Voters in Switzerland Ban Nude Hiking Voters in Switzerland Ban Nude Hiking Posted on 04/26/2009 5:06:46 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA APPENZELL, Switzerland  Voters in the heart of the Swiss Alps on Sunday passed legislation banning nude hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region. By a show of hands citizens of the tiny state of Appenzell Inner Rhodes voted overwhelmingly at their traditional open-air annual assembly to impose a $176 fine on violators. Only a scattering of people on Sunday opposed the ban on the back-to-nature activity that took off last autumn when naked hikers  primarily Germans  started showing up in eastern Switzerland. (Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ... To: Slings and Arrows Damn.... 2 posted on 04/26/2009 5:07:25 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist") To: Red in Blue PA Oh, rats, this was on to do list.

3 posted on 04/26/2009 5:09:17 PM PDT by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Red in Blue PA The weather in the Switzerland mountains gets very cold. One would think that would keep men from hiking in the nude. 4 posted on 04/26/2009 5:09:50 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Being condemned for corruption by Mexico is like being lectured on morals by the adult film industry) To: Red in Blue PA So now there’s a sausage ban in Switzerland? 5 posted on 04/26/2009 5:10:21 PM PDT by Beaten Valve One would think that would keep men from hiking in the nude.

Not all of us {;^) 6 posted on 04/26/2009 5:11:49 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (I'd rather the world hate us then laugh at us) The Deutche schwimbas are where to be. 7 posted on 04/26/2009 5:11:50 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus To: Red in Blue PA 8 posted on 04/26/2009 5:11:52 PM PDT by GSP.FAN To: Red in Blue PA Please, NO pictures! To: Red in Blue PA Germans. From the beaches of St. Lucia and Koh Samui to the trails of Bryce Canyon and the Swiss Alps, they are always anxious to go nude. What is their major malfunction?

11 posted on 04/26/2009 5:13:34 PM PDT by angkor [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ] To: Clintonfatigued 13 posted on 04/26/2009 5:14:43 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (I'd rather the world hate us then laugh at us) To: Red in Blue PA Jaaa! Nothing like a good yodel in the nude in the Swiss Alps, I always say. linking earlier post.. To: al baby Hey, your is bigger than mine, lol 15 posted on 04/26/2009 5:15:44 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (I'd rather the world hate us then laugh at us) To: Red in Blue PA Those most likely to hike nude are least likely to look good while hiking nude.

16 posted on 04/26/2009 5:16:19 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (ESPN MNF: 3 Putzes talking about football on TV while I'm trying to watch a game.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies ] To: al baby All nudity stuff aside, I can’t imagine that carrying a backpack on a bare back is very comfortable, LOL. 18 posted on 04/26/2009 5:17:17 PM PDT by KJC1 Comment #19 Removed by Moderator To: Clintonfatigued I just hope they don't meet any girls might be embarassing. 20 posted on 04/26/2009 5:18:59 PM PDT by GSP.FAN Is that Bareback Mountain????

< /humor > 21 posted on 04/26/2009 5:19:33 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - Ronald Reagan) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ] To: Keith in Iowa Got that right. Ventured by mistake onto the nude beach at our resort in Jamaica once - all it took. I was pretty sure Moby Dick had beached “herself” and Moby was the only one on the beach. I think she was lying on a lounge chair but, gee, everything hung over the sides to the ground. We ran, not walked, from the nude beach. We didn’t even know it was the nude beach until we saw the sign while running away!

22 posted on 04/26/2009 5:22:39 PM PDT by RonInNaples last time i posted that i got a 24 hour vacation 23 posted on 04/26/2009 5:23:35 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ] To: Red in Blue PA I read this story this morning on twitter after going to look at an undeveloped 4 acre lot. I double dog dare these yahoos to try hiking in the buff up here in the north woods. 24 posted on 04/26/2009 5:24:51 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.) When it’s that cold out your yodel might shrivel to a whimper.

25 posted on 04/26/2009 5:24:54 PM PDT by seowulf (Petraeus, cross the Rubicon.) To: Red in Blue PA; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ... Re: Voters in Switzerland Ban Nude Hiking Barney Frank, Nancy, the 1st Squeeze and the Øbamanation ain't going to like this! It must be... a hate crime of some kind, ya know! 26 posted on 04/26/2009 5:25:13 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: RonInNaples It’s unfortunate that most people into the nude thing should not be seen without clothing. It’s the opposite of those who look fantastic are always clothed. Life just isn’t fair.

