Offensive Behavior.

I am getting royally sick of this.  Since when was it a crime to be offensive?  Check out this story:

A man who wrote a vulgar message on the memo line of a check he used to pay a $5 parking ticket has apologized in writing, leading police to drop a disorderly conduct charge against him.

Clerks were offended by the message, and the disorderly conduct charge was filed because the comment was obscene, police Chief James Donnelly said.

"He was contrite enough to offer an apology, and I think that satisfies the people who were insulted by it," he said.

The lawyer for David Binner, 45, said his client would have prevailed if he went through a trial.

"The F-word isn't what it used to be," attorney Keith Williams said. It doesn't have a sexual connotation anymore and so can't be considered obscene, he said.

Williams said his client felt bad about what he did and will pay the parking fine and court costs.

"This is not my normal nature and admittedly was a temporary lapse of judgment on my part, vented in a moment of frustration," Binner wrote in his letter of apology.

So he used the 'F' word in the memo of a check, and the police filed a disorderly conduct charge?  I think he had a right to be pissed off about a parking ticket.  Even if it was his own negligence, why not?  I think the best evidence of how rediculous this is is that the charges were dropped when he apologized.  What crime do you know of that you can just apologize for and the cops drop the charges?  Only ones that won't stick and are rediculous.  I think from this he ought to now file charges against the city for libel. 

The next time you are offended by something... LET IT GO!!!  Why do we allow this?  The next thing that should have come about from this case following the standard American pleas is that Binner was raised by alcoholic parents and his use of vulgarities results from that upbringing.

Whatever happened to someone just being an asshole (whether it be temporary or a permanent condition), and everyone else just dealing with it by treating them without much favor in return?

Comments

[Ann]

You sir, are a complete, wonderful, amazing person.

[Micah Rousey]

Hmmmm... I don't know whether to say thank you or remove the comment.

Who do I know in Colorado? (Considering the same person left another mean under the name "~s~", I don't think the name 'Ann' is any clue.)

People should relize, this isn't some message board. This is MY site. See what I can do?

[mab]

oh damn for anger getting the best of a person. yay for the happy type comments.

[SexxyRexxy]

amen, my brother!!! you are preaching to the choir!!!