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Sleepwalker mows lawn naked

greets

Sleepwalker mows lawn naked

A sleep-walking computer expert was caught by his wife mowing the lawn naked at 2am.

Rebekah Armstrong told The Sun she was woken by a noise coming from the garden.

When she realised husband Ian was not in bed she went downstairs to see what was happening.

Rebekah said: "Ian was mowing the lawn completely starkers. I dread to think how long he'd been there but he'd nearly finished.

"I was going to wake him but I have always been told it can be dangerous to disturb someone who is sleepwalking.

"In the end I just unplugged the mower, went back to bed and let him get on with it."

Ian, 34, later got back into bed and didn't believe Rebekah when she told him what he'd been up to.

Rebekah added: "It wasn't until I told him to look at the soles of his feet that he finally believed me - they were filthy."
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1327470.html

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Run with the nudes at Pamplona

March 23 2005 at 07:43AM

Madrid - The "running of the bulls" in Pamplona could get some serious competition this year - from a rival run by naked humans protesting against cruelty to animals.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) is asking the town authorities to replace the bull chase with its "Running of the Nudes".

The nine-day San Fermin festival from July 6 draws hundreds of Spaniards and tourists who try to outpace the bulls as they run through the town's narrow streets.

In 2004 Peta unleashed several protesters wearing nothing but fake horns and sandals on the streets of Pamplona.

A spokesperson for Pamplona mayor Yolanda Barcina Angulo would not comment on Peta's plans for this year, but said: "As far as we know the bull-running will go ahead as usual.

"People are free to express their opinion. But the criticism comes only from Britons and Americans, not Spaniards." - Sapa-AFP
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Just be careful you don't get the horn :shock:
 
:D Yet another example of why I love sport so: the drama, the human interest angle...the naked men

Last Updated: Tuesday, 29 March, 2005, 08:51 GMT 09:51 UK

New balls, please!

Ivan sees something terrible

Tennis star Ivan Ljubicic got more than he bargained for when he opened his locker - and found a naked rival inside.

The Croat's suspicions had become aroused when he went to get changed for his third-round match at the Nasdaq-100 Open and saw his clothes strewn across the dressing room floor.

But nothing prepared him for the shock of finding Frenchman Michael Llodra crouched inside the tiny wardrobe, with not so much as a strategically-placed tennis ball to hide his dignity.

Ljubicic, who recovered to beat Vincent Spadea, said: "I saw the door slightly open, so I went to open it and then, shock, complete shock - there was Michael Llodra, naked in my locker!

"He was looking at me, I was looking at him. I said, 'What the hell are you doing here?'

"He said: 'I'm trying to focus for my match'.

"I said: 'It's 10 to 10 - you're playing at 10 o'clock!'

"He replied: 'I'm trying to get positive energy from you. You're winning a lot of matches this year'."

And, it seems, there was method in his madness, with Llodra going on to win his doubles match with partner Arnaud Clement.

How the 6ft 3in player managed to squeeze into the locker is another matter altogether.

"The locker, it's not a big locker, it's a small locker. It's not easy to get in that locker, I'm telling you," said Ljubicic.

"He is not a small guy but very flexible. Very, very flexible."

Ljubicic now faces Spain's Rafael Nadal in the fourth round of the Miami tournament and will be more than a little nervous when he enters the dressing room.

"When I open my locker, I'll be opening it really slowly," he said. "After this I don't know what I'm going to find in there."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_o ... 389625.stm
 
Ind. Business Told to Hide Nude Statues

greets

Ind. Business Told to Hide Nude Statues

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

(03-30) 13:50 PST Edinburgh, Ind. (AP) --

The Venus de Milo had better wear a top and Michelangelo's David should put on some pants if they're going to be seen at a yard art business.

Bartholomew County officials told the business near Interstate 65 that it must move cement copies of the classical statues — and about 10 others — out of public view because they are obscene under Indiana law.

"It's not fair to point out our business, and personally, I don't find them offensive," Ginger Streeval, a co-owner of White River Truck Repair and Yard Art, told the Daily Journal of Franklin for a story Wednesday.

Frank Butler, the county's zoning inspector, disagreed.

"They have nudity ... and that should not be in the view of a minor," he said.

Indiana's obscenity law prohibits the display of nudity where children might see it, he said.

The law also stipulates that such material is harmful for minors if, "considered as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors."

The sheriff's department and zoning officials cracked down on the business about 25 miles south of Indianapolis after receiving two complaints about the statues.

