke than it already is.
Me? I’m going back to drinking heavy and reading about guys who wear their underwear on the outside of their clothes, to fight crime, because it is simply way-more believable.
The Perfessor
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Westport, the former home of Walt, too.
Coleytown Jr. High all the way, baby!
Wait, seriously, who are you again?
The Perfessor