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asked in Politics & GovernmentLaw & Ethics · 1 decade ago

Man put on sex offenders register for having sex with a bicycle?

See the BBC news report:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_we...

But if the guy was in his room with his bicycle, and it was the cleaners who walked in on him, why was he put on the sex offenders register? Suppose the cleaners walk in on him having "normal" sex - would that result in him being put on the register as well?

Why was it seen as a sexually aggravated breach of the peace when he was in his own room? What was the problem - was it him trying to have sex in private?

...and legally, what's the difference between simulating sex with a sex toy and simulating sex with a bicycle that the guy was put on probation for it? (Not that I would do such a thing to the bike.. too much grease and sharp pointy bits on the sprockets..)

Update:

Mike Sanders: Yeah yeah.. so sue me for not logging on for a whole day - I was out riding my bike!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    this is the reason i don't go to Europe, that poor guy i can't see that he did anything wrong

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The report doesn't say whether the bike was a man's or woman's model. Was it straight or gay sex? Perhaps it was a "bi" cycle that swings both ways?

    Also, what age was the bike, if it was under age, they guy would be a pedal-ophile, so he certainly deserved to be on the sex offenders register. Perhaps it was a very old model, better described as "an old saddle bag"

    In any event, the guy was oviously a crank.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, that's not the entire story is it?

    He was living in a homeless hostel. The cleaners knocked at his door several times before letting themselves in, where they stumble upon him using his bike to have an elaborate w@nk.

    He'd set this up so that he'd deliberately be discovered by the cleaners. Indeed, it seems like he gets off on that type of behavior as he's got convictions for similar offenses in the past.

    So the "bike sex" part of the story is a red herring, and yes, as a serial flasher/sex pest he does need to go on the register.

  • 1 decade ago

    Bicycle has to answer this when called in witness box. Silly, If masturbation is not crime, how having sex with bicycle can be a crime. Since the boy found a new method of having sex, only a judge can decide whether it can be permitted and under what rules. U can do anything in privacy but not in public sight.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Its just WRONG. I imagine that the government will now have to pay for that bicycle to have intense counselling and it may never go on to form a proper relationship with another bicycle because of this. It may have problems being left alone in a cycle rack from now on. Lets face it - the bicycles life is over xxxxxx

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    how can he be put on the sex offenders list if he didn't

    1. do it in public

    2. wasn't against anything living

    i agree whats the difference between a sex toy and a bike

    weird but isn't what he does with his bike his own business as long as no one is being hurt

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    ROFLMAO!

    Having sex with a BICYCLE?!

    Wow thats one I've never heard before!!!

    Anyway, I think he had to be put on the Sex Offenders' Register - just look at all those poor defenceless bikes chained up outside shops and offices all over the country, at the mercy of this relentless sexual predator! Lol!

    Gives a whole new meaning to the phrases "Village Bike" and "Get on your Bike" eh?

  • flint
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    All I can think of is it can't be politically correct to have fun with a bicycle. Seems carzy to put him on the Sex Offenders Register.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    i can't see a problem with it all he done was love his bike not has if he was doing it out in the street.he should not have been put on the sex offenders list there are a lot more perverts out there who dont get put on it. would have been funny though if he got it stuck in a hole in the bike and had to call the emergency services. lol

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think what's being missed here was he was living in a hostel. Technically this man was homeless and living in temporary accomodation.

    Now I realise that hostel owners have to make sure they keep a clean house and no drugs or stuff goes on. But homeless people still have a right to privacy, no matter how odd they are.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Bad puns aside, the cleaner should have knocked. Weirdo register, yes. Sex offenders seems punitive.

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