Florida judge rules that 5 sex offenders can live under a bridge

[alnorth]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264774,00.html

Due to a recent law that requires sex offenders to live more than 2,500 feet from any school or day care center, 5 sex offenders have been authorised to live under a bridge to avoid jail.

[MIAdragon]

I got a place for them, just dunno if I can dig a deep enough hole......

[Coach]

How about a firing squad? That'd make one hell of a good place they can live.....

[Bearcat]

five convicts have been forced to call the low space under the Julia Tuttle Causeway home...

He said he and the other men fear for their lives, especially because of "crazy people who might try to come harm sex offenders."

Here's to crazy people reading Fox News...

[MIAdragon]

the really sad part is every Sat Sun there are hundreds of kids running around there. Its a bug BBQ spot here. talk about give crack to an addict.

[alnorth]

These sex offender laws are really starting to get idiotic. We lump rapists in with the romeo and juliet kids where the guy is maybe just a year or two too old, no maliciousness or lack of consent involved. Apparently they are all the same, and they should not live anywhere or work anywhere.

The problem with these laws are if they become too draconian, then the sex offenders will disappear and avoid compliance, which theoretically would probably make the community more dangerous. (If these people are so dangerous, why did we let them out of jail?) Having less restriction but having law enforcement pretty much know where almost all of them live and work has got to be better than heavy restrictions that encourage them to disappear to the point where law enforcement has no clue where half of them are.

[mikey23545]

<b>The five committed such crimes as sexual battery, molestation, abuse and grand theft. Many of the offenses were against children.</b>

Poor Romeos.

[Nelson Muntz]

<b>The five committed such crimes as sexual battery, molestation, abuse and grand theft. Many of the offenses were against children.</b>

Poor Romeos.

Thats not the point he was trying to make. The point is raping a woman, and getting charged with indecent exposure for mooning a friend will cause you to have to register as a sex offender for the rest of your life. Is that right that both of those examples have to follow the same kind of restrictions for the rest of their life?

[mikey23545]

Believe me, most of you show your asses on internet bulletin boards enough that you shouldn't have to drop your pants in public too.

[alnorth]

Thats not the point he was trying to make. The point is raping a woman, and getting charged with indecent exposure for mooning a friend will cause you to have to register as a sex offender for the rest of your life. Is that right that both of those examples have to follow the same kind of restrictions for the rest of their life?

What he said. We treat a young guy who had a girlfriend a few months too young exactly the same as we would treat someone who served 20 years for assault and rape. Thats just freaking stupid.

Even for the violent offenders who we should probably feel less sorry for, they still need to live somewhere and be able to find a job. If you make that impossible, they will simply learn a lesson from the illegal aliens and just disappear, living and working wherever they wont get caught. If they are really too dangerous to be allowed to live and work in any town or city, they should stay in jail.