Wisconsin Man, 20, Waits Outside Terre Haute, IN Middle School to Propose to Eighth Grade Girl

There is so much wrong with this story, it's hard to know where to start!

Basically, falling in love with someone over the Internet is NOT that uncommon today.

Driving cross country to where your "true love" lives to ask her to marry you? Not quite so common, and sounds like something from a bad movie, but not that bad.

Waiting outside the middle school while your 14-year-old, eighth grade girl friend is in class? Yeah, that'll get you arrested.

That's what happened outside Otter Creek Middle School in Terre Haute, Indiana this week when Alex Edwards, 20, traveled there from his home in Wisconsin. According to cops, the father of the girl suspected something was amiss and tipped them off that Edwards might be at the school. Officers allegedly found him outside of Otter Creek, sitting under a tree with a diamond ring and detained him while the questioned the girl inside. She confessed that the two had sex back in August, but that she had recently tried to break up with Edwards . . . which is why he made his bold move.

Our favorite part of this story? Edwards allegedly told reporters before his court hearing Tuesday he believed the relationship "was the same as like a 26-year-old and a 20-year-old." Unfortunately, the State of Indiana disagrees with that analysis and, instead, insists it that considers a 14- or 15-year-old incapable of giving “consent” even though they may participate willingly in the act.

Mr. Edwards was arrested for sexual misconduct with a minor, a class-C felony. (TribStar)