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Old 03-16-2010, 09:28 PM
 
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I think it's because we have such doggone good looking girls here.

Better watch your step, though, because their dads do have guns. And they know how to use them.

I'm talking the GIRLS know how to use them. When we had the ward turkey shoot last fall, some of the girls were out-skeet-shooting the guys. And their moms sure were comfortable with the shotguns as well.
I assume that is tongue-in-cheek, because if it isn't, it is quite ignorant.

Idaho does a very good job tracking sex offenders, and the results are easily found on the web. Idaho may attract more offenders because of it being rural, but that is where it ends.

Ward turkey shoots? Offenders moving to Idaho because of good looking girls? Come on. Again, I hope I am simply missing an attempt at humor.
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Old 03-16-2010, 09:40 PM
 
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Default Sex Offenders

To the OP,

I was alarmed about the number (compared to my current and soon to be former state) at first glance.

When I did some research, I found that my state does not include the Level 1 offenders (3 categories based upon a long list of critera, with Level 3 being the highest risk) on the state's website. At first, Idaho seemed to have a hgher per capita population of offenders, but when the Level 1's were added in, Idaho had less (if I my memory is accurate).
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Old 03-16-2010, 11:09 PM
 
Location: Moscow
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I assume that is tongue-in-cheek, because if it isn't, it is quite ignorant.

Idaho does a very good job tracking sex offenders, and the results are easily found on the web. Idaho may attract more offenders because of it being rural, but that is where it ends.

Ward turkey shoots? Offenders moving to Idaho because of good looking girls? Come on. Again, I hope I am simply missing an attempt at humor.
I doubt if the skeet shooting comment is humor. I've heard of Wards having them.
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Old 03-16-2010, 11:15 PM
 
Location: Boise
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Just a note, on Monday the Idaho Senate voted 35-0 to change the law regarding statutory rape. It would lower the age of consent to 16 so long as the male is 20 years of age or younger. I think this is a good move. Now it goes to the House, I haven't read "eye on Boise" yet, so it may have passed there already.

Also, I have a friend of the family who's younger brother is registered for lewd conduct. It turns out he mooned someone and a third party saw his other parts and was offended, sexually I guess. Should he be marked for life? No. And Lewd conduct can include anything from a case as trivial as that, to something much worse, in which a child is actually abused. So some of these things can be misleading.
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Old 03-16-2010, 11:33 PM
 
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I agree with this statutory rape law being repealed.

But, to say that sex offenders move to Idaho due to "good looking girls" is totally ridiculous. Give me a break.
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Old 03-16-2010, 11:37 PM
 
Location: Moscow
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But, to say that sex offenders move to Idaho due to "good looking girls" is totally ridiculous. Give me a break.
I believe it is called a joke, pw72.
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Old 03-17-2010, 12:23 AM
 
Location: Sandpoint, ID
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The joke went over like a whoopie cushion at a funeral...but let's let it go....I'm sure it was not meant with ill intent....
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Old 03-17-2010, 09:50 AM
 
Location: Idaho
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But, to say that sex offenders move to Idaho due to "good looking girls" is totally ridiculous. Give me a break.
OK you're right, it is totally ridiculous. That's usually what trips my sarcasm detector--if something is so ridiculous it's hard to believe anyone can be serious about it. Sorry if the joke was a bit tasteless.

However, other than that I'm pretty serious. There are a lot of good looking girls in Idaho. And some of them do know how to shoot. The skeet shoot really happened, and the girls were pretty good. Actually, the shootout for first place was between the elder's quorum president and the scout master. It's fun to watch them blow three clay targets out of the air, time after time, just waiting for one of them to miss.

I know the scout master's wife can shoot because we had moose steak at one of the campouts last year, and she's the one that shot the moose. With a shotgun. Yeah. When she saw the puzzled look on my face she had to explain. I guess you can put a pretty big slug in a shotgun. But you still have to get quite close to the moose.
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Old 03-17-2010, 07:37 PM
 
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The problem with humor on sites like this is there is no context. Anything and everything can be misinterpreted. No harm, no foul. As Son of Sagle said, let's move on.

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Old 03-22-2010, 01:19 PM
 
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The problem with humor on sites like this is there is no context. Anything and everything can be misinterpreted. No harm, no foul. As Son of Sagle said, let's move on.
I got it! I guess you have to be a Mormon to understand how funny/quirky that really is. It has much to do with the humor in presenting the opposite of a stereotype. (Mormon girls often = sweet innocent spirits that stay inside, cook, clean and make babies) Thanks for the chuckle!

I'm moving to Idaho and have zero interest in owning a gun or learning to shoot. I don't have very long fingernails either (for scratching their eyes out.) I can kick but my aim isn't always right. Don't know any martial arts. So I hope Idaho is safe for women and little girls!!! I have several of them.
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