VICE tried to make a sympathy piece about how sex offenders can be trusted to live in society, but...
After a sex offender gets a sympathetic interview from VICE, he showed his thanks by sending the producer a dick pic.
I had to share this. You make up your own mind about it.
“Like, we all out here in this world, and we all gotta make it happen and ain’t nothing stopping me so like, I’m very hopeful and confident.” Female voiceover: “After this interview, Asheef sent a picture of his penis to our producer.”
“It was part of his complexity.”
Here’s how it probably went down:
"DUDE?! WHAT THE FUCK? WHY'D YOU SEND ME THAT"
"Can you calm down? This is just part of my complexities and doesn't define who I am as a person. Also, I sent it by mistake..."
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Clayton is the founder and publisher of the social and political commentary newsletter Think Things Through and the host of the Think Things Through Podcast.
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