A [Howell, Michigan] man was ordered to stand trial on charges he exposed his genitals to a computer technician trying to fix his slow Internet service.
People, this is not Comcastic behavior. It's not even Comsensual. Just because you have slow Internet service it doesn't mean you should make your own fun, at least not the kind that involves exposing yourself to a technician.
]]>The technician testified that he went to Trikes' Pinckney Road home Oct. 17, after Trikes complained his Internet service was too slow.
While at the defendant's home, the technician said, Trikes began discussing pornographic Web sites that he had visited online as well as a sexually explicit video that he said he found in a gas station garbage can. The technician said he began talking about his date later that evening "to ease the uncomfortableness" of the situation.
However, the witness said, Trikes then exposed his genitals, which made the technician extremely uncomfortable.
A commenter on the Livingston Daily website notes, "I can see why the man got so excited - try getting any kind of service from the cable company these days. But there's a right way and a wrong way to show your excitement." We couldn't agree more.
"Howell man set to stand trial for indecent exposure" [Livingston Daily] (Thanks to Ryan!)
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Odd.
]]>That is all.
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"Dear Penthouse..."
]]>@mumixam: Check on that.
]]>@NotChoinski: Customers who mess with employees are more like assault or some real crime charge like this Comcast case. Go to restaurant and grab a waitress or get nasty in talking to her and you will find out pretty quick the same thing applies.( In some locations you can even be cited for cursing due to old laws on the books.)
Harrasment is directed to the employee to employee, employee to supervisor, or employee to vendor relationships.
]]>I've been threatened time and time again. The reality is that sometimes we will help someone, going against company policy. I assure you, the people that get that extra help, the ones that make you risk getting called out, they're the nicer and more polite ones. The crazies get the template responses.
I dislike the job and have often refused to do some things here, but there isn't a lot I can do until I find something better. Definitely this isn't the economic environment to be unemployed in.
]]>@RandomHookup: Ya forgot to add the last phrase "in public." to your statement.
]]>@Crystal Wojcinski:
Director?
Plot?
Ideas?
That is so 1970s-1980's...
Digital cam in the back of a rental van...now that is the modern day way due to the "Jackassification" of adult entertainment.
(BTW do not rent any full size multi-passenger vans in Southern California. Just trust me on that one.)
]]>And you know what? Speaking as someone who's been flashed in public a few times, it isn't the greatest experience. It's super creepy. If I had had the home addresses of the men who had flashed me at my disposal, I probably would have reported them, even if I "never had to see them again", as ahoy-captain puts it.
]]>Although slightly creepy
]]>Stop taking it so seriously.
]]>Heh...you said dicks. heh...
]]>I've always wondered about sexual harrasment laws in the workplace where the general public was involved. If a person walks into a restaurant and harrasses the waitress, is that sexual harrasment? (or only if a co-worker, and not a patron, were guilty?) And this example - where the workplace is a prvate home. Does that make a customer an employer?
]]>@Blueskylaw: I went for "Most popular" myself.
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OK, I went "Oldest first"...
After reading this story, I just had to push the "expand all" button/link
]]>It's NEVER a good-looking person doing these things.
]]>In Colorado it is a crime. 18-7-302 CRS Indecent Exposure - class 1 misdemeanor.
]]>Most likely not - I'm about 20 years older than you, based on the quick look-up of your FB profile. Ah well, at least it's good to see there are other Consumerist-enlightened people in LivCo!
]]>You come into someone's home, they live (in the privacy of their own home) as they see fit. If that means jumping naked up and down on the furniture, that's their business.
If you don't like it, you politely leave, and explain that you won't give them service because your techs are uncomfortable.
But is it a crime? Not that I can tell.
]]>Hey neighbor! ;)
]]>Maybe with the charges this guy gets and if he is convicted as a sex offender he may get the help he needs thus saving someone a terrible fate.
Who knows....
On the other hand maybe the tech is a freak too and something very bad went on here.... lol
]]>Heck, I would have said "Wow - it looks exactly like a penis... only smaller!"
]]>I'm willing to bet that if there were more vagina flashing, it would solve all the world's woes. Wars would be ended, no one would ever go hungry, poverty will be a thing of the past - heck, I think that it would also solve global warming!
A guy can dream, right? ;)
]]>@VPea: Check the Internets. I think you'll find some ladies flashing the old hooha.
]]>It never said the guy denied doing it.
]]>first? there will be more! Now I enjoy a penis as much as the next gal but not random wagging.
]]>Thats so sad but i shouldn't talk. The one time Hammond, Indiana made Fark was for a strip club being raided for prostitution. I'm not sure if this is a step up or down from that.
]]>Nice picture choice, though.
]]>I wonder if Ryan (submitter) is someone I know. I don't know Mr. Hit-On-The-Comcast-Guy...
]]>You dont see women flashing vaginas! What is with this behavior. SO bizarre
]]>"I know..."
/cue 80's music
]]>I'l bet money you now gave a porno director an awesome idea.
]]>I sense a double standard! ;)
]]>/sarcasm.
]]>That's quite a range.
And while I am all in favor of keeping one's junk in one's pants in public, it does seem odd that exposing the goodies could get life in prison. Some murderers don't even get anything near that.
]]>* Not mooning, surprisingly. Oh no, he just HAD to "show me his tattoo." God, I need another job.
]]>Maybe he was recreating the "dick wagging" scene that Comcast broadcast during the Super Bowl?
]]>Some of the techs I deal with tell me some horror stories that make this seem tame. I won't go into explict details, but let's say one involved a basement dungeon.
]]>Can one be charged with indecent exposure in one's own home? I realize the perp has a record but wouldn't this be a matter of "he said, he said" unless there is a defining birth mark? Just sayin....
]]>But what exactly does the technician get out of pressing charges here? He's probably never going to see that man again for the rest of his life anyway. I know the technician is the victim of a crime, technically, but doesn't this seem like maybe it's more appropriate as a funny story to tell than a chance to file a police report?
]]>@Chongo:
Seriously, at that point unless the problem was caused by several dozen 100$ bills stuffed into the insulation of the cable i woulda been so outa there too!
]]>For some reason I found that line very funny.
]]>All I can think, is maybe this guy kept hearing Consumerist readers saying "fuck comcast" for so long that he decided to go through with it, you know, for all of our sakes.
]]>Anyway, once we had confirmed a time the customer said "I'm going to abduct the technician." Not an ounce of joking was to be heard in his voice.
I clarified and asked "are you serious?"
He replied, even more sternly than before, "damn right I am. I'm going to kick his ass and keep him here at gunpoint if I have to until my internet is fixed."
At that point I told him that I refused to send out a tech to his home. When he inquired why I told him that I morally wouldn't schedule anyone to go out to someone's home that's actually intent on causing them harm, physical or otherwise.
He was mighty pissed but didn't apologize nor did he even attempt to say he was kidding. I ended up disconnecting the call.
I could understand where he's coming from, I'd be absolutely livid if my internet was down for that long but I mean come on. I don't even like Comcast techs but I'm not going to knowingly send them into any situation where someone has made direct threats against their person.
Long story short: If you're a customer don't do anything illegal thinking you're going to "get back" at the company. It will only set you back.
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