August 15, 2011 in Outdoors, City, Idaho

Naked fishing nets a ride to the Spokane calaboose

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The wildlife at West Medical Lake on Sunday was maybe a little wilder than the law will allow, deputies said today.

A father and two sons reported seeing a naked man fishing along the shore while they boated nearby.

Spokane County deputies arrested Dean H. Meginniss, 54, of Spokane Valley, on a felony charge of indecent exposure following the 2:15 p.m. incident.

Staff at a nearby resort said they had been hearing complaints for weeks about a naked man fishing at the lake.

Meginniss was also wanted on an arrest warrant for stalking, and his rap sheet includes a conviction for indecent exposure in 2009.

13 comments on this story so far. Add yours!

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  SpokyDaBear on August 15 at 11:00 a.m.

  Was he wearing his bicycle helmet?

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  EagleEye on August 15 at 11:08 a.m.

  The man’s previous allegations aside, it’s hard to believe that it’s actually considered a felony to be out in nature without clothes. Especially if he was out of visual sight from the vast majority of people (except nearby boaters). Maybe a misdemeanor would be more appropriate.

  Are we a puritanical society or what? Europeans think we’re stark, raving nuts…

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  maria on August 15 at 11:13 a.m.

  Maybe they didn’t like the bait he was using.

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  horse_feathers on August 15 at 11:21 a.m.

  I hear inch-worms work real good there.

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  Mike1950 on August 15 at 11:29 a.m.

  For a fishing story I’m disappointed the reporter didn’t tell us if this method of fishing was successful or not. Was he dragging gear or using bait?

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  dkerns on August 15 at 11:38 a.m.

  Sounds like the bulls have rounded up a real desperado.

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  The_Seer on August 15 at 12:12 p.m.

  Calling that assemblage of camping trailers and beat to hell fishing dock at West Medical Lake a “resort” requires a monstrous leap of imagination.

  A felony? Really? I thought we were “broke?” Apparently money still exists to incarcerate a person who wasn’t harming anyone and then track them for decades while parolees?

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  The_Seer on August 15 at 12:14 p.m.

  The grounds of Eastern State Hospital are clearly visible from all vantages at West Medical. Maybe they should have just dropped dude off there?

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  MrNatural on August 15 at 1:31 p.m.

  A fishing exhibition

  I was trolling all night by the pale moon light when the dawn began to break
  When over on the shore what there was in store was a moon of a double take.
  It was a frightful sight such a pasty blight all shriveled where the cold wind blows
  What kind of a man with a cottontail tan would fish without his clothes?
  As I drifted by he had cast his fly and his shorts and socks and his shirt.
  In his birthday suit was this weird galoot prancing around in the dirt.
  He yelled “Gittin Any?” and I though “here’s a penny” and shook my head with a no.
  I ain’t takin that bait from a jaybird skate and swiftly began to row
  But as fortune smiles when the sheriff riles over turpitude’s ill fate
  For across the lake they marched this flake right in to Eastern State

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  misjustice on August 15 at 2:25 p.m.

  Good one, Natch!

  I don’t understand the commotion; I always fish nude!
  ; )

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  MrNatural on August 15 at 3:20 p.m.

  …thanks MisJ…me too :)…and I might make the 22nd…

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  Ed Byrnes on August 15 at 7:31 p.m.

  Mis J and Natch, now I know what I need to do to improve my fishing ;)

  I hope to see you both on the 22nd :)

  Ed

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  Teseract on August 15 at 7:47 p.m.

  A friend of mine from Finland once joked that the reason Europe was so liberal with skin is because they shipped all their religious nuts off to America in the 1600’s.

  The Pilgrims were English Puritans made up of mostly uneducated farmers that separated from the Church of England because they were such prudes not even the Church of England agreed with them. They left England for Amsterdam but it was too liberal for them and they didn’t like the Dutch influence on their children (too liberal) so they shipped themselves off to America so they could raise their children in a way that would insure they would be gigantic prudes as well.

  Then you wonder why this country is so skin-shy and religious-fanatical? It’s genetic… we’ve been feeling guilt over our own skin for centuries starting with the first settlers in this country.