Amish Sexter Sought Buggy Sex With Girl, 12

[xssve]

Another victim of liberal permissiveness or culture clash?

JUNE 21--An Amish man who sent hundreds of sexually charged text messages to a 12-year-old girl was arrested last week when he drove a horse and buggy to an Indiana restaurant where he had arranged a rendezvous with the child, according to police.

 

[3113]

What was he using to text-message? Smoke signals?

 

[TE999]

And he knew she was 12 yo? What a perv!

Q. What goes "Clopclopclop--bangbangbang--clopclopclopclop?"

A. An Amish drive-by shooting.

 

[kromen]

I knew Roy Munson was up to no good.

 

[Stella_Omega]

What was he using to text-message? Smoke signals?

he used a treadle-powered cellphone?

 

[mynameisben]

What was he using to text-message? Smoke signals?

The dude must have been a member of some renegade splinter group of the Amish. I hope the 12-year-old girl learned an important lesson about the value of safe sects.

 

[lovecraft68]

It wasn't this guy was it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg

 

[Darkniciad]

he used a treadle-powered cellphone?

The way the amish ( at least midwest amish ) decide what's okay and what's from the evil English is convoluted, at best, and the younger generation always has a looser interpretation. They're allowed to get away with it as part of sowing their wild oats before coming back to the fold.

Cellphones don't have a direct connection to the outside world. There aren't any wires coming from the English, so they're in a gray area.

The same people who load them up to come shopping for Mtn. Dew and Little Debbie cakes take care of charging the phones for them.

We had at least a couple of buggies with stereos running off batteries charged by the wheels of the buggies turning. Not surprisingly, the speakers were frequently blaring the Electric Amish

And if you ever saw a buggy ahead after midnight, you gave it a WIDE berth. 90% of the time, the guys in the buggy were passed out drunk, and the horse was the only one driving them home.

Keep in mind that the customs they keep are more in line with days long gone, when young women were of marriagable age at puberty. There's some discouragement of that nowadays for the sake of avoiding confrontations with the English, but it's hardly seen as taboo. For many of them, a twelve year old is of courting age, and for a young man sowing his wild oats -- other things.

Still creepy, but there's a whole different mindset operating in those communities that you can't really get your mind around unless you experience it.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Looks like another case for the First Amendment . . . If the girl was Amish, too, the local gendarmery might be in for a bit of a problem come trial time, especially if it got to appeals.

 

[3113]

he used a treadle-powered cellphone?

Works for me. And he likely made the cellphone himself. Something like this:

http://lunaguitars.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/steampunk-cellphone1_s4y4j_54.jpg?w=500&h=375

Just attach it to the treadle, power it up, and you're ready to text inappropriate propositions to supposed 12-year-olds! The convenience of the modern world while still retaining old world charm and simplicity.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Gotta love that Steampunk.

 

[3113]

Gotta love that Steampunk.

Had to use steampunk. There's no Amishpunk yet...though I suspect now that I've said it, that Stella will be working on it.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Hmmm . . . Everything either clockwork, animal, water or wind powered? It could work--but you'd have to do something about the clothes. The Amish simply don't go for cleavage.

 

[3113]

Hmmm . . . Everything either clockwork, animal, water or wind powered? It could work--but you'd have to do something about the clothes. The Amish simply don't go for cleavage.

Cleavage with a bonnet?

 

[sr71plt]

Cleavage with a bonnet?

Scarlett O'Hara could make it work.

She'd even pretend to be Amish if it saved Tara.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Had to use steampunk. There's no Amishpunk yet...though I suspect now that I've said it, that Stella will be working on it.

There are places even I won't go.

 

[squarejohn]

What was he using to text-message? Smoke signals?

You win first place for making such a deliciously pithy comment.

 

[Pure]

thoughts

Amish Sexter Sought Buggy Sex With Girl, 12

while the electronic angle is intriguing--the guy was Amish yet had a cellphone or iphone--the bias of the headline is also apparent.

would one ever see

Armenian orthodox man sought underage sex on the 'net.

Atheist sought underage sex on the 'net?

I suppose, however, one might see

Anglican bishop sought underage sex on the 'net

since the person would normally present himself as exemplary.

 

[sr71plt]

Amish Sexter Sought Buggy Sex With Girl, 12

while the electronic angle is intriguing--the guy was Amish yet had a cellphone or iphone., the bias of the headline is also apparent.

would one ever see

Armenian orthodox man sought underage sex on the 'net.

Atheist sought underage sex on the 'net?

I suppose, however, one might see

Anglican bishop sought underage sex on the 'net

since the person would normally present himself as exemplary.

It's not a bias. It's an attention getter. That's what headlines are supposed to do. This is what headline writers go for. In this case, someone Amish using the Net is the first "what the?" with the underage sex angle being a bonus attention grabber backup.

 

[3113]

would one ever see
Armenian orthodox man sought underage sex on the 'net.
Atheist sought underage sex on the 'net?

Apples and oranges. Both of these people would have cellphones--so what's different about them sexting anyone? Any radically anti-tech group known for eschewing modernity and living apart without it, whether for religious reasons or because they were trying to get back to nature, would be named in such a headline, because part of their whole deal is to NOT use technology to do such a thing.

It's not bias if the reason the person's group was named is because it's anti-technology to the point of riding around in horse-and-buggy, yet the person committed the crime with a cellphone. I rather imagine an orthodox rabbi might get headlines if he been sexting on Saturdays, as there are whole neighborhoods of orthodox Jews that refuse to even flick on a light switch on Saturday.

 

[Pure]

yes, and...

3113Any radically anti-tech group known for eschewing modernity and living apart without it, whether for religious reasons or because they were trying to get back to nature, would be named in such a headline,

yes, i agree the technology issue is one thing underlying the headline and story. just as for a story based on a reporter's find: "desert anchorite has a color tv he watches a lot."

and there is something more going on, as well.

 

[xssve]

It's not a bias. It's an attention getter. That's what headlines are supposed to do. This is what headline writers go for. In this case, someone Amish using the Net is the first "what the?" with the underage sex angle being a bonus attention grabber backup.

The buggy just adds an amusement factor, if she had been 18, it might have made the human interest section, but it would not be news.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Sex in the back of a buggy on a warm summer's night does have a certain appeal . . .

 

[sr71plt]

The buggy just adds an amusement factor, if she had been 18, it might have made the human interest section, but it would not be news.

The news is that it involves the Amish--and, specifically, the Amish using modern technology.

 

[Pure]

that some Amish use bits of modern technology is very well known. that "story" per se would be rather boring.