27 posted on 04/26/2009 5:30:58 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus To: Red in Blue PA just like everything else, the Germans screwed it up for everybody.... 28 posted on 04/26/2009 5:32:18 PM PDT by bpjam (Favorite Sign Today: "Why Do We Feel Like A Ship Off The Coast Of Somalia?") To: KoRn Trust me. As a general rule these are not people you ever would want to see naked. 41 posted on 04/26/2009 8:12:09 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (When you're spinning round, things come undone. Welcome to Earth 3rd rock from the Sun!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ] To: KoRn I take it the nude hikers were precisely the people that you would never want to see hiking in the nude.

42 posted on 04/26/2009 8:13:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes) To: alfa6 silly boys 43 posted on 04/26/2009 8:13:56 PM PDT by Samwise ("Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.") [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ] To: tflabo Ugghhhhhthe man toy retreats a bit when exposed to the cold air. Not exactly a sight to behold! Just sayin!

44 posted on 04/26/2009 8:17:07 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes) Alpine Swiss ban nude hiking Alpine Swiss ban nude hiking Alpine Swiss ban nude hiking Tuesday, 12 May 2009 14:22 Voters in the heart of the Swiss Alps on Sunday passed legislation banning naked hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region. By a show of hands citizens of the tiny canton (state) of Appenzell Inner Rhodes voted overwhelmingly at their traditional open-air annual assembly to impose a 200 Swiss franc ($176) fine on violators. Keyword: publicnudity Woo hoo!! And the first 26% is in!! Thank you all very much!! God bless. Keyword: publicnudity 12/14/2010 12:30:40 PM PST · by Wile E Coyote Genius · 37 replies ^ | Dec 14, 2010 | CBS WHITEFISH BAY, Wis.

(AP) ï¿½ A Wisconsin postal carrier says he simply wanted to cheer up a woman on his mail rounds who seemed ï¿½stressed out.ï¿½ But, upon further review, the postal worker says delivering the mail in the nude probably wasnï¿½t such a good idea. A police report says the 52-year-old man told the woman he would deliver the mail to her office in Whitefish Bay completely naked to make her laugh. He says the woman dared him to do it, so he took the dare Dec. 4 and brought the mail wearing only a smile. 12/08/2010 9:19:47 AM PST · by RetroSexual · 74 replies · 1+ views Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | Dec. 8, 2010 | Alexis Stephens A Kennesaw State University part-time instructor was arrested for allegedly exposing himself to students in a classroom. Raymond Devaughn Taylor, 57, is accused of taking off his clothes during a class he was teaching, according to an arrest warrant obtained by the AJC. The incident occurred on Nov.

30 between 4:35 and 4:45 p.m., the university police department states in the warrant. A student in the class reported the incident to school officials Friday, Arlethia Perry-Johnson, vice president of external affairs for the university, told the AJC. Eyeblast TV / The Blast ( Media Research Center) ^ | 12/2/2010 | Stephen Gutowski Why are young liberals so sex obsessed that they believe the only way to express their opinions is by striping down on video? Get a life people. Nobody wants to watch you take off your clothes in public and ramble on about whatever asinine political cause your infatuated with this week: They didnï¿½t even bother to try and connect their stupid little stunt with what theyï¿½re whining about. At least when these young liberals took their clothes off they made a weak attempt to pretend it was somehow connected to health insurance. And, at least, when these Germans ran around...

WBBH-TV ^ | 9/20/2010 | staff An investigation is under way after a naked Washington, D.C., firefighter was apparently caught on camera preparing food for a party in a firehouse. The photo was supplied by a source who says complaints have been made by female firefighters and paramedics who were there at the time. The D.C. Fire and EMS Department says there was a retirement celebration attended by off-duty firefighters at an engine company in July. The source claims the photo shows a naked firefighter at the stove and that as many as three firefighters may have prepared and served food at the party naked. The... The Miami New Times ^ | June 9, 2010 | Amanda McCorquodale If you're like us, the first impulse you had after seeing your first oil-soaked seagull was to rip off your clothes and hop on a bike. This Saturday, you can do just that in the company of strangers at the Miami World Naked Bike Ride to protest our nation's dependence on that gooey, wildlife-killing, black gold. OK, so the organizers put an asterisk next to the word nudity, encouraging imaginative costumes and well-placed body paint.

