[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
I agree that this is pretty fucked up, but nowhere in that article does it say that the woman was walking through his property…[/quote]
Reread the op’s CAPITALIZED portion. Also listen more carefully to the video link. It clearly states that the woman cut through his property.
This is scary. I have gone into my kitchen naked plenty of times in the early morning.
If I was the guy I would be looking to bring her up on charges. There has to be some law being broken if you are on someone’s property looking in their window which she is admitting to.
[quote]orion wrote:
Standard Donkey wrote:
if she calls the cops, and signs the complaint, the police have to arrest him…right?
I think they have their hands tied behind their back in that scenario.
I am just imagining going to an Austrian cop and complaining that I saw a naked man in his own home while trespassing on his property.
That might leads to some interesting reactions, to say the least.
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The woman broke no law by being on his property without a warning.
However, the police could not have entered the man’s home without his consent. The observation by a second party of a crime being committed inside the home of a third party does not constitute reasonable suspicion because the third party has an expectation of privacy inside his home.
It’s similar to that man being arrested for disturbing the peace on his own property after the police had gained entry into his house based on a phone conversation.
[quote]greggio wrote:
This is scary. I have gone into my kitchen naked plenty of times in the early morning.
If I was the guy I would be looking to bring her up on charges. There has to be some law being broken if you are on someone’s property looking in their window which she is admitting to.[/quote]
There is an expectation of privacy within your own home, but this applies to the act of a crime being committed. Looking through someone’s open window is not illegal in Virginia.
The woman didn’t break any Virginia law. She would have had to be warned verbally or by a sign in order to be trespassing.
How retarded. The only thing wrong in that article is the woman taking a 7 year old child for a “walk” at 5:30 am whilst looking in other peoples’ windows, that’s just a bit suspicious to me.
[quote]limitatinfinity wrote:
orion wrote:
Standard Donkey wrote:
if she calls the cops, and signs the complaint, the police have to arrest him…right?
I think they have their hands tied behind their back in that scenario.
I am just imagining going to an Austrian cop and complaining that I saw a naked man in his own home while trespassing on his property.
That might leads to some interesting reactions, to say the least.
The woman broke no law by being on his property without a warning.
However, the police could not have entered the man’s home without his consent. The observation by a second party of a crime being committed inside the home of a third party does not constitute reasonable suspicion because the third party has an expectation of privacy inside his home.
It’s similar to that man being arrested for disturbing the peace on his own property after the police had gained entry into his house based on a phone conversation.
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Mebbe, but that is not what I am talking about.
There is something seriously wrong if someone like that is not laughed out off the police station.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I find it very offensive as well. Speaking as someone who walks naked around the house, I think we ought to be able to have some expectation of privacy within our own homes. How dare someone look into someone elses windows and then complain about what they see.
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Purely in the interests of investigating legal hypocrisy, I volunteer to stand in your back yard, observe you being naked in your own home (for as long as it takes) and then try and get you arrested for it
[quote]Mattlebee wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
I find it very offensive as well. Speaking as someone who walks naked around the house, I think we ought to be able to have some expectation of privacy within our own homes. How dare someone look into someone elses windows and then complain about what they see.
Purely in the interests of investigating legal hypocrisy, I volunteer to stand in your back yard, observe you being naked in your own home (for as long as it takes) and then try and get you arrested for it :-)[/quote]
I’m willing to oversee this experiment as an objective 3rd party.