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Saw this in the local Gazette newspaper.....thought you might enjoy....
This police call was blown out of proportion. Like, maybe, 36-24-36. Police weren’t sure what to expect when the call came in from a busy Briargate strip plaza about noon Friday. The complaint: “Kids in a car with inflatable nude blowup doll.” Seems the doll was being inappropriately handled by five Liberty High School boys.
Not like that.
“They were moving the doll from one vehicle to another,” said Sgt. Larry Herbert. That’s not a crime. Nor was there any violation on the part of the durable vinyl dame we’ll call “Blowup Betty.”
“It’s not indecent exposure because it’s not an actual person,” Herbert said.
The caper took place in front of Illusions salon at Briargate and Union boulevards, near a Louie’s Pizza where high school students go for lunch.
The sight of a naked doll in the hands of juveniles prompted the call to police.
“It was alarming the people in the beauty shop,” Herbert said. “By the sheer nature, it had no clothes on.”
Which is, after all, the essence of Betty.
The teens, whose names were taken by police, weren’t cited but offered a choice: Dispose of the doll — or we’re telling Dad.
“Pop! They threw it in the Dumpster,” Herbert said.
The school’s police resource officer was notified, he said, because the teens denied ownership, saying they took it from another student’s car that had been “decorated.”
Possession of a blowup doll isn’t a school offense unless it disrupts learning, said Academy School District 20 spokeswoman Nanette Anderson.
“It’s not like a weapon,” she said. “Having it in their car wasn’t illegal.”
School officials are investigating.
“It’s not anything the students are going to be disciplined for,” Anderson said. “They might be asked if that’s the way they want to represent their school.”
Despite Betty’s deflated status, the case isn’t closed.
“They said they took it from another vehicle,” Herbert said.
“If someone wants to come back and file a theft complaint about a stolen blowup doll, we might have a crime.”
This police call was blown out of proportion. Like, maybe, 36-24-36. Police weren’t sure what to expect when the call came in from a busy Briargate strip plaza about noon Friday. The complaint: “Kids in a car with inflatable nude blowup doll.” Seems the doll was being inappropriately handled by five Liberty High School boys.
Not like that.
“They were moving the doll from one vehicle to another,” said Sgt. Larry Herbert. That’s not a crime. Nor was there any violation on the part of the durable vinyl dame we’ll call “Blowup Betty.”
“It’s not indecent exposure because it’s not an actual person,” Herbert said.
The caper took place in front of Illusions salon at Briargate and Union boulevards, near a Louie’s Pizza where high school students go for lunch.
The sight of a naked doll in the hands of juveniles prompted the call to police.
“It was alarming the people in the beauty shop,” Herbert said. “By the sheer nature, it had no clothes on.”
Which is, after all, the essence of Betty.
The teens, whose names were taken by police, weren’t cited but offered a choice: Dispose of the doll — or we’re telling Dad.
“Pop! They threw it in the Dumpster,” Herbert said.
The school’s police resource officer was notified, he said, because the teens denied ownership, saying they took it from another student’s car that had been “decorated.”
Possession of a blowup doll isn’t a school offense unless it disrupts learning, said Academy School District 20 spokeswoman Nanette Anderson.
“It’s not like a weapon,” she said. “Having it in their car wasn’t illegal.”
School officials are investigating.
“It’s not anything the students are going to be disciplined for,” Anderson said. “They might be asked if that’s the way they want to represent their school.”
Despite Betty’s deflated status, the case isn’t closed.
“They said they took it from another vehicle,” Herbert said.
“If someone wants to come back and file a theft complaint about a stolen blowup doll, we might have a crime.”
