Den 20. okt. 2005 kl. 17.48 skrev E.R.N. Reed:
graywolf wrote:
"Dangerous perverts wandering around your district..."?
Guys, think back to the last pizza guy who delivered to your
house. Was he by any chance a pimply faced teenager himself? So he
went to the football game and took some photos of girls...
Dangerous pervert that he was... Good thing the cops were on the
job...
Mrs Reed, I suggest you lock the doors and crawl under the bed,
maybe you will be safe there. However watch out for the dust
bunnies they are dangerous indeed. And by the way, the guy is not
a dangerous pervert until 12 members of a jury and a judge say he
is. Until that time you are guilty of libel, and he can and should
sue the shit out of you.
I am quite aware that the particular individual isn't guilty of
anything until the jury says so, and if you read my comments you'll
note I carefully said IF he is, then ...
And IF all he did was take some harmless pictures of girls at a
football game, he shouldn't be "harassed" (obviously) just like
Shel shouldn't.
All I've been trying to say is, MAYBE it got as far as it did
because his pictures and his story were not as innocent as you guys
would prefer to assume.
Odds are that any pizza delivery guy isn't dangerous, or a pervert,
or a dangerous pervert. A small chance exists that he is. (And IF
he is ... insert my "dangerous pervert" remarks here. They don't
apply to the vast majority of harmless, law-abiding citizens, even
the ones who deliver pizza and attend football games.)
Odds are any guy pulled over for a missing licence plate isn't a
mass murderer. But at least one was.
Odds are any quiet fellow who keeps his apartment so messy it
smells bad, isn't a serial killer and cannibal. But at least one was.
Odds are any strangely-dressed characters walking down the street
don't have a kidnapped teen girl in their group. But at least one did.
Are you going to disbelieve that these situations actually
occurred, just because they're rare?
Odds are much larger that you get killed in a car accident one day,
but we still drive cars and cross the streets.
I´ve got three small boys and I worry a lot about them, but I prefer
to worry about those things that have the highest probability and not
by the things that the tabloids are concentrating on.
I also like the fact that I can take a walk with a camera without
being harassed by people who see ghosts in broad daylight. I think
that is an important freedom.
DagT
