Man caught having sex with table gets 6 months

Art Price - Bellevue Suspect

Posted: Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 6:11 p.m.
BELLEVUE, OH -- Police say a man was arrested after admitting to, and being caught on DVD having sex with his picnic table repeatedly.

Investigators say they received a tip that Art Price Jr., 40, of 146 Brinker St. in Bellevue was having sex with a picnic table while outside on the deck. The incidents occurred between January and March 2008.

Police say on March 13, the tipster dropped off three DVDs which showed Price in the act. On four occasions, Price is seen naked and masturbating in the rear room near the open doorway; he then comes out to the deck. He tilts the metal round picnic table on its side and lays up against it and has sexual intercourse with the table. Afterwards he cleans the table and the deck.

Police say the the incidents occurred close to Ridge Elementary School.

On March 20 Huron County prosecutors met with investigating officers and were shown the DVDs. Later that day, Price was brought in for questioning.

Police say that during questioning, Price admitted he had sex with the picnic table. He also confirmed the incidents caught on the DVD and admitted to having sex with the table inside his home.

On June 18, 2008, Price pleaded 'no contest' to disseminating harmful material to juveniles and public indecency.  According the the Huron County Department of Corrections, he was sentenced to six months in jail.

Below is a comment taken from the comments area of this article.  I could not have said it better myself.

Who was this guy's lawer?

This story is full of holes. THREE DVDs! If someone had a problem with what the guy was doing, how/why did they watch him enough times over a 3 month period to fill THREE DVDs worth of material before turning him in???! The ONLY reason someone would do this is either they were a voyer themselves (which to me is worse than the indiscretion of the guy that got arrested) or they tried to blackmail him with all the video.

As far as the charges, what harmful materials were disseminated to juveniles? The story says that he lived close to a school, but was his deck actually visable from the school? Looking a map, that address is about a block away from the school and has a row of trees in between. Did he do his deed during the school day or was he out there at night when the school was empty? Similarly on the public indecency charge, is is deck publicly viewable or does someone have to be treaspassing in order to, say, take video of his private activites on his own property let alone IN HIS OWN HOUSE? It sounds to me like the "tipster" committed more of a crime than the guy that got sent to prison.

And for cryin' out loud, SIX months in prison for public indecency!!! Either this story is leaving out some major details, or our justice system has gone off a cliff.

— J Slater, California