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Initech

(99,915 posts)
Sat May 25, 2013, 02:21 PM May 2013

It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's The Thong Cape Scooter Man Of Madison, WI!

A 56-year-old Madison man who likes to ride around town on a scooter wearing a thong, a helmet and a black cape with red trim might be a disturbing sight to schoolchildren and teachers, but he’s not breaking any laws.

Police were called May 16 by staff at John F. Kennedy Elementary School after the man police call “Thong Cape Scooter Man” rode by when students were walking to a bus after school.

He didn’t do anything more than ride by, according to a Madison police news release. But parents and teachers were disturbed.

A police sergeant went to the man’s house to have a brief talk with him.

“He said he exercised poor judgment by going by the school at that time of day, it was unintentional and he just happened to be traveling through the area,” police spokesman Joel DeSpain said.

http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/thong-cape-scooter-man-is-a-sight-but-he-s/article_b1207bb2-03e5-5f28-9939-9c04f9f10c6b.html


OK I know we have a lot of DUers from Wisconsin, who is it?
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It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's The Thong Cape Scooter Man Of Madison, WI! (Original Post) Initech May 2013 OP
Why would anyone call the police on him? nt ZombieHorde May 2013 #1
Maybe they didn't like the display of his business in a revealing thong, and characterized MADem May 2013 #5
"A police sargeant went to the man's house to have a brief talk with him." Mnemosyne May 2013 #2
Define brief. Initech May 2013 #3
It's Wisconsin Warren DeMontague May 2013 #4
Yes--the cold does have a way of solving that problem... nt MADem May 2013 #6
That video's a riot. "We're gonna get him" Warren DeMontague May 2013 #7
He made the news, too--no law concerning questionable taste!!! MADem May 2013 #8

MADem

(135,425 posts)
5. Maybe they didn't like the display of his business in a revealing thong, and characterized
Sun May 26, 2013, 05:00 PM
May 2013

his clothing as lewd and lascivious to the police?

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
7. That video's a riot. "We're gonna get him"
Sun May 26, 2013, 05:07 PM
May 2013

Makes me remember what I love about Midwestern sensibilities. Those people are a hoot.

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