Sometimes you hear stories that defy imagination, defy all logic and common sense, that you assume that they must be made up. There are times that the law is so flawed, so fucked up… in post-industrial democratic societies like the United States these miscarriages of justices no longer occur. Things like this aren’t allowed to happen, are they? Unfortunately, they do. Which brings us to the tragic case of Genarlow Wilson. What has been allowed to happen to this young man is truly a crime.

At the age of seventeen, Genarlow Wilson had his entire life ahead of him. Honour student, Home-Coming King and football star for his high school team. He was being recruited by all the leading colleges to join their football program. Then, on the day he was due to sit his SAT’s, his life changed forever. He was arrested. In Douglas County, he was accused of inappropriate sexual acts at a News Year’s Eve party. A jury acquitted him of the allegation of rape but convicted him of Aggravated Child Molestation for a voluntary act of oral sex with another teenager. He was 17, and she was 15.

Imagine the scene. Genarlow Wilson and his friends checked into a hotel/motel for New Years. Some girls, some bourbon and a little marijuana. One of the young men turned on a video camera.

On tape, cops saw a 15-year-old girl, a 10th-grader, performing oral sex on a partygoer and, after finishing with him, turning and performing the act on Genarlow. She was the instigator, according to her mother’s testimony. Problem was, the girl was a year under the age of consent. Local prosecutors called the act aggravated child molestation, following the letter and not the spirit of the law, which was designed to prosecute pedophiles. A week later, on the first day of the second semester of his senior year, the police went to the school and arrested the boys. Wilson was charged with four felonies and taken from the building in handcuffs. Not long before, he’d been in the newspaper for being all-conference in football. Now, he was on the front page, branded a rapist and child molester. (more…)

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We were recently pointed to UPS and their rather lame whiteboard campaign about how efficient they were at getting your parcels to places around our lonely planet. I don’t think I could completely agree with the Daydreamer’s “rip-off” claims, but it certainly wasn’t a very creative campaign.

While we’re on the topic of whiteboards though, here is some real genius. Worth a look for the animation and the funky beat. Check it out Minilogue below. Can you do this?

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