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Imponderable #12: Kansas City Missouri

12 Aug

August 12, 2011

When you read this article, the obvious answer is mental illness, but I get the feeling this man is competent to stand trial.

I need to add that other reports point out that when caught, his pants were still unzipped. So he wasn’t exactly caught red-handed, but you get the idea.

As I said I think he is competent to stand trial and I base it on the fact that he knows he has the right to remain silent and also his statement to the cops. So let’s assume his necrophilia statement was a bad attempt at an excuse. Granted he may still not be mentally stable but he seems to know right from wrong. From the little info available online, he does not seem to be a homeless person. It appears that he is a citizen who, to be charitable, made a bad decision.
So playing along, let’s pretend that we believe his necrophilia excuse.

Why would a man decide to have sex with a corpse in the middle of a busy street in broad daylight?

The question is Imponderable.

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Cops and Strippers.

8 Aug

August 8, 2011

I originally slated this for a slot with The Imponderables but read the article and I think you’ll see why I changed my mind.

Before we go any further, I need to get something out of the way. “Biggins Gentleman’s Club.” BWAH HA HA! Lovin’ it! (And props if you remember that Biggin’s was Al Bundy’s favorite magazine.)

But I digress. (And props if you remember that “but I digresss” was my favorite expression in this blog for years.)

It sounds pretty funny on the face of it. A group of strippers sued and won a settlement in a case where the strippers were strip-searched by the police.

Part of the reason they won was the law that said, as a protective measure,  “strip-searches must be conducted by a person of the same sex and that any observer shall be of the same gender as the arrested person.” This despite the fact that women strip almost exclusively for men. (There is also a possibility of a homosexuality bias. What if the strippers worked in a gay bar? Or the observer is gay? Having observers of the same sex seems to go against the purpose of the law in those cases.)

I did a bit of research and the particulars of the case don’t come into play here, only the circumstances of the strip searches. It was a mostly clear-cut case of civil rights. Strange as it may seem simply on the face of it, they were wronged by being forced to submit to a strip search. There is a joke somewhere in here about strippers not giving it away for me but I won’t make it. (Though you can feel free to leave it in the comment section. You may want to base the joke on the cops not giving the strippers any singles first.) It is actually straight-forward once you stop giggling.

The takeaways of this case?
One, that not every Imponderable is as Imponderable as it may seem.
And two, “Biggin’s Gentlemen’s Club.”

BWA-HA-HA!

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