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Scairp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 02:28 AM
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GOP Att'y suspected "naked photog"
Hope this isn't a dupe. Pulled this off of my hometown newspaper online.

COLUMBUS | A staff attorney for the Ohio House Republican Caucus was arrested late Wednesday and police suspect he is the flasher known around Columbus as the "naked photographer."

Columbus police arrested Steve Linnen in an alley behind a supermarket near where a woman reported being approached by a naked man who snapped her photo and then ran away. It was the 39th incident in which a naked man has ambushed a woman and photographed her shocked expression. Twenty-eight of them have happened in Columbus.

Linnen, 33, is paid $42,349 a year as deputy legal counsel for the House Republican Caucus. As such, he is on the staff of House Speaker Larry Householder, R-Glenford. Linnen has worked for the House Republicans since Dec. 28, 2000. He has been placed on paid leave pending the outcome of the Franklin County prosecutor's criminal investigation.


more>
http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/1121flasher.html

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Lady President Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 02:46 AM
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1. Wow
I live in the suburb of Columbus where the gross sexual imposition and kidnapping occured, but we didn't get the full story. The local television stations showed live coverage of the arrest Weds. night and that's all everyone is discussing around here. I knew he was an attorney, but I had no idea that he worked for the House Repubicans. I didn't think this story could creep me out anymore than it already has, but I was wrong.

Thanks for the link.
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Maeve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 07:25 AM
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9. Ooo, you missed it then!
Channel 10 mentioned Householder (House Speaker) and noted that someone in state government gave the suspect's name to police months ago--but the investigation was dropped.
They also blocked showing his face, since they plan to put him in a line up. Whether anyone will recognize his face or not (since all he ever wore was a baseball cap and he put the camera to his face to snap a picture of his victims) :shrug:
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:14 PM
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27. Will they be looking at his face?
:shrug:
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Logansquare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 04:29 PM
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33. Get a load of this frat rat
http://www.nbc4columbus.com/news/2654704/detail.html

For some reason, he isn't smiling in this photo...
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 02:46 AM
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2. more gop family values
seems they just can't escape deviance.
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 02:52 AM
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3. Another fine example of..
Republican family values.

On a related note, when I was a teenager a friend and I were "flashed." We pointed at his thingy and laughed and he ran away, upset. I'm pretty sure these guys get off on the power they have over women, to "shock" them. I think more girls should fight back when possible, like the Catholic schoolgirls who chased their flasher down and held him until the police came.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 02:57 AM
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4. This isn't the 1st time a Republican has gone wacko
since their mass assault on Bill Clinton, and their mass pretentious, pompous, holier-than-thou orgy of self-righteousness.

I REALLY wish someone had been keeping newsclips on all their stories for a book.

Here's more google had on this character:

(snip) Who Is The Alleged Naked Photographer?
Statehouse Workers Shocked To Hear Of Arrest

POSTED: 5:53 p.m. EST November 20, 2003
UPDATED: 8:17 p.m. EST November 20, 2003

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man who police believe is the naked photographer has been employed at the Ohio Statehouse for nearly three years, NewsChannel 4's Holly Hollingsworth reported.



People who worked with Stephen Linnen, 33, who is an attorney in the House of Representatives' majority Caucus, said they were stunned by his arrest.

Linnen was known at the Statehouse as a good employee and a quiet man, Hollingsworth reported.

Linnen was arrested Wednesday night and charged with public indecency and assault. Gahanna police charged Linnen Thursday with one count of gross sexual imposition and one count of abduction for an alleged incident involving two teenagers in Gahanna.

The naked photographer has terrorized women in Columbus and the surrounding communities for the past 1.5 years. The man, often wearing nothing but a hat and a smile, would sneak up on women, take their picture and run away.

Linnen has a law degree and started working at the Statehouse in December 2000 as an executive assistant in the office of the Speaker of the House. He was promoted to deputy legal counsel after proving his good service to the House, Hollingsworth reported. (snip/....)

http://www.nbc4columbus.com/news/2653607/detail.html
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 03:29 AM
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6. It's always the "quiet ones"
How weird. Takes pictures of people when he's naked. Perhaps a projection that he would like women to take pictures of him naked? What a weirdo.
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 02:57 AM
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5. Another Rethug Pervert
I guess he wasn't satisfied with getting his jollies off on someone elses' money.
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Sparky McGruff Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-03 12:03 AM
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39. What's next for Smileyboy?
When does he get a talk show? Will it be on Fox News or MSNBC? They need someone new to talk about the decline of morality brought about by "Libruls".
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 04:13 AM
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7. Gotta love family values
;)
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 05:18 AM
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8. Hey thanks. I keep a file on this stuff. "GOP Perverts"
They are really so sex obsessed it's scary.
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Pattib Donating Member (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:00 PM
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30. They keep a file at Salon.
If you go to salon.com, click on tabletalk. Go to the politics
section and click on whitehouse.

The topic of the thread is called, "Right Wing Moral
Cripples II". Guess Thread number I was overloaded. I
love reading through all that stuff. There is some good
reading in that thread. LOL! 
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 07:38 AM
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10. Poor guy! Probably the only way he could get off, perhaps?
This may start a new craz or fad among the republicans.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 08:15 AM
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11. Let it all
Hang out !
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Jeff in Cincinnati Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 08:21 AM
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12. He'll get off, all right
They all ways do.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 09:10 AM
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13. Like Rush N/t
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 10:01 AM
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14. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Does being perverted make them become republicans, or the other way around?
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KinkyDem Donating Member (748 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:04 AM
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17. Hey now
don't go desparaging perverts!