In other words, bare as much as you dare. World Naked Bike Ride is an international movement, practiced in cities like Vancouver, British Columbia and... The Hill ^ Nudists to lobby Capitol Hill this week By Jordan Fabian - 06/07/10 09:53 AM ET The nudist lobby is headed to Capitol Hill this week to discuss issues important to it with Congress. The American Association for Nude Recreation sent out a colorful press release Monday morning announcing the visit. While on Capitol Hill, the AANR will push back against "well-intentioned" Internet legislation it says could affect nudist websites and businesses. Here are some excerpts from the release. Kissimmee, FL (June 4, 2010) ï¿½ Nudists with the American Association for Nude Recreation say there may not be a nude beach... 05/15/2010 6:01:18 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 69 replies · 1,902+ views thedenverchannel.com ^ | May 14, 2010 | Wayne Harrison BOULDER, Colo.

-- A man who police said was naked except for a pair of woman's thong panties he was wearing on his head is the first person arrested under Boulder's new public nudity law. Police said that Glenn Ford, 55, was standing nude on an offramp of Highway 36 during the Thursday afternoon rush hour. Officers located him at the Baseline Road exit, according to a police blotter. South Florida Sun Sentinel ^ | May 7, 2010 | Ken Kaye It's the fear of many air travelers: Step into full-body scanning machines and Transportation Security Administration officers might get an eyeful of their private parts. That is apparently what has been happening on a regular basis ï¿½ at least during TSA training sessions ï¿½ and earlier this week it led one Miami International Airport transportation security officer to allegedly attack a co-worker with a baton. The co-worker had been making fun of the size of the officer's genitals, according to Miami-Dade police.

04/16/2010 10:54:08 AM PDT · by Willie Green · 120 replies · 3,445+ views metronews.ca ^ | April 16, 2010 NEW YORK - Some visitors to a new exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art are being asked to leave because they are touching nude performers. The performers featured in Marina Abramovic's new exhibition have complained of being pushed, prodded and poked by some patrons. The museum acknowledges that it has had problems with some visitors touching the live art. It is declining to talk about specific cases, but says visitors caught doing it are escorted out. The exhibition opened March 14 and presents a view of Abramovic's career over four decades. It includes nude performers standing in... Maine Sunday Telegraph ^ | April 4, 2009 | Edward D. Murphy About two dozen women took a walk down Congress Street topless Saturday, attracting a large crowd as they tried to preach that partial female nudity is not worthy of attracting a crowd.

The point of the march was that a topless woman out in public should attract no more attention than a man walking around without a shirt on, said Ty MacDowell, 20, of Westbrook, who organized Saturday's event and promoted it on Facebook. But as the event got under way in Longfellow Square, the marchers were soon outnumbered by scores of onlookers -- mostly young men eagerly snapping... 04/02/2010 12:58:04 PM PDT · by a fool in paradise · 34 replies · 1,667+ views LA Times ^ | April 2, 2010 | | Ann Powers Erykah Badu did a brave thing/made a shrewd marketing decision... What are your favorite moments in provocative pop flesh-baring? I'm not talking about simple titillation, but about nakedness risked to make a point... John & Yoko, "Two Virgins" album cover: The famous full-frontal shot of the Beatle and his life partner...

Carolee Schneemann, "Interior Scroll": ...1975 performance piece, in which the groundbreaking feminist body artist pulled a thin roll full of writing from, yes, her interior... Patti Smith, "Easter" album cover: A flimsy nightgown covers Smith's flesh in the Lynn Goldsmith photo on her 1978 album. But she exposes something... 03/30/2010 9:48:22 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 36 replies · 1,648+ views CNN ^ | March 29, 2010 | Alan Duke Times News ^ | 03/29/2010 | Rain Smith A Church Hill man has been charged with indecent exposure after allegedly running nude through a Kingsport grocery store, wearing only a rubber mask on his face. The man was arrested at a nearby Hardee's, where he reportedly asked employees for clothing before hiding in the bathroom. Police say the suspect admitted to the incident, citing, "he was bored and didn't have anything to do." A report from Kingsport police identifies the man as Daniel R.

