Thursday, November 15, 2007

What is this world coming to?

This post is potentially PG. So be warned, and ask your parents to read first.

Mr Stewart was caught in the act with his bicycle by cleaners in his bedroom at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr. Gail Davidson, prosecuting, told Ayr Sheriff Court: "They knocked on the door several times and there was no reply. "They used a master key to unlock the door and they then observed the accused wearing only a white t-shirt, naked from the waist down.

"The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex." Both cleaners, who were "extremely shocked", told the hostel manager who called police. Sheriff Colin Miller told Stewart: "In almost four decades in the law I thought I had come across every perversion known to mankind, but this is a new one on me. I have never heard of a 'cycle-sexualist'. {FN1} "


I must be crazy/amoral/indecent, but I think this is absolutely ludicrous. Not the fact that Mr Stewart was humping a bike (although I admit that is quite funny), but also because he has been placed under probation for 3 years as a sex offender. Perhaps some might disagree. Some might indeed argue that allowing man to have sex with bikes will be promoting the sex-with-bike lifestyle or that it is morally deprave ("God did make us to have sex with bike?"). Perhaps the straw up nose analogy was not that misplaced after all.

But honestly, is a person really a criminal simply because he choose to have sex with an object in the privacy of his room? What about sex dolls, vibrators, objects, ad infinitum. Clearly, Mr Stewart has a particular fetish that is not widely shared. But who is the victim here? Is there harm? There is no chance of STDS.


FN1: BBC News Link

Because this is so funny

How it could have been criminal?


1. He was not wearing a helmet.
2. He was cycling on the pavement.
3. He forget to signal his intentions.
4. The bike is damn cranky (breach of the peace). ("Remember to lubricate often")


Other choice comments

The advantage of having sex with bikes is that once you do it, you will never forget how.

This shows you why a bike is better than a woman.

2 comments:

The Key Question said...

LMFAO!!! Yes, it reminds me that it's a Friday today.

It also reminds me that I don't know how the law really works.

Teh Si said...

lol. thankgoditsfriday.

now let me rant....the more i think about what the law is, the more i veer towards the conclusion that it is meant to affirm what is "normal" by denying that which is considered abnormal... the law is also deeply impersonal. only i think a person who has to deal with the law will appreciate that. one is longer Leng Hiong - one is the passenger, driver, boss, secretary, worker and "should have" done this or that... such normative assumptions largely come from the quasi--economic-liberal unholy alliance with authoritarian-communitarianism political reasoning we have today..

law forces participants into this normative political reasoning which is depending on where you come from, a large fantasy...

its the best way to think about it... and the most appropriate to think about how ridiculous some of these laws are... people are just trying to rationalize their fantastic account of the world, and setting rules to normalize it... they then teach these rules (with their assumptions and reasoning) in their institutions...

Hehe .. rant finish.. out.