But Ken Falk, legal director for the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, said nudity has been part of art for hundreds of years and that using nudity to define obscenity could raise serious constitutional questions.

"Just because something is nude doesn't mean it's obscene," he said. "If that were the case, most Renaissance art would have to be put into back rooms or hidden."
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/30/national/a135035S55.DTL

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Students' naked performance causes outrage

greets

Students' naked performance causes outrage

University students in China have been defending their decision to strip off for a naked art performance.

The students' naked art performance

A total of 41 university students, both male and female, took part in the display at a golf course in Chengdu city.

According to Chongqing Morning Post, the performance art, named @41, is completed by 41 young students standing nakedly in the shape of "@", then falling down like dominos.

But the performance of the students - from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music and Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts - has caused a huge debate in China.

The organiser and director of the performance, known only as Zhang, commented on the college's website: "As the dominant power for the future world, youth is responsibility; youth is power!"

Another participant, Mr Li, also defends their art form: "It's a breakthrough. Not only to my art creation, but to our social ethics."

Many people however are opposed to their work and have been speaking out on various news websites in China. One such comment reads: "It's a seduction to youth. The organisers should be severely punished, since they do this porn stuff under the label of art".

Another disgruntled member of the public remarks: "If naked is art, then taking a shower in the bathroom is much better. Psychos!"
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1366477.html

mal
 
From Ananova:-

A top model brought a Sydney street to a standstill when she had a bubble bath in a shop window.



Megan Gale was at David Jones in Sydney to promote her new range of beauty products.

Crowds of shoppers and office workers - most of them male - flocked to the store window after curtains parted to reveal her in a white tub.



Maids poured bath products into the tub before Gale, temporarily screened, emerged from the water and donned a bathrobe.

"There was so many people, I was really quite shocked," she later admitted.

The 29-year-old, born in Perth but who now lives in Italy, has been the face of David Jones for a number of years.

She will this year be seen in her first Hollywood film when she makes a cameo in Stealth, an action film shot in Sydney last year starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Jamie Foxx.


Source & a couple of mundane photoes here:-

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1373897.html
 
Naked Couple To Walk Length Of UK

June 17, 2005, 6:00:23
Bizarre News

Thats bizarre: Nudist's rambling quest

A nudist who braved jail to walk the length of Britain wearing nothing but his boots has set out to repeat his naked journey - this time joined by his girlfriend.

Stephen Gough, dubbed the 'Naked Rambler' and Melanie Roberts, 33, will strip off and set out from Land's End at the southeastern tip of England, on an 874-mile nude trek to John O'Groats in Scotland.

Gough said: "Why do it with no clothes on? To celebrate the fact that I'm a human being and that there is nothing shameful in being a human being. There's nothing wrong with a naked body."

During Gough's first naked walk across Britain in 2003, he was arrested 14 times for breach of the peace - on one occasion for being a traffic hazard - and spent five months in jail in Inverness, Scotland.

Gough said: "There are no laws in this country saying you can't walk naked.

All it says is that if you are naked and you have intent to harm, that's a crime.

"I have no intent to harm. I'm just going to walk from Land's End to John O'Groats."
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www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/62952004.htm
 
Emperor said:
Naked Couple To Walk Length Of UK

Gough said: "There are no laws in this country saying you can't walk naked.

All it says is that if you are naked and you have intent to harm, that's a crime.

"I have no intent to harm. I'm just going to walk from Land's End to John O'Groats."
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It made me think of this local report from the Biggleswade Chronicle:-

Dog walker's flasher warning
Man exposed himself in Sandy

A woman who saw a naked man while out walking her dog is warning other people to beware.

The incident happened at 7.15pm on Tuesday, June 14 when Kerry Cunningham, 36, was taking her dog for a walk in the Sand Hills, Sandy, and turned round to find a man standing naked save for a cream baseball cap.

She described the man as being between 5ft 7ins and 5ft 8ins tall, about 40 years old, chubby, with thick legs and a pale pasty body.

As soon as the man saw her he picked up his clothes and dived behind a hedge.

Anyone who has experienced a similar incident should call Beds Police on 01234 841212.

Source:- http://www.biggleswadetoday.co.uk/ViewA ... ID=1057652

Sadly, reading between the lines the nude gentleman was probably less a flasher than a nude sunbather. A stupid place to sunbathe in the nude I know, but I do feel sorry for both of them!!!!! :(
 
David said:
Sadly, reading between the lines the nude gentleman was probably less a flasher than a nude sunbather. A stupid place to sunbathe in the nude I know, but I do feel sorry for both of them!!!!! :(
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I don't feel sorry for the idiot who thought he was flashing. Didn't the fact he ran off like a shot when he was seen kind of hint to her that maybe, just maybe, he didn't want her to see him? I don't know what the hell he was doing naked in a public place but whatever it was it certainly doesn't sound like it was any of the woman's business.
 
