"Mr. Bagnes' conduct is certainly unusual, strange, creepy, weird. It is a lot of things; it is uncomfortable. But what it is not  it is not criminal," Hamilton told The Tribune late Friday. "We live in a society where we have rights and we have an absolute, unequivocal protection of these rights: We have the right to be weird. We have the right to be strange. We have the right to make people uncomfortable. Those rights end where criminal conduct begins."