Picnic Table Follow-Up

[patgund]

Huron County drops charges against man accused of lewd behavior with picnic table

"Felony indecency charges against a Bellevue man accused of lewd behavior on a deck behind his house were dismissed yesterday, but other charges may be filed, Huron County Prosecutor Russell Leffler said.

Art Price, Jr., 40, was arrested March 20 after officials at a school near his home complained that he was engaging in lewd behavior with a picnic table on the deck - and submitted video evidence. He was charged with four felony counts of public indecency. But Mr. Leffler said the evidence didn't support felony charges, and his office would re-examine the case."

Comments

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

I guess the picnic table said it was consentual.

[tepintzin.livejournal.com]

It's that felony is too much; he was doing it on his own deck. Had he been doing this on someone else's deck or a public park, that might be felony. Personally, if there's no evidence that he was doing this *to be seen* I'd even drop the misdemeanor. That's not likely given that he was within viewing range of a school, but if for instance he only did this outside school hours (which I think was the case), yeah, misdemeanor.

[beki.livejournal.com]

I guess the table was of legal age...

[khavrinen.livejournal.com]

I still maintain that, unless there was an intermediary stage in which someone asked him to quit doing that and he refused, shooting three DVDs worth of video "for evidence" is a little creepy in and of itself. Any bets on how long it takes for that footage to wind up somewhere on the 'net? ( It probably already has, I'm just not sure I even want to try looking. )