Lee, 22, of 612 East Main Boulevard, apartment A, Church Hill. He allegedly walked into the IGA grocery store, 3006 North John B. Dennis... KHOU Channel 11 Houston ^ | March 23, 2010 | Courtney Zubowski / 11 News The competition to lease apartments is tough, and there are all kinds of incentives to get tenants... a River Oaks apartment complex is taking a different approach. Instead of giving you something, itï¿½s offering to let you take something off. The apartment complex is known as La Maison, and it's located in the 2700 block of Revere. Its French name isnï¿½t the only European thing about it... You see, on the La Maison sundeck, four stories high in the middle of Houston, clothing is optional. Itï¿½s the first of its kind in Houston. There were no takers Tuesday. For some,...

Feed Your ADHD ^ | 3/4/2010 | Snarky Basterd But that guy nearby wearing the Armani and taking a business call on his BlackBerry, now he looked suspicious so police hauled him in for questioning. The line above is a figment of my imagination; the headline is not. In fact, I think the guy or gal who wrote that headline should retire; they'll never write a better one. Ever. Here's the story: 03/01/2010 9:11:38 AM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 54 replies · 2,357+ views AP ^ | March 1, 2010 SYDNEYï¿½About 5,200 naked people embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House on Monday for a photo shoot by Spencer Tunick. Tunick, who is known for his nude group photos in public spaces, posed participants for more than an hour in a variety of positions. "It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa," Tunick said.

"So I was very happy that that last set up finally got done and everyone came together (in a) united, friendly kiss, a loving kiss in front of this great structure." San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 7/21/9 | Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Keep that towel handy. California parks officials can enforce a ban on nudity at any state beach, even in areas that have been informally designated as "clothing optional," a state appeals court says. The new policy will take effect immediately, although officers will decide whether to warn, cite or arrest violators, said Roy Stearns, spokesman for the state Parks and Recreation Department. "I'm pretty sure that we will try to tread lightly to get compliance at first," he said Monday, three days after the appellate court in Santa Ana published its ruling as a statewide precedent. "We're not in the... ^ LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (KABC) -- Southern California may be known for its sunny skies, but the city of Laguna Niguel's reputation for the past three decades has revolved around the moon. Actually thousands of moons.

Each year a crush of people line up along the railroad tracks in the city and bare their backsides to every Amtrak train that passes by. But now the sun may be setting on this mooning tradition. "Hopefully it will be a much smaller event this year," said Mayor Robert Ming, Laguna Niguel. Mayor Ming says last year the crowd numbered 10,000, a problem when... The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 10, 2009 | Sarah McBride The biggest event of the year in Laguna Niguel, Calif., is coming up on Saturday, but Mayor Robert Ming has a message for those planning to attend: Keep your pants on. For 30 years, the town has played host to an affair dubbed "Moon Over Amtrak." Crowds line Camino Capistrano, a road that runs along the railroad tracks, and pass the day dropping their trousers every time a train rolls by...

07/08/2009 9:28:23 AM PDT · by raybbr · 33 replies · 1,909+ views WTNH.com ^ | 08 Jul 2009 | N/A Stratford (AP) - A Connecticut man has been arrested after he allegedly showed up at a dental office naked. Police said 41-year-old Christopher Hoff of Stratford also was five days late for an appointment Monday when he went to Optimus Dental.SNIPOfficers went to his home, where Hoff told them he'd been sleeping all day. Police took Hoff to the dental office where the receptionist identified him. AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/1/09 | AP ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ï¿½ A cross-country US Airways flight was diverted to Albuquerque after a male passenger removed his clothing mid-flight. Dan Jiron, a spokesman for the Albuquerque airport, said 50-year-old Keith Wright of New York disrobed Tuesday while sitting in his seat in the back of the aircraft. He said Wright was unresponsive when a flight attendant asked him repeatedly to get dressed and refused to be covered with a blanket.

