Not to downplay the seriousness of people exposing and gratifying themselves in public, but police at Ohio State University appear to have a very low threshold for “public indecency.”
A 62-year-old man was advised to leave the Welcome Week concert for public indecency Friday.
Two plainclothes officers saw that the man had his hand inside of his pocket and appeared to be moving it while he was watching girls dance nearby, according to a University Police report. When the man saw a uniformed officer nearby, he untucked his shirt and kept his hand in his pocket.
When the officers approached the man and asked for his ID, they realized he had come in contact with police in 2013 when he made female students feel uncomfortable in the Ohio Union. The man tried to speak in sign language but the officers were unable to communicate with him, so they asked him to leave the area.
So an elderly deaf man who somehow made women “uncomfortable” in the past and “appears to be moving” his hand in his pocket is a threat. At least officers didn’t arrest him.
To read the rest of The Lantern’s blotter, click here.
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