Wednesday, August 3, 2011

LOL - Wut?

From the Great State of Idaho.....

By Laura Zuckerman
Reuters –

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Police in Idaho Falls have told a man to stop wearing a bunny suit in public after people complained he has been frightening children.


Residents in the northwestern U.S. city of 54,000 people also reported William Falkingham, 34, occasionally wears a tutu with the bunny suit, police said in a statement on Tuesday.


Police warned Falkingham after a woman said she saw him dressed in the costume, peeking at her young son from behind a tree and pointing his finger like a gun.


While a police report said other residents were "greatly disturbed" by his activities, one neighbour defended Falkingham as eccentric but otherwise harmless.


"He's got the bunny outfit, a cowboy suit and a ballerina dress but you don't see him except where he's tripping through his backyard," Deborah Colson told Reuters. "He's got a strange lifestyle at home but we all do weird things at home."

No, Deborah..... we don't. Behold the myth of equivalence. We can't think this guy is weird because "we all do weird things at home"?

Scratching yourself while you watch TV on the sofa or wearing a ratty pink bathrobe where no one can see you is not the same as prancing around the backyard in a ballerina dress.

5 comments:

The Forgotten Man said...

We can think he is weird but we can't tell him to stop being weird.

Xmichra said...

calm down, no one is judging your pink bathrobe ;)

Paladin said...

The Forgotten Man - I agree completely :) People should be free to be as weird as they want to be as long as it doesn't hurt someone or infringe on someone elses rights/liberty.

My problem was with the lady promoting the idea that we can't consider him weird.... 'Cuz he definitely is.

Also, my tolerance for weirdness comes to an abrupt halt when it overflows into my life. I always say that I am prepared and eager to not care what other people do - unless they make me care. Lurking around a park and scaring little kids in my presence would not end well for this dude.

Paladin said...

Xmichra - It allows me to scratch myself more freely :)

Tango said...

I say any man that wants to dress as a bunny with a tutu in his own yard should be able to. Besides, if we outlaw bunny costumes and tutus, only outlaws will have bunny costumes and tutus.