Jiron said law enforcement employees who were passengers on the plane helped subdue and handcuff Wright before the flight landed. The FBI said Wright is in federal custody on... 05/13/2009 7:55:47 PM PDT · by Maelstorm · 46 replies · 2,216+ views ^ | May 13, 2009 | The San Francisco Police Department says it will no longer tolerate lewd behavior ï¿½ including public sex acts and nudity ï¿½ at a July street fair sponsored by Folsom Street Events, the same group that puts on the annual Folsom Street Fair, a public celebration of sado-masochism. The event in question, the Up Your Alley Fair, is scheduled for Sunday, July 26, in San Francisco's South of Market District on Dore Alley between Folsom and Howard streets. Last yearï¿½s event resulted in multiple complaints to the Office of Citizen Complaints against patrol officers assigned to cover the event. Citizens complained...

AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/26/09 | Harry Rosenbaum - ap APPENZELL, Switzerland ï¿½ Voters in the heart of the Swiss Alps on Sunday passed legislation banning naked hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region. By a show of hands citizens of the tiny canton (state) of Appenzell Inner Rhodes voted overwhelmingly at their traditional open-air annual assembly to impose a 200 Swiss franc ($176) fine on violators. Only a scattering of people on Sunday opposed the ban on the back-to-nature activity that took off last autumn when naked hikers ï¿½ primarily Germans ï¿½ started showing up in eastern Switzerland. ap on San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 4/7/09 | AP LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. ï¿½ The Laguna Niguel City Council wants to eclipse the annual ritual of mooning Amtrak trains and encourage thousands of partiers to pull up their pants. The council voted Tuesday to ban consuming alcohol in public and urinating in public to crack down on the 30-year-old tradition.

City officials said the vote does not ban mooning but is meant to discourage rowdy behavior. -- "Most of the people who come aren't locals. Because of the Internet, it's gone worldwide," city spokeswoman Meg Waters said. "It's not a local family event. It's just gotten bigger and bigger." 03/17/2009 12:47:22 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 21 replies · 1,136+ views nytimes.com ^ | March 16, 2009 | JOHN TAGLIABUE APPENZELL, Switzerland ï¿½ The Swiss like their secrecy, particularly in banking. At other times, they are more open. Take hiking. In recent years, it has become fashionable for a growing number of Swiss and some foreigners to wander in the Alps clad in little more than hiking shoes and sun screen. Last summer, the number of nude hikers increased to such an extent that the hills often seemed alive with the sound of everything but the swish of trousers. In September, the police in this mountainous town detained a young hiker, whose friends will identify him only as Peter, wandering...

kctv5.com ^ | 8/13/2008 | Staff FORT HAYS, Kan. -- A professor at a Kansas university who dropped his pants and mooned a room full of students and teachers is under investigation after video of the incident was posted on YouTube, school officials said. Bill Shanahan, a professor at Fort Hays State University, was at a debate with the Fort Hays State debate team last March when the incident occurred. School officials said they believe things got out of control when the team got low scores from two of the judges. Shanahan is seen on the video jumping up and down, ranting and then mooning the... ^ BOSTON -- Park rangers who patrol the Cape Cod National Seashore around Provincetown and Truro are trying to come up with strategies to discourage increasingly common incidents of illegal public sex on area beaches. They say complaints about explicit, open public sex on the national park beaches have tripled in the past decade, with activity ranging from flashing to men's public orgies. The rangers have been trying to crack down by enforcing a federal misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, which prohibits obscene acts, the Cape Cod Times reported.

Seashore rangers issued 132 citations for public sex acts last year, compared... 03/17/2008 8:46:18 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 27 replies · 1,647+ views GayNZ.com ^ | March 17, 2008 Councillors in the Netherlands have agreed to allow gay sex in the public area of an Amsterdam park. Gay men having sex in the city's famous Vondelpark will be permitted as part of a set of new rules of conduct for the country's best-known park. "Why should we try to impose something that is actually impossible to impose, which also causes little bother for others and for a certain group actually means much pleasure?", said Paul van Grieken, an Alderman in the Oud-Zuid district of the city. The park's rose garden has become a well known spot for gay men... NIS News ^ | March 2008 AMSTERDAM, 08/03/08 - The police's National Diversity Expertise Centre (LECD) wants sex allowed in all public parks in the Netherlands.

