Convicted Sex Offender Charged in Bathroom Stall Masturbation Incident

You know, sometimes we feel sorry for police officers. Sometimes we're happier than we can say to be lucky enough to not have their jobs. We're not sure how we'd react to some of the interesting people they run into.

Take this guy, for example. His name's David John Hardy, and he's considered to be a “predatory offender” by the state of Minnesota. And some poor schmuck found him inside a bathroom stall in Panera Bread, asleep, with his pants around his ankles and pornography spread out around him. Seems Hardy decided to catch some Zs in the middle of a masturbation session.

Here's where the story goes awry. Hardy is a registered sex offender who had recently moved away from his registered address. Unfortunately, he had yet to inform police of his new address when he was picked up, for alleged indecent exposure, at Panera.

We're sort of confused. Did police need something to charge him with besides failing to report his address in order to charge him with failing to report his address? And if so, couldn't they have gone with something better than indecent exposure? He was inside a bathroom stall. If anything, the guy who went in after him without asking first should be tried for invasion of privacy!