This is the kind of story Chris, and I just love! I’d dare say any listener to Licking Non-Vanilla (which you listen to here, here, or here) would feel tickled by this as well.
It seems U.S District Judge Paul Maloney ordered a western Michigan mom and dad to pay $30,441 to their son for dumping the son’s extensive porn collection. David Werking, the man ‘aggrieved’, enjoyed the judge’s specific decision this week on what the parents owe after the judge ruled in favor of David’s lawsuit eight months ago. According to accounting from emails that went back and forth between son and father, David’s collection, including individual titles of 1,605 DVDs and VHS tapes, was worth $25,000.
Werking had lived at his folks’ home in Grand Haven, Michigan, for near a year post his divorce, then moved to Muncie, Indiana. Unwilling to get the collection over to Muncie and uncomfortable with it sitting in their home, the elder Werkings destroyed the David’s naughty stuff. David learned about this after moving to Indiana and inquiring after his porn.
“Frankly, David, I did you a big favor getting rid of all this stuff,” David’s dad said via email.
It’s important also to note that The Ottowa County Sheriff’s Office in Michigan reviewed David’s collection and reported it contained no child pornography. So, it is legal property someone (even though that someone was a blood relative and owned the domicile where the material was housed) deemed offense and simply threw away.
This reminds me of a story that happened a couple of years ago around my ‘burb.
A dentist owns a big ranch house on a corner in a semi-well-to-do neighborhood about five minutes from my house (my house is in a middle-class neighborhood). He takes to outfitting (some would say littering) his house, garage, front lawn and driveway with mannequins, and all manner of decorations depending on the holiday. He begins usually with a huge Halloween display he starts tinkering with mid-September and has traffic backing up throughout October to view his amazing corner visual treat. Yes, it’s a nuisance to those who live around that way…but it ain’t illegal.
Come Easter and July 4th this one particular year (2019 when all was still normal and fun round planet Earth way), the good doctor set female mannequins in his driveway for Easter dressed in bikinis and bunny ears, for the fourth in just red, white and blue bikinis. A neighbor found the display offensive and came onto the property and broke one of the mannequins in half.
She was offended, just like David Werking’s parents were, but it’s illegal to destroy other people’s shit! And the lady was slapped with a summons.
Score one for Judge Maloney, we say. Buy just think what could have been in David’s collection?!
Oh, I did get round to seeing the mannequins, even with one ripped in half.
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