The police institute has advised the cities to follow the example of Amsterdam, De Telegraaf newspaper reported Friday. In Amsterdam's Vondelpark, owners of dogs let off the leash can be fined, but sex will shortly be permitted. "Why should we try to maintain something that is actually impossible to maintain, which also causes little bother for others and for a certain group actually signifies much pleasure?" says Paul van Grieken, the responsible Alderman in the Oud-Zuid district of Amsterdam. Van... 08/30/2007 9:42:09 PM PDT · by freedomdefender · 145 replies · 3,019+ views Seattle Times ^ | August 30 07 | Idaho Stateman Many men who solicit sex in public places often are conflicted sexually and seek sex in those locations to maintain anonymity, psychiatric experts say. Dr. Fred Berlin, an associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, compared homosexual sex at public places with heterosexual men who go to secret parts of town to solicit prostitutes and to drug addicts who find dealers on street corners away from their neighborhoods. "This is not as complicated as people think," Berlin said.

"It is often a case of people with very strong sexual cravings that are difficult to resist, people... 08/29/2007 8:05:18 AM PDT · by bahblahbah · 56 replies · 1,673+ views LATimes ^ | August 29, 2007 | Nick Gillespie As we all look forward to more sputtering news conference antics from Sen. Larry Craig, here's hoping that the Idaho politician will eventually draw on traditional Republican principles and stand up for his right to engage in consensual sex in toilet stalls with men. Craig, a critic of the Patriot Act who weakened some of its worst provisions during last year's renewal vote, clearly understands the need to keep the government from snooping willy-nilly on its citizens. At first flush, the news that the 62-year-old senior senator from the Gem State pleaded guilty Aug. 8 to misdemeanor charges of disorderly... Fox News Orlando ^ | 7/11/07 | Fox News Orlando Titusville police say they have arrested Florida State Rep. Robert "Bob" Allen, of Merrit Island, on second degree misdemeanor charges for soliciation for prostiution.

Officers say they noticed Allen acting suspicious as he went in and out of the men's restroom 3 times. Minutes later, he solicited an undercover male officer inside the restroom, offering to perform oral sex for $20. Officers realized he was a public figure after the arrest. Allen, a Republican, represents District 32 of the State House of Representatives. 08/24/2007 10:17:50 PM PDT · by RightFighter · 145 replies · 4,609+ views 8-25-2007 | RightFighter I was walking through Wal-Mart this evening with my 9-year old son picking up some groceries. When we were all done, we went to the magazine section just prior to checking out. While I was standing there, I saw a young man of about 25-30 years old walking toward the register next to the magazines. Something struck me as odd, and I finally realized that it was his pants - they were down around his mid-thigh, so that his boxer shorts were fully exposed. The next thing I noticed, and I will forever rue the day that I saw this,...

New York Times ^ | August 24, 2007 | AP A month after passing a temporary ban on public nudity, the Brattleboro Selectboard voted 3 to 2 on Tuesday to reject a proposed ordinance that would have made the ban permanent. When the temporary ordinance expires next month, public nudity will no longer be illegal. It is all about tolerance, one board member said. "We in this country are going down a slippery slope these days," said Dora Bouboulis, nothing a national paper recently published an article about the ordinance under the headline "Tolerant town gets intolerant." 07/28/2007 8:35:56 AM PDT · by TornadoAlley3 · 80 replies · 3,432+ views wctrib.com ^ | 07/28/07 | Brittany Lawonn FARGO, N.D. - A Moorhead man scheduled to be married today was arrested early Friday morning for having sex in a public place while wearing a kilt, and with a woman other than his fiancï¿½e.

Nathan Ross Blair, 24, and Chandra Schaefer, 20, were arrested after police received two reports within 90 seconds about 3:15 a.m. that a man in a black kilt was exposing himself and then seen having sex with a woman on a car in the 1000 block of North University Drive, according to police dispatch logs. According to Cass County District Court documents: Police found Blair... Local6.com ^ | 7/12/2007 | Local6 Fla. State Representative Accused Of Soliciting Sex In Men's RoomPolice: Allen Offered To Perform Act For $20TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- Florida state Rep. Robert "Bob" Allen, R-Merritt Island, was arrested Wednesday and charged with soliciting an undercover male officer for sex at a park in Central Florida, according to police. Investigators said Allen was acting suspicious and went in and out of the men's restroom at Veteran's Memorial Park, located on East Broad Street. Minutes later, authorities said, Allen solicited the male officer inside the restroom, offering to perform oral sex for $20.Click here to find out more! Allen was then...

