Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Intrusion Of Seclusion

Episode Date: March 28, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. Last week, I told you a little bit about a Charlotte man who is people in the neighborhood is all wound up at him because he walks around his house naked. Right. And he's been in trouble. People are upset and people, you know, the one mother-seller daughter every time, I'm going to go out, what's his face naked in the door again? No, okay, I can go.

So, you know, you know he's there. and he's been there for forever, right? Jared Leeper. Okay? Now, there's an update to the story that happened this week. This from WBTV on your side. The president of the HOA says there's peace in the community tonight because there's finally a plan in place to deal with the nude neighbor.

Any more episodes of nudity going forward, police say there will be arrest and criminal prostitution will follow. But the neighbor Gerard Leeper says his privacy has been violated and his feelings hurt. They said, know me, because I got nothing but love inside of me. For anybody. Gerard Leeper says he is not a threat to the Cardinal Glenn neighborhood. But the people who live on those sage circles say they've had enough of him and his alleged tendencies to stand at his door or by windows nude. Why stand at the door naked?

We have to practice serenity in this world. And that's what... Okay, easy. The world was everyone to understand serenity, rationalism, being reasonable. Labor says from his point of view, neighbors have been on a witch hunt, taking pictures of him while he's inside his house. I would not stand outside my door naked, and no one has a picture of me standing outside my door naked. What they have is a picture with intrusion of seclusion.

Neighbors say what they see is a man with no regard for communities. or decency. Residents say when they reported Leeper to officers in the past, not much was done because he was on his property. Fed up, they held a closed meeting with police. Leaper went to the meeting to hear what the neighborhood planned to do. Criminal prosecution is one of those avenues. Tetard Golding says Leeper intentionally displays himself again so a neighbor in a public place can see him, he will be arrested. But first, the community wants Leeper to get counseling. The neighborhood is that calm. Is that calm as for right now?

With the weather warming up and neighbors about to spend more time outside, a frustrated Cardinal Glenn community was desperate to solve the new neighbor problem. To see if you're naked inside your house. He went home from the meeting alone, but didn't stay home. He's a man convinced a wrong was done to him. The picture is not on the front porch. It's inside my home. In Charlotte, Colleen Harry, WBTV on your side.

Okay. Now, I'll give you that Gerard Butler may have other issues going on. Okay? I got that. But that intrusion of seclusion is an issue. House, man's, kingdom, king of castle, that kind of thing. You should be able to walk around your house naked. Do I want Gerard in my neighborhood?

You know, probably not. But if he was there and he's in his, you know, if he comes out of the house, then you got an issue. He's in his house. Yeah. That's, you know, that's the naked guy's house. Don't look when you walk by.

I just, I don't, it doesn't make any sense. And now, now they're telling him, oh, you've got to seek counseling. Yeah, no. How about this? How about, you don't look at my house. How about that? How about if I come out of my house and I'm naked, then the police can do something.

How about that? But if I'm in my house, how about I'm fine? Okay. Now, of course, the news gives you the report. There's one report that says he was arrested eight times by the police. for indecent exposure. Sure. He was arrested eight times because they arrested him and then they realized, oh wait, he's in his house. We can't do that. But we made the neighbors feel good

because we arrested him. I'll get out of here, Gerard. But there were a couple other charges. At least the TV station gave you the real charges. Gerard Leeper has been charged with indecent exposure several times before and convicted once in 2006. He was also convicted of assault on a female in 1998. Okay. So, some kind of fight, and they convicted him once on indecent exposure. All the other times, no.

I get it. Most people, you know, you don't want that in your neighborhood. I got it. I got it. But while the intrusion of seclusion may not quite be the right line, I like it. I like it. The intrusion of seclusion.

And Gerard, no, seriously, unless they, you know, you've got some kind of law, which I doubt in the homeowners association, otherwise they would have used it already. Tell them no on the counseling unless the Homeowner Association is going to be footing the bill for that. and the police, notice he said possible. Yeah, they're just going to rest, make the people feel good because I'm in my house. Now, the comments of this story are fascinating. They go, they really do go both ways. One, of course, talks about actually making him disappear. I live in Charlotte, and I can assure you if you lived in my neighborhood, he would have most likely gone missing years ago.

Oh, really? Yeah, somebody in our neighborhood we don't like. We kill them. We make them go away. A few neighbors used to make up some signs that read cover up, dude. I'm okay with that. Why not? I think he should have had a sign, too.

Quit looking at my house, peeping, Tom's. Now, this guy's been arrested eight times for a decent exposure. He's got some serious mental problems. The public has a right to walk down the street and not see his genitalia. He's right there within clear view of anybody passing by. He needs to be constrained by the law. Yeah, coming down the street, the public street, on his private property inside his private home. One comment, talk about a victimless non-crime.

What the hell is wrong with people who are objecting to this? I'd rather have a nude neighbor than a neighbor with a leaf blower or a neighbor with blaring music. or a neighbor with barking dogs or a neighbor blowing tobacco or marijuana smoke onto my property. Why are people looking in his house anyway? Shouldn't they be cited as peeping thoms?

In Oregon there was a guy who mowed the lawn nude. It wasn't illegal. Okay. That's Oregon. And nobody wants to see the guy mowing lawn naked. Whether riding lawnmower, pushing lawnmower, whatever. And I seriously,

I'm okay with, I know, you know, what's the difference between it's on my property? Really, a lot of that property from the center of the street, and I forget different residences, different municipalities have different footage, but from the middle of the street into your yard is the Kingsland. You still have to keep it up. You still take care of that little strip of grass between the sidewalk and the road, and then you take care of the grass between the sidewalk and the house,

but a lot of that grass between the sidewalk and the house really belongs to the king. So when the king, oh, I'm sorry, did I say king? I meant when the municipalities, cities, counties come by and say, we're going to widen the road. And you, we're going to knock this back a little bit toward your house. And you could say, what, that's my yard. And they'll say, yeah, no. No, it's not. But if you're inside your home,

windows open, you should be able to walk around naked. And I'll bet you, I'd like to see what kind of a huge issue it would be if it was a hot girl standing at the front door talking on the phone. I'm sure every husband in the neighborhood would be going, hey, isn't it time to take a walk on it?