Now Gestures Are Crimes

Just asking if someone is a police officer is considered a crime as well. These bureaucrats are beyond satire:

Simple body language can now send known prostitutes and their johns to jail in West Virginia's second largest city.

Under the new law, suspects can be arrested for beckoning passers-by with conversation, attempting to stop traffic by waving their arms, circling an area in a vehicle or trying to stop pedestrians. An arrest can also be made if a suspect asks if a potential prostitute or patron is a police officer.

What is the root of such idiocy? The "drug war" of course:

"It's not going to eradicate prostitution, because it has been with us since the existence of time,'' said Huntington Mayor David Felinton. "But where prostitution and the drug trade are so closely tied together, I think it will be another tool for us to use.''