[Brilliant]

“And it’s important that the public understands this.”

I wonder why? So that we can all exercise our right to vent profanity without fear of prosecution?

[twigs]

If profanity speech could be prosecuted, then eventually any class of speech could be.

[jiggyboy]

I myself welcome this ruling. I will be working on my car in the driveway this afternoon.

[discostu]

If you can’t drop F-bombs in your own home, especially when the toilet is overflowing, what good is the concept of private property?

[muawiyah]

Gilman was out of bounds to be harrassing Herb in her home attempting to tend to her overflowing toilet.

He should have thanked his local family gods for interceding with her to put down her M60 machinegun and bag of grenades.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Because the profanity was shouted inside the “perpetrator’s” home.

If a neighbor can have someone prosecuted for what they say inside their home, where would it end? It either violates a noise ordinance, or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, then you can scream whatever you want. The neighbor is also free to scream back all the profanities they want.

Personally, I’d move into a nicer neighborhood.

[jim_trent]

> “I wonder why? So that we can all exercise our right to vent profanity without fear of prosecution?”

Yes. Anything and everything a conservative says is profanity to a liberal.

[delacoert]

It sounds like the off duty police officer was being a... well let's say he certainly took himself very seriously.

[mountainbunny]

I wonder why? So that we can all exercise our right to vent profanity without fear of prosecution?

Yes, basically. We don't prosecute non-threatening speech, no matter how nasty or rude. Even when cops hear it and don't like it. The police are not the arbiters of good taste, nor are they community censors.