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Police baffled by mini-outbreak of nakedness
By adamg on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 7:56am
Tufts Daily reports campus police responded to a report of six women standing around with no clothes on:
"I have no idea why, I have no idea," TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said. "They put their clothes back on," he said, "and were sent on their way."
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Question: why are women
Question: why are women "sent on their way", while if this were dudes, they'd get a nice "sexual offender" charge?
Don't you know that it's
Don't you know that it's different for girls?
Pictures Comming Soon
Expect to see the official TUPD photos up online soon.
Also, they weren't naked in
Also, they weren't naked in the first place. I doubt anyone would be out arresting guys for wearing only boxers; moreover, that Santa Speedo run would be full of sex offenders.
Ahhh, Adam had a misleading
Ahhh, Adam had a misleading headline.
Carry on, nothing to see here. Naked and parading around in their underwear !=.
They weren't naked when the po-po arrived
But the report says police were summoned to respond to a report of naked women. Perhaps they got semi-dressed in the meantime - although an acquaintance of the female persuasion tells me it would be impossible for six women to all be putting on bras at the same time behind a single car - too many elbows would be flying.
are you sure
that it isn't already?
Campus police tend to go
Campus police tend to go easier on college students.
Recall that, until recently in MA, most all the students on m college campus could be convicted of drug charges that would send them to jail and make them convicted felons.
And *women* in college have a *double* get-out-of-jail-free card.
Really?
Do you have a reference or statistics for this? One way to eliminate disparity is to verify that it actually exists and then quantify the magnitude of the gaps and patterns of occurance.
That said, college cops may "go easier" because they are more accountable for the safety of the students than, say, some municipal cops in New York State. They can't just beat someone to death over a cup of beer and a smirk and then "copsplain" it away to a jury after impounding video of the event when their employer has a certain relationship with the students.
Up-close anecdotal
Up-close anecdotal evidence.
You can't really do stats when half of the phenomenon in question is that things tend to intentionally *not* get reported or pursued.
Besides colleges perhaps having a somewhat different philosophy about the role of the justice system, and a relatively innocuous population, colleges *really* don't want to be known as the place where parents send their children to get criminal records, nor do they want the lawsuits from parents.
I don't see a problem here
n/t
What's the problem?
Didn't you read the part about them being Tufts students? (shudder)
Bedbugs
Bedbugs.
What exactly is the law? MGL
What exactly is the law?
MGL 272-53 says the penalty for indecent exposure is at most 6 months in jail and a $200 fine. But it doesn't define what indecent exposure is.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/art... describes a nonbinding ballot question in western Mass encouraging changing the law so women could take off their shirts whereever men can.
?? You can leave your
hat on... ??
the courts have generally defined the law as
... "an intentional act of lewd exposure, offensive to one or more persons". this definition actually goes back the case of Commonwealth vs. Broadland (1943), so it's a wee bit old.
A more recent decision
Commonwealth v. Ora, states public nudity is actually OK as long as advanced warning is given and nobody is "shocked and alarmed."
yeah, my understanding...
(and note: ianal) is that the response of the people who see you is part of the charge. for indecent exposure, you need somebody to be offended, and for open and gross lewdness, you need somebody to be alarmed or shocked.
so really, i think the moral here is "only take off all your clothes around people who don't care".
Two guesses
1. This was a mid-term rehearsal for the final's week naked run
2. Tufts is the most expensive college in New England. Maybe they couldn't afford clothing. Maybe they found a creative second job.
Nope-
I do believe that my alma mater Bates College is the most expensive college in New England, at about $54,500/year. There have to be less expensive ways to get part-time work at Starbucks.
However, Tufts Medical School is the most expensive institution of higher learning in the country, at around $89,000/year - a figure that goes up nearly $3,000 every year.
Like the police, I too
Like the police, I too respond to naked college girls.
I'm sure the dispatch tapes
I'm sure the dispatch tapes go something like this....
"Car 12, Can you respond to a report of six naked females"
"Car 12, we have that. On our way"
"Ummmmm, Cars 1 thru 11 we are going to go back them up in case they need a hand"
mmmm
Six is never enough.
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