Quote Originally Posted by ForresterModern View Post
I wish that was my problem. One out of three ain't bad I guess.

I got kilt checked at a large public gathering when I walked past a group of smart-alec inebriated twenty-somethings who were sitting on a low rock wall, and one woman reached out and lifted as I passed to get a good look. After slapping down her hand (artfully not spilling my own drink) I turn and scowled and told her that was sexual harrassment/assault, and asked her and her friends how it would be taken if I lifted the skirt of one of their women for a look. Just by coincidence a police officer on crowd control a few feet away witnessed the whole thing, and came to my "rescue" and ended up giving the whole group, and the kilt-checker in particular, a stern lecture about how if I wanted to press charges he would arrest her for sexual assault, which if convicted (highly likely since the cop witnessed the whole thing) would have put her on a sexual offenders public registry for the rest of her life. He held me there until he was finished talking to her/them, then frankly asked me whether I wanted to, no actually urged me to, file formal charges. After taking a moment I said no, and the poor girl apologized in front of her whole friend group before the cop and I walked away together. Once away he told me he had hoped I would have said yes just to teach them a lesson, as he was pretty sure the charge would have been dealt down by any prosecuting attorney to something non-sexual in nature as it was likely a first offense. Then he actually complimented me on the way I had handled the incident (I initially was ready to throw my drink in her face but held off), followed by another compliment on the kilted outfit and said he wished he had the guts to wear one himself. I wrote the Xmarks website on the back of my business card and gave it to him as a way to start looking into kilt wearing. Don't know if he ever looked or joined or got kilted, but if some Louisville officer out there recognizes this story speak up.

Kilt checks are generally considered cute and benign and playful by those who perform them, and often flattering to those who recieve them, but if they are an unwanted advance and violation of one's personal privacy they should be considered for what they are--sexual assault/harrassment. It is one thing to ask, another entirely to uninvited invade one's person.

I think next time, if I do have a drink in my hand, I will try to remember to dump it in the face of the offender, just for good measure. My response will be "Oooh, you startled me so much I spilled my drink. Wear it in health."
Why waste good alcohol on Morons. I wear a Retired police officers badge as a kilt pin and stop and ask people (women) "Would you really like to spend the weekend in Jail. If I scream loud enough, I'm sure there is a cop close." Then I ask what they would do if I asked what they were wearing under their skirt. Few have apologized and some have shown me anyway.