In the category of “you couldn’t make this stuff up” is the story about a North Carolina police department that arrested a 17-year-old boy for having nude pictures of himself on his cell phone.
This is in a country in which 3/4 of the population will admit they don’t know what the 3 branches of government are. They certainly don’t know what a marginal tax rate is. And they will never know what common sense really is; they will think they have it, but they will be wrong. Sense is anything but common in America. And they will never, ever be able to independently assess the question of what is terrible about a teenager having nude pictures of himself on his smart phone. You just have to say “nude”, and “pictures”, and “teenager”, they will howl with outrage.
We live in a world in which we can be surrounded by morons who say, “but that’s what the law says” or “it may seem strange, but that’s what the law says”, or “we are complete morons so we only do what the law says”.
Are you telling me there would have been serious consequences for a sergeant or a detective who said, “I don’t care what the law says, no, we are not going to prosecute a teenager for taking pictures of himself”?
A young mother in Utah who took her shirt off in front of her family has been charged with lewdness. Her husband took his shirt off too, but he is not being prosecuted.
Of course not.
That would be stupid.
Do you have a mirror in your bathroom?