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Haley Joel Osment saw dead people; the Herald sees perverts
By adamg on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 1:59pm
Adam Reilly notes the glee with which the Herald's Laurel Sweet covers the issue of pervs driving ice-cream trucks even though Sweet is forced to acknowledge that the problem is "incredibly, a rarity nationwide."
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Stop right there
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Ding-a-Ling
http://www.asklyrics.com/display/Chuck_Berry/My_Di...
Oh, that's just too awesome
But really, how can this be constitutional? Banning sex offenders from jobs where one is alone with children, sure, I can see that. One is clearly missing a necessary job qualification. But banning sex offenders from a job where one interacts with children from inside a truck, and it's out on an urban street with tons of people around and parents shouldn't be sending their children out there unattended in the first place? That sounds discriminatory to me. By that logic, we should ban sex offenders from damn near everything, despite highly trained professionals having assessed the person as being appropriate to be released into a regular community.
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
One way this latest imaginary boogeyman could be good
It could be good if it reminds negligent parents to supervise and teach their kids.
That would cure a lot of real social ills.
"State Sen. Michael R.
"State Sen. Michael R. Knapik is proposing to outlaw convicted sex offenders from manning ice cream trucks - incredibly, a rarity nationwide."
The Herald's sentence is indeed unclear, but I read it to say that laws prohibiting convicted sex offenders from manning ice cream trucks are, incredibly, a rarity nationwide.
remember trees lounge?
it's the citizen kane of alcoholic ice cream truck driver movies. absolutely a classic.
as for the pervert-ice cream truck drivers, screening them out will be expensive, maybe useless. but the new york story is so horrible,
new legislation anywhere will be an easy sell.
I think I've got a brainfreeze...no, wait, it's a..
a stupid-proposed-bill freeze.
The Senator has a good idea, but...his plan is a bit much. Although the New York incident is unfortunate, the problem is, as the article says, a rarity. Would someone explain how the Ding-a-Ling dude managed to do that? Because, see, every one loves ice cream, so there's likely to multiple kids there who rush off to tell an adult-heck, there could've been grownups there too!
And, as previously mentioned, the driver is in a truck. An enclosed truck.