Ha!

We have all been told there are sexual predators out there but there has never been a way to separate the Ted Bundys from the Bree Van De Kamps. Until now.

Florida’s Bradford County Police Force have gone to extreme measures to ensure that “no sexual predator goes unnoticed.”

How did they do this? Oh! Just by putting up huge red signs outside 18 of the registered sexual predators houses letting the public know exactly who lives there and what they get up to.

Not ideal.

GTN News said that the signs which have been put up are under the Florida statute and is to “inform the community and the public of the presence.”

Here is a detailed writeup on what the sign would say:

[Name] is a convicted Sexual Predator and lives at this location.

(Side note: Florida classifies sex offenders and sexual predators differently; the latter are those convicted of a single first-degree felony or multiple second-degree felonies of a sexual nature.)

OK, so this does seem a bit extreme – imagine someone putting a sign outside your house of every felony that has befallen you?

“Joe Blogs is a convicted public urinator.”

Why have they decided to go this hard at the guys? County Police Sheriff Gordon Smith explained:

Though they already post notices to Facebook and go into the community to alert residents, we realized there was a possible issue with continued notification. If somebody moves in after we’ve gone around notifying people, then they’re not aware that there’s a predator there. So how are these now-informed residents reacting?

This is all about keeping our community safe and to make sure we don’t have one more victim of a sexual crime in my community as long as I’m the sheriff

It has definitely caught the attention of the neighbours:

It’s like twenty feet behind our house. That’s just scary. Dude could be like watching out his back window looking at us.

Hmm – probably.

Makes you think – would you rather know about it, or not?

[Source: Mygnt]