Amish Buggy Buggering Bust

[PCLoadLetter]

Amish man sends inappropriate texts to 12 year old, takes a buggy to meet up with her, gets busted.

God bless the Smoking Gun.

http://bit.ly/mGCFib

The mug shot:

 

[Big Circus]

Good lord, he looks like a guy I used to work with.

 

[sgreenwell]

It's weird that he's fine with using the cell phone, but not a car.

 

[YankeeFan]

Well, in his defense, he thought she was 13.

 

[deskslave]

It's weird that he's fine with using the cell phone, but not a car.

There's pretty much nothing that's not weird about this, but yeah. You'd think that even if they'd managed to make some exception for cell phones, they'd be required to use some Motorola Startec phone from about 2000, rather than one with a camera on it.

 

[poindexter]

Awesome when old technology blends with new.

 

[farmerjerome]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this guy is not going to fair well in prison.

On a slightly unrelated note, my dad had a Mennonite join his fire department about 10 years back. The kid would drink beer like a fish at the meetings, and they caught him watching porn on the VCR used for training videos. However, I don't think there were any texts to underaged girls. Or boys.

 

[HC]

I posted this on Facebook and another SJ poster shared this: .

 

[qtlaw]

When I was a kid they used to give Chinese kids that haircut, fondly known as the "bowl" cut (like a bowl was put on your head and trimmed accordingly).

 

[Brian]

I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine
Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699

 

[Brian]

When I was a kid they used to give Chinese kids that haircut, fondly known as the "bowl" cut (like a bowl was put on your head and trimmed accordingly).

I had that haircut. It was popular for about three years in the mid 1990s again.

Then again, I lived in a town about 40 percent Mennonite. Mostly reformed, though.

 

[Fly]

When I was a kid they used to give Chinese kids that haircut, fondly known as the "bowl" cut (like a bowl was put on your head and trimmed accordingly).

I had that haircut. It was popular for about three years in the mid 1990s again.

Then again, I lived in a town about 40 percent Mennonite. Mostly reformed, though.

Was out in Vegas a couple years ago with our staff for a meeting. One of them is Mennonite. So we go to Rao's for dinner and Bubbles, the big burly maitre'd is seating the eight of us, greeting us all with a handshake and a few nice words..."How are you, good to have you here tonight, enjoy your dinner, who the **** cuts your hair?!?!?!"

The last was directed at my Mennonite brotha. Bowl cut, indeed!

 

[Starman]

I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine
Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699

One seven zero zero, party over, outta time

 

[sportsguydave]

It's weird that he's fine with using the cell phone, but not a car.

There's pretty much nothing that's not weird about this, but yeah. You'd think that even if they'd managed to make some exception for cell phones, they'd be required to use some Motorola Startec phone from about 2000, rather than one with a camera on it.

Apparently the exception has something to do with the cell phone not being tied to a line. Landlines, for example, are forbidden. I worked in a place with a large Amish community several years ago, and it was weird to see Amish-dressed kids in the stands at a basketball game...texting on their phones.

The Amish community across the country is also very close-knit, and apparently when that Amish school shooting happened some years back, most of the Amish knew about it even before the news hit the wires. That cell-phone thing again.

 

[sgreenwell]

It's weird that he's fine with using the cell phone, but not a car.

There's pretty much nothing that's not weird about this, but yeah. You'd think that even if they'd managed to make some exception for cell phones, they'd be required to use some Motorola Startec phone from about 2000, rather than one with a camera on it.

Apparently the exception has something to do with the cell phone not being tied to a line. Landlines, for example, are forbidden. I worked in a place with a large Amish community several years ago, and it was weird to see Amish-dressed kids in the stands at a basketball game...texting on their phones.

The Amish community across the country is also very close-knit, and apparently when that Amish school shooting happened some years back, most of the Amish knew about it even before the news hit the wires. That cell-phone thing again.

Bizarro moment: The last guy to see the Amish shooter before he went on the rampage is a construction builder, and I had to interview him for a story once. I didn't realize this until afterward, when I ran his name through Google and the story popped up.

 

[waterytart]

Apparently the exception has something to do with the cell phone not being tied to a line. Landlines, for example, are forbidden. I worked in a place with a large Amish community several years ago, and it was weird to see Amish-dressed kids in the stands at a basketball game...texting on their phones.

High school kids haven't joined the church, yet. They have a little more latitude when it comes to technology/machinery.

 

[dooley_womack1]

There was a good Cold Case episode about Rumspringge