Assistant Pastor arrested and man charged with nudity at nude beach.

[Ian David]

Black Collar Crime
Date: 07/25/2007

The California Mid-State Fair kicked off its summer action with a cattle drive on July 25, and as I thought about tons of beef lumbering around on clopping hooves, I couldn't think of a more apt metaphor for what's been going on around me around all of us these days.

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When the SLO County Sheriff's Department conducted an apparent sex sting at the local nude beach the other day, all of the news focused on the fact that one of the poor schmoes caught in the alleged act was an assistant priest for a Catholic church in the county. There was a hue. A cry. Maybe both, but I'm not sure.

Maybe the idea is that this particular bit of info is news because his employer has a policy against such ahem behavior? But if that's the real reason, why didn't we see the names printed of the other men arrested? Where do they work? Pretty much every workplace I know of frowns on its employees getting handcuffed or carted away or locked up by the law. The church isn't exactly exclusive in that regard. Maybe the other guys' workplace manuals also have some sort of policy? I don't know, because nobody else was named in the reports I saw.

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Anyway, there were no allegations of any minors involved no altar boys or young parishioners or anything. Instead, if you're going to try to fill in the blanks of this particular story line, it tells more of a tale of a fellow fallible human left unable to express his sexuality in the open and forced to resort to a more or less desperate outlet the brambly bushes in this case for companionship. I have to say, though, that the great outdoors wouldn't be my first choice for an amorous rendezvous and I'm sure the neighbors of Pirate's Cove will thank me for that.

There's another strange thing about these media reports as well: One of the men was charged with nothing more than indecent exposure. At Pirate's Cove. The nude beach.

More:
http://www.newtimesslo.com/index.php?p=showarticle&id=2634


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Assistant Pastor at Saint Joseph's Catholic Church Arrested for Lewd Acts in Public
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[hobbit709]

1. Indecent exposure at a nude beach??

Please put me on that jury!

[Ian David]

3. In Texas they've been arresting people for public drunkenness... in BARS!

And not just any bars... HOTEL BARS... where people from out of state were staying.

Bar Sweep Sparks Controversy
Comedian Weighs In On Public Intoxication Arrests

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission sent a message to bar patrons last week.

TABC agents and Irving police swept through 36 Irving bars and arrested about 30 people on charges of public intoxication. Agency representatives say the move came as a proactive measure to curtail drunken driving.

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At one location, for example, agents and police arrested patrons of a hotel bar. Some of the suspects said they were registered at the hotel and had no intention of driving. Arresting authorities said the patrons were a danger to themselves and others.

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TABC officials said the sweep concerned saving lives, not individual rights. Harvey and others interviewed by NBC 5 said they believe drunken driving to be unacceptable, although Harvey wanted to confirm that the United States remains a free country.

More:
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/8169246/detail.html

[hobbit709]

5. I know someone here in Austin

who was stopped 3 doors from his house and charged with public intoxication because he had realized he was too drunk to drive and decided to walk home. when the judge heard the circumstances he lectured to officer and dismissed the charge, but my friend still had to spend a night in jail.

[tammywammy]

10. That was back in March

They stopped those stings in bars.

[Ian David]

13. Oh, good! What made them finally decide to stop? n/t

[tammywammy]

16. Public outrage

It stopped within weeks of it coming out in the news.

Plus pressure from cities, like Dallas. People that were planning on conventions in Dallas threatened to cancel. No one was supporting the TABC's actions. If they're drunk, watch them get in their car, and start it and arrest. Don't arrest people who are at the hotel they're staying at for being in their bar.

Plus, you could be arrest for just having one drink. There weren't any standards to it. There was a lot of public outrage over this.

[lynnertic]

2. Ahem, nude beaches are only about sexuality to the people who still have their clothes on,

the pervs.

[Tesha]

6. Go read (one of) the articles before you embarrass yourself further.

He wasn't arrested for being nude on the nude beach.

Tesha

[lynnertic]

12. Seems so.

in my defense the 1st link went to an article that only said 'apparent sex sting'

[Ian David]

8. The pastor wasn't just naked. n/t

[shain from kane]

4. Tan lines around the collar.

[TahitiNut]

7. Believe me, the Pacific is so cold that one nude swim leaves very little to 'expose.'

:evilgrin:

[xchrom]

9. now this one i have a problem with.

fucking children is one thing -- and jail time is appropriate.

but consenting adults -- and at a nude beach is another.

why release the details of the assistant priest?

murder is skyrocketing in certain communities and the police are spending money, and ''man power'' at an operation like this?

i'm sorry but that's just wrong.

[JHB]

14. "and at a nude beach"?

What makes you think public lewdness would be any more acceptable at a nude beach than anywhere else?

[xchrom]

15. as some one who has frequented nude beaches -- over a considerable length of time --

live and let live has generally been the rule.

but you know my point really is -- that as crimes go this is fairly low on the totem poll -- we are having crisis level violence in places like l.a. -- and law enforcement is trolling nude beaches for naughtyness.

[JHB]

17. Sorry, misread you.

I'm sure you've run into people who have completely missed the boat on what motivates people to go to a CO beach.

[Parche]

11. Pastor

Maybe he had a LITTLE steeple?????????? :rofl: