Also known as - Virginia is for Loonies.

Naked Coffee Drinker Arrested in a World Gone Mad

A man from Springfield, Virginia (Eric Williamson, 29) was making some coffee in his kitchen whilst naked, and faces a possible chage of indecent exposure and a year in prison.

It was 5:30am and he had the house to himself. he decided to go into the kitchen to make a coffee. Like many other millions on the planet, he felt there was nothing wrong in being naked in his own house, especially at that time of the day.

Mr. WIlliamson claims he did not purposely intend to expose himself to anyone outside of the house, but at that moment a woman and her seven-year-old son happened to pass by his kitchen window.

After seeing Mr. Williamson's naked body, she called the police.

What many reports fail to mention, is that the woman was in a hurry and cut across Mr. Williamson's garden to save time.  Apart from the fact that she was tresspassing, why on earth was she out so early with her son?

Had she not taken the "short-cut" she probably would not have seen Mr. Williamson, and if she was in such a hurry, what was she doing looking in any windows at all?

from here.
and here.

And updated  here.

The woman who called the police says the time of the incident was 8:40 am, not 5:30 am as Williamson says. She also says Williamson was first standing in an open doorway, then moved in front of a window, still in her view. Given that she was apparently on his property (that part of the story hasn't yet been disputed), and he was in his home the entire time, I'm not sure his exact position in his own home matters, unless he was otherwise in plain view of someone using the public sidewalk. Even then, it seems more like tacky behavior than behavior that should be criminal. And you'd think the guy would get a warning before you arrest him for nudity in his own house.

Williamson told Fox News today that after the report, 5-6 police officers came into his home unannounced, entered his bedroom, and arrested him.

The guy does seem strange. A roommate says he was acting oddly, walking around all morning wearing nothing but a construction hat. But again, strange behavior needn't be a crime punishable by a year in jail (if the roommate had reported unwanted nudity, that might be a different matter).

What none of these reports have managed to make clear is whether she'd have seen anything if she hadn't been intruding on his privacy in the first place.
Regardless of the time, which may be a matter of 1) when he made coffee, 2) when she called, and 3) when the cops turned up, this just seems like exceedingly poor judgement on the part of the cops.
Though one of the stories says she's an officer's wife.
So maybe cop spouses get listened to, even if they are loopy.

I get a stong feeling that one does not want to be seen as "strange" in Virginia.

EDIT;

All of which brings me to a belated

Home Town Brag
.
That sleezeball in California with the kidnapped child he held for 18 years?
If you looked at the story at all, you may have read how one of his neighbor's girl friends had thought there was something wrong a few years earlier.
She had noticed kids on the property and thought it seemed "off."
And called the local cops out in the 'burbs.
The local cops came by and talked with him, and didn't think there was a problem

How the creep got busted was coming to the UC Berkeley campus.
Believe me, we are knee-deep in weirdos round here, and, as a result, the campus cops can tell weird from WEIRD.
Cos strange is relative.
Ally Jacobs and Lisa Campbell deal with craziness daily, so they could tell there was a problem.
Made me proud of the old Alma Mater.
.

Many, many years ago.
(Sigh)
I was walking home from the bus, through the twilight, on my favorite street.
Quiet, lots of old houses broken up into student flats, with wild gardens.
And cats.
Hosts of cats, all swarming about greeting people, waiting for their own folks.

Had a very, very friendly kitty come up to me.
And vamp me quite thoroughly.
Demanding pats, rubbing ankles.
The whole act.

Finally leads me up to door, and begins with the begging.
With loud purrs, and talkings, and all

It was clear that people were in there.
It was just getting dark, and lights were on.
And kitty wanted IN.
And I was there, and I was a person, and people are GOOD.

I knocked on the door for her.

For other Doctor Who fans, from here:

Defeated_by_a_Flight_of_Stairs_by_Miss_Bob

Perhaps you've noticed me turning up two and three times a day for a while?
(That is, if you are one of those Statcounter people who keep track of such things.)

It's just that when I try to get into vox by going to the opening page, my computer won't open it.
Sigh.
So I leave emails from vox telling me about comments and such sitting in my yahoo mailbox, and then I follow the link from the email onto vox.
I try to change off the emails every so often, but even so I probably bop in and out of just a few people's blogs a lot.

It just occurred to me that maybe this looked odd.

So, no, I'm not weirdly cyber-haunting anyone, I'm just trying to sneak in here via the back door.

Also from the AP.
In addition to just the sheer barf-worthy nature of it all, there's a little surprise.
You have to wait for the fourth paragraph here.

 Hong Kong apartment sells for whopping $57 million

HONG KONG — It's a price tag that would make even New Yorkers and Londoners gasp — an outsized luxury apartment sold for nearly $57 million in Hong Kong Wednesday amid growing fears of a real estate bubble.

The five-bedroom duplex suite with as much as 6,158 square feet was sold to an unidentified buyer from mainland China, said the developer, Henderson Land Development, a major Hong Kong property company. It is believed to be Asia's most expensive property by square foot at nearly $9,200.

Aside from an aroma spa center, fitness room, outdoor yoga gym and grand harbor views, the new homeowner will enjoy an exclusive address in the hills of Hong Kong's main island — "a majestic realm for the city who's who," according to a statement from the developer.

The deal comes at a time when ever-higher prices of Hong Kong real estate, benefiting from mainland China's booming market and easy money sloshing through the world financial system, are inspiring worries of a bubble in the making. Several blockbuster deals in the tens of millions of dollars have made headlines of late.

Did you catch it?

The part about "easy money sloshing through the world financial system"?

WTF?

First (from the AP) there is this little ride in a time machine:

NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.

Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.

"There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," Bardwell said. "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it."

If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.

"I try to treat everyone equally," he said.

Ack.

Ack.

Ack.