California Catholic Daily ^ | July 3, 2007 uly 8 has been designated ï¿½Pride Nightï¿½ at Petco Park, where San Diego ï¿½Gay Prideï¿½ supporters can attend the Padresï¿½ baseball game at a discounted price, be given group recognition on the signboard, and hear the Gay Men's Chorus sing the National Anthem. El Cajon-based Set Free Ministries, a 25-year-old ministry "dedicated to reaching out to the homeless, the addicted, the afflicted, the lost and the hopeless," has announced plans to protest the event by distributing fliers to families entering Petco Park spelling out their objection to so-called "gay pride." Pride Night coincides with a promotion where kids 14 and... WKMG TV NEWS ^ | 9-6-2006 Board Decides To Take No Action On Anti-Nudity OrdinanceBRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- Town officials in Brattleboro said the solution to what some see as the problem of people hanging around naked downtown may be just around the corner. It's called cold weather.

But the Select Board has decided to take no action for now on a proposed anti-nudity ordinance. That means that until temperatures turn nippy, those who object to nakedness downtown may just have to grin and bare it. Select Board Chairman Steve Steidle said when things heat up again next spring, the town may take another look at the... The Boston Globe ^ | 23 August 2006 | Brian MacQuarrie BRATTLEBORO -- Here on the banks of the Connecticut River, in the busiest parking area of a downtown peppered with bookstores and coffee shops, more is meeting the eye than some people want. A politely rebellious collection of teenagers passing time in the Harmony Parking Lot this summer has taken to disrobing. Seemingly on a whim, they shed clothes and soak up the sun, nude. What began as a lark or an ode to youthful exuberance has now turned into a municipal quandary, because public nudity is permissible in Brattleboro. In the words of Town Manager Jerry Remillard, if you're... Grand Forks Herald ^ | 4/12/06 | Mikey_1962 FARGO, N.D.

- Police here arrested a 34-year-old man after he jumped into the Red River and later stood naked on a bridge. Raymond Vern Jones, no permanent address, was cited for disorderly conduct, said Sgt. Joel Vettel. Jones was extremely intoxicated and said he was trying to retrieve a fishing lure, Vettel said. He removed his clothes after he climbed out of the river. "The river is so high and moving so fast, it could have been tragic pretty quick," Vettel said. Another man, Kevin Michael Swenson, 51, no permanent address, was arrested for public consumption of alcohol, police... MSNBC ^ | 1/5/06 | Mikey_1962 WASHINGTON - Acquitting a Germantown man who exposed his buttocks during an argument with a neighbor, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled yesterday that mooning, while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland. "If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," Judge John W. Debelius III said after the bench trial, reversing the ruling of a District Court judge.

Debelius made clear his disdain for the defendant, calling the alleged act "disgusting" and "demeaning." The outcome could have been different, he suggested, if the... The Associated Press. ^ | January 04, 2006 | The Associated Press. ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - It's considered disgusting in most quarters, but a Montgomery County (website - news) appellate judge has ruled that "mooning" someone isn't illegal. The defendant, 44-year-old Raymond McNealy of Germantown, was charged with indecent exposure after exposing part of his buttocks to his neighbor and her eight-year-old daughter following an argument. A lower court found McNealy guilty. He faced up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine, but he appealed. Circuit Court judge John Debelius ruled Tuesday that McNealy didn't commit a crime. He said if what McNealy did was indecent exposure, then "any woman...

01/04/2006 6:49:01 AM PST · by Cagey · 56 replies · 1,247+ views MSNBC ^ | 1-4-2006 | Ernesto Londoo WASHINGTON - Acquitting a Germantown man who exposed his buttocks during an argument with a neighbor, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled yesterday that mooning, while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland. "If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," Judge John W. Debelius III said after the bench trial, reversing the ruling of a District Court judge. Debelius made clear his disdain for the defendant, calling the alleged act "disgusting" and "demeaning." The outcome could have been different, he suggested, if the...

