The Law is a Fool

Well, it appears that police arrested 12 people, and cited them for indecent exposure, at the annual naked pumpkin run, in which the participants, "wearing nothing but pumpkins on their heads", run through a mall.

While I think that stupidity should be a punishable offense, it now appears that if convicted, the defendants will be required to register as sex offenders.

This is nuts, and the police are nuts for charging them as such, particularly since they could have cited them for public indecency, which does not require registration.

While they are at it, perhaps they should fix the law in Colorado, because streaking is a class I misdemeanor, and public indecency is a class I petty offense, which does not require registration, so having sex in public is better in the eyes of the law than simply being naked.