I can't asay I approve of what he did, it certainly does not follow the Safe, Sane, Consensual mantra of the kink community.

On the other hand I have been amazed by the number of conservative rupublicans in the kink community. Very sad to see people who are persicuted persicute others.

The Kinky One
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KayLaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:14 AM
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18. Don't know
But what is with all the groping, flashing, etc? Don't they know there are plenty of ways to have sex without alarming others?
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KinkyDem Donating Member (748 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:27 AM
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19. Well yes of course there are
If someone wants to participate in kiny and or alternitive sexual practices the community standard is "Safe, Sane, Consensual".

My point here is that what he did was not safe, for his victoms or himself. It was not sane in that what he did was well beyond accepted sociatol norms, and in the public view. It was not consensual in that his vicotms did not consent to be hatrrased, exposed or photographed.

Please do not confuse this creep with those of us who are kinky or perverted but do not approve of him or his actions.

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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 10:53 AM
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15. Kick!
:dem:
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demdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 10:59 AM
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16. WARNING: THIS COULD MAKE YOU BLOW BEVERAGES OUT YOUR NOSE
You have been warned







Thia is the actual police composite drawing of the suspect that was circulated before they caught him.....




I kid you not....



http://www.nbc4columbus.com/news/2460449/detail.html
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Socialist Christian Donating Member (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:29 AM
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20. Oh Shit ROTFLMAO.<NT>
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KayLaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:36 AM
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22. OMG!
If someone walked up to me looking like that, I'd be shocked no matter what he was wearing. That's like something from Satuday Night Live.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:48 AM
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24. Man, I *love* that drawing!
He certainly looks like a happy pervert, doesn't he?
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:54 AM
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26. save that image! he's going to be a recurring character!
as the drama unfolds...
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:00 PM
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31. Thanks for the warning!
Funny as hell!!!!!
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demdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 01:43 PM
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32. Shameless after lunch kick...just for the chuckles
:kick:

I just can't get over the big cheesy grin. lololol
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:35 AM
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21. All I Have To Say Is: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
more idiocy from the "right". Make asses of yourselves, boys. Party it up now cuz you're soooo gone next year!!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:41 AM
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23. And what does Santorum think about this?
My goodness! What does Rick Santorum have to say about this moral indecency? Buhwahwahwahwah!

Send him an email and ask him :-)

http://santorum.senate.gov/
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PaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-03 02:34 AM
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41. Santorum probably
called the media and told them they'd better not run it again...oh the poor guy..lol..
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bmbmd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:51 AM
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25. Another example of the Peter Principle
rising to his level of incompetence.....
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:45 PM
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28. From NBC4Columbus.com
...Police (also) charged Linnen...with one count of gross sexual imposition and one count of abduction for an alleged incident involving two teenagers...

Previous Stories:
* July 11, 2002: Alleged Naked Photographer Goes For Shock Value
* October 16, 2002: Naked Photographer Reportedly Strikes Again
* June 27, 2003: Police: Naked Photographer Now More Aggressive
* July 18, 2003: Naked Photographer Strikes Again
* October 3, 2003: Naked Photographer Allegedly Grabs Woman


Note the escalation of his aggressiveness--it's why such people are so terribly, terribly dangerous. It was only a matter of time before taking the photo and running away would stop being enough of an orgasm for him. Like any good addict, he finds he has to "kick it up a notch" to derive the same amount of satisfaction. How many months away was he from an actual sexual assault, or even murder?

http://www.nbc4columbus.com/news/2653607/detail.html


rocknation



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Lady President Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 12:57 PM
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29. I went to law school with him
I didn't recognize his name at first, but there was a picture of him in the paper this morning. I now understand the expression "you could have knocked me over with a feather."

We had a couple classes together. He was really rude a couple times to one our professors. In the other class we did mock arbitrations from complaints until the 'case' went to trial and were paired off against another student. Everyone wanted to win, but no one would sandbag the other side because our grades depended on doing okay. He was the guy who had to file dozens of 'complaints' and 'objections' to toy with the other student.

Even so, this shocks the hell out of me. He was jerk, but kind of funny in a smart-ass way. Also, the article mentioned he was divorced. Evidently, he married and divorced since 1999, so I think he must have some major sexuality issues/problems/anger/etc.
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 07:01 PM
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34. You have to laugh at this after the indignation of the Repugs
during the Clinton fiasco.

Jon Stewart had fun with the marriage records of Repugs last night. What a "family values" party they are.
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Timefortruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 07:35 PM
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35. No wonder they didn't catch him sooner!


It must be hard to describe someone with a flash in your eyes.
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MrMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 07:58 PM
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37. They got the nose right.
He has one.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 07:45 PM
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36. How does one get into something this weird?
Edited on Fri Nov-21-03 07:46 PM by GloriaSmith
Did he just write a list of things he likes to do and decide to combine it all into one f'd up experience??

Things I like to do:

photography
being naked
suprising women
running

lol, seriously, what are the steps involved in thinking crap like this up?? Are there any psychologists on DU that can help me understand?
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Oreegone Donating Member (726 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 11:48 PM
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38. We saw you weiner
You oughta be at a nudist colony.....confused fellow alrigh.
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PaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-03 02:32 AM
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40. OMG!! I saw this last nite
on our local news in Scranton PA..had no idea he was the guy! He was naked and took pix of women expressions/reactions when they saw him naked..It takes all kinds, doesn't it..lol
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