by TChris

Raymond McNealy mooned his neighbor during an argument. No, McNealy isn't 12; he's 44. He was charged with indecent exposure, a crime that, in Maryland, carries up to 3 years in prison. McNealy won't be going to prison for dropping trou, because a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled that buttocks are not among the "private parts" that cannot be publicly exposed under state law.

"If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," Judge John W. Debelius III said after the bench trial, reversing the ruling of a District Court judge.

The judge noted that McNealy would have been convicted if he'd been prosecuted for being a jerk. True, although there isn't enough jail space in the country to hold everyone who could be convicted of jerkiness.