12/29/2005 6:39:57 PM PST · by CajunConservative · 61 replies · 2,853+ views Nola.com ^ | 12/29/2005, 6:04 p.m. | AP ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) ï¿½ State Rep. Tommy Wright agreed to resign his seat as part of a plea agreement reached Thursday involving charges Wright and another man were caught in a lewd act in a public bath room. Wright's resignation is effective Jan. 3, according to a statement from Rapides Parish District Attorney Jim Downs' Office. Wright was accused of two counts of obscenity in connection with an incident in December of last year, when a park ranger at Buhlow Lake said Wright and Charles Locker II, of Deville, were caught in a compromising position in a park bath room. 12/03/2005 3:26:36 PM PST · by Lorianne · 22 replies · 2,845+ views Hawaii Reporter ^ | 13 November 2005 | Dr. George R.

Harker Is it legal to be nude on a beach in Hawaii? A ruling by the Supreme Court of Hawaii suggest that indeed it just may be, or at the very least it is not, "indecent exposure" under the Hawaii Revised Statutes. On October 18, 1998, six men were arrested for being nude on Polo beach at Makaleha Beach Park. A beach popular on Oahu as a nude beach. All were charged and convicted of violating HRS 707-734 renamed Indecent exposure and redefined in 1993. HRS 707-734 Indecent exposure. (1) A person commits the offense of indecent exposure if, the person...

New York Times -- Sunday Art Section ^ | 11-6-05 | Never Yet Melted Performance artist Marina Abramovic really wanted to present, during a week of appearing at the New York Guggenheim Museum, her most radical work, called ï¿½Rhythm 0.ï¿½ Performed only once in Naples in 1974, its premise was terrifyingly simple: She agreed to stand in a gallery for six hours while anyone who came in could choose any of 72 objects around her - including knives, scissors, a needle, a loaded gun - and do anything they wanted to her with the objects. It was her only work in which she essentially ceded control over her body, and over the pain to...

11/03/2005 6:11:21 AM PST · by Sam's Army · 54 replies · 1,596+ views The Lakeland Ledger ^ | November 3, 2005 | Mary Toothman and Diane Lacey Allen Lakeland Inn Will Allow Nude Sunbathing By Mary Toothman and Diane Lacey Allen The Ledger LAKELAND -- A Lakeland man plans to open a bed and breakfast that will include a clothing-optional swimming area and provide a gay-friendly environment. The Swan Park Inn will be located at 118 E. Park St. in the South Lake Morton historic district. The house is now being restored by 54-year-old Charlie Boyd, who is on a leave of absence from his 30-year job as a psychologist for the Polk County school system. Asked if he is concerned about community reaction to his plans for... Norfolk Virginian-Pilot ^ | Aug. 24, 2005 | Unattributed PORTSMOUTH ï¿½ A man who lived near Park View Elementary School will spend 10 years behind bars for standing naked in his doorway while school buses rode past him.

Leroy Felton Jr. of the 1400 block of Leckie St. was arrested last year after the bus driver and parents bringing children to school called police. Felton, 38 , was convicted of three counts of indecent liberties, all felonies, in June , and on Monday in Circuit Court he was sentenced to 30 years, with 20 suspended, according to court records. He had pleaded not guilty. Assistant Commonwealthï¿½s Attorney Roxie O.... 08/15/2005 6:19:14 AM PDT · by cloud8 · 52 replies · 4,107+ views NY Daily News ^ | 8/15/05 | BY JIMMY VIELKIND and ROBERT F. MOORE Oglers surround protesters Topless women on skates, bikes and foot drew a surging crowd of grateful gawkers in Columbus Circle yesterday when they doffed their shirts to affirm the right to bare a lot more than arms.

The 10 or so women gathered and showed nearly all to protest the arrest of Jill (Phoenix) Feeley, who said she was taken into custody this month after going half naked on the lower East Side. But Feeley and friends soon found out that taking such a revealing stance in New York can be risky. "It got hot, then it got rainy," said...

Question: In April 2009 citizens of the Swiss canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes in the Alps voted overwhelmingly to pass legislation banning what?
Answer: Naked hiking