Amusing Megan's Law byproduct

[deej]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/04/BAGV2B5O6P1.DTL

While fearful parents were searching the Megan's Law sex offender database for local molesters, police said Glen Westberg, a registered sex offender himself, was perusing the internet listing for a very different reason: a date.

In what is considered to the first case of its kind in California, Westberg, 35, of Cupertino was charged Thursday with one misdemeanor count of illegally accessing the database as a registered sex offender.

Authorities said Westberg used the newly released on-line database of registered sex offenders to find potential dates, sending explicit letters to a handful of offenders in hopes of wooing them for sex.

 

[jefnvk]

One thing that really bothers me is naming laws after victums. I dunno why. Just seems that if it is a common crime, why is that one person any more special than the rest, and if it doesn't happen at all, there is probably something else it is classified under, so why are we making a special case.

Sorry for the hijack.

 

[mbs357]

Yea, just doesn't make sense.

 

[DelayedReaction]

One would assume that sex offenders have a right to know if other sex offenders are in the area.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Way past desperate.

 

[geekWithA.45]

One thing that really bothers me is naming laws after victums. I dunno why.

Hmmm....

poaching = Eve's law
conspiracy to poach = Adam's law
murder = Abel's law
genocide = whathisname, who wiped out the Amalakites. (He was only following orders...)

 

[Ivy Mike]

funny that all of "god's" creations are guilty of these crimes.

Oops, sorry, wrong Forum.