Bike Sex Man

[Smokey]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7095134.stm?lsm

Summary.

Man caught having sex with bicycle in hotel room is placed on sex offenders register.

Is this really a serious offence? Obviously the guy is a bit strange but was he really harming anyone? To me this is a massive over-reaction.

Still the whole story is highly amusing especially this quote.

Stewart had denied the offence, claiming it was caused by a misunderstanding after he had too much to drink.

Sounds like he forced himself on the bicycle after it fell asleep.

[Darkscull]

he wasn't even having sex with the bicycle (dunno how that would be possible), but simulating sex with the bycycle, in a room that he had the ability to lock...

so essentially, someone masturbating, in private, has been put on the sex offenders register because some people walked in on him (after unlocking the door) and it was an unusual way to do it

[tehmoogles]

I think you're right. Apart from the fact that it was a bit weird, it was in the privacy of his own room, behind a locked door. It's not as though the bike has feelings.

Maybe the bike wasn't over the age of consent?

[Darkscull]

the only leg the prosecution has to stand on was that it was a hostel rather than a room he had payed for in some way (but if it was a single room that he could lock, then i don't see how it's less than private), and that he didn't stop once the people walked in.

however if they'd not walked in, nothing could be said to be wrong, and if they'd left hurriedly like any normal person would, then there would be no way of saying that he purposefully did it in front of them.

this whole thing is a blatant violation of privacy, and the only reason he was found guilty was that the counsel advised him to plead guilty.

it's just a farce, but one with scary implications

[sircheese]

now doesn't this show you that our legal system works

a serial rapist can get one months community service yet a (odd) man who has a sexual fetish with eco friendly ways of getting around gets three years probation.

wheres the white rabbit shouting I'm late I'm late I'm late?

[MasterMoogle]

Did the bike consent?

And even if he had been sober at the time, is it not obstructing his rights to sexual freedom?

[bionic sheep]

a serial rapist can get one months community service yet a (odd) man who has a sexual fetish with eco friendly ways of getting around gets three years probation.

I'm going to go ahead and take issue with this sentence, simply because the idea of a serial rapist getting one month's community service is absurd unless you can provide me with some proof of this actually happening.

However, I still think it's stupid that the poor bloke is on the sex offender's register now. Unless there's some previous misdemeanours we don't know about - or something else happened in that hotel room which we haven't heard about - then it seems pretty draconian to punish him so harshly for such a minor crime.

[feeshy]

Well, he was charged with breaching the peace, which is a bit silly. According to Wiki, 'Disturbing the peace is a crime generally defined as the unsettling of proper order in a public space through one's actions.'. Well, it wasn't *really* a public space, and it wasn't *really* unsettling proper order. And certainly being put on the Sex Offenders Register was OTT. What if they had walked in on a couple having sex? Or an S&M event? Or something else?

[Smokey]

Maybe the bike wasn't over the age of consent?

Still had the stabilisers on?

Apparently there have been similar cases, one of which involved a man having sex with a shoe in a high street. He was fined £100! Plus he has a similar conviction for "simulating" sex with a traffic cone in public. How is that fair?

[Smartie]

Still had the stabilisers on?

Apparently there have been similar cases, one of which involved a man having sex with a shoe in a high street. He was fined £100! Plus he has a similar conviction for "simulating" sex with a traffic cone in public. How is that fair?

The law is an ass.
The guy doing it in public deserved it as it's in public.
The guy in his room - I'd be suprised if this wasn't challenged and overturned very shortly.

[AngryPaul]

People should be allowed to do what they want to inanimate objects in the privacy of a building as long as its not someone elses inanimate object that they will later want to use.

Does someone caught masturbating in a hostel deserve the same punishment as they were 'simulating' sex with a hand?

[doctor_fruitbat]

I don't much care for the sex offender's register as it is. Demonising people such as this man by putting them on the same list as paedophiliac multiple rapists is not a nice thing to do, given the reputation of the register; surely having a cirminal record stating your crime is enough? An honest question here: what does the sex offenders register do that the law doesn't already do (or could do with a little minor tweaking)?

[Schlubalybub]

Yeah, I read about this on BBCi, and heard Russel Brand talking about it on Radio2 on Saturday night. I don't think he should be on the sex offender's register. I mean, as doctor_fruitbat says, it's putting him on a par with rapists and paedophiles. He only simulated sex with a bike. I've seen worse in Colwyn Bay on a friday night...

[MLynas]

This just shows the hyper sensitive society we live in. The sex offenders register is a bit mental, that man will be on the same list as paedophiles etc it's a major stigma.

It's this society we live in where we think every child is being molested and every women raped.

I spent 13 years in catholic education, numerous hours with priests, joined the boy scouts went on many over night and weekend camps and even went away for 2 weeks without any parents. I'm not aware of anyone who has ever been molested, but if you believed the media I should have been touched since I was five.

It's this prudish British attitude to sex combined with a huge lack of trust in other people that blow "misunderstandings" like this way out of proportion.

Would they have put Jim from "American Pie" on the sex offenders register?

[maldirth]

Has the bike been offered rape counselling?

[Darkscull]

Has the bike been offered rape counselling?

nah, they'd manage to persuade it that it was asking for it all along

[Redux]

A bike cannot say no.

Bike Sex Man. Sounds like the name of wonderful superhero.

I would want him to rescue me. Just as long as he doesn't rescue my bike.