The mystery streaker of Tib Street

Nicola Dowling

BARE CHEEK: but who is she? (Pic: Chris Gleave)
SHE'S shown everyone a clean pair of heels - and a lot more besides.

A woman wearing nothing but a pair of trainers and a scorpion tattoo has run down Tib Street in Manchester city Centre at the same time for the last three Fridays.

Word has spread fast and her audience has grown, with many onlookers waiting with their cameras poised.

Mark Radcliffe, 35, who works in a shop in Tib Street said: "I've seen her a few times now.

"News of what she had been doing got around. A crowd of about 50 people were waiting to see her last Friday with their camera phones ready to get a picture.

"A lot of workmen showed up because they are building some flats nearby. No-one knows who she is or why she is doing it and they're too stunned to watch where she goes afterwards.

"I even saw someone following her in a car trying to get a picture of her on the camera phone.

"It's all very light-hearted with people laughing and joking," he said.

"People seem pleased to see her, I don't think anyone is offended. Tib Street must be the place to be. I'd like to see a lot more of it myself!"

Another shopworker, who did not want to be named, said: "This has happened quite a few times now.

" She's run up the street once and then down the street twice.

" I don't know if she goes anywhere else other than Tib Street."

One spectator added: "I don't suppose she's doing any harm. I wonder whether she's doing it for a bet."

Greater Manchester Police said they hadn't received any complaints about the streaker.

* Do you know the streaker of Tib Street? Contact the M.E.N. newsdesk on 0161 832 7200, or email us at [email protected].
 
Stripping off in the name of art
By Yve Ngoo
BBC Newcastle

BBC News' Yve Ngoo revealed her naked ambition when she joined 1,700 men and women stripping off for Spencer Tunick's first large-scale UK art installation in Tyneside.
Being a "crazy media type", it's readily accepted that I'd do anything in the name of art.

When I announced I was going to take part in this culturally historic event, reactions ranged from "are you mad?" to "you pervert".

Even my mother feared I could suffer some sort of post traumatic stress disorder - and be blighted by flashbacks for the rest of my life.

But all I wanted to do was experience what thousands of people across the world had previously done - take part in a Spencer Tunick installation.

Personal experience

In the past five years, the sheer enormity of Newcastle Gateshead's cultural regeneration has left many gasping for breath and others grasping at straws.

So when New York-based contemporary artist Spencer Tunick invited thousands of volunteers to become part of his latest art work, taking place on Newcastle Gateshead Quayside, he promised every participant a very personal experience.

Inviting the hoi polloi to take part in civic art is also canny way of investing in people, instilling ownership, civic pride and courting cultural awareness.

What I had signed myself up for didn't really hit home until I received the lengthy email containing my consent form, which included the demands for sobriety and the banning of socks, hats and sunglasses.

Once undressed you had to leave your clothes, possessions and dignity in an unidentifiable plastic carrier bag in the middle of a car park.

Apprehension

I decided to make a pact and enjoy the Tunick experience with a couple of friends.

At 3.30am on Sunday, people were arriving from every direction, in cars, camper vans, on bikes and on foot. Before long the large car park was filled with around 1,500 people, aged from 18 to more than 80.

There wasn't time to be nervous, registration was swift - hand over your consent form in exchange for a plastic bag.

After maybe 30 minutes, Spencer Tunick and his crew welcomed us, addressing the crowds via megaphone, whilst perched precariously on a step-ladder.

Spencer explained the "set ups". These would involve walking three abreast (if you can have three breasts) across the magnificent Millennium Bridge, along the Newcastle Quayside, up historic Dean Street across the Swing Bridge, along the side of the Sage Gateshead to return to the car park.

Getting naked

At advantageous points that would take in the exciting and the fantastic surroundings of regenerated Quays, we would be asked to stop and pose.

You could sense tension, excitement and apprehension in the air. There was also a final rush for the loos.

Finally, Spencer, spoke the words we all waited for: "OK, you can get naked now".

Everyone started stripping, very rapidly, as if it were a race - men were particularly quick at disrobing.

I took off my sweat top and jogging bottoms. I was naked.

Other naked people were appearing everywhere, some balancing on one leg trying to remove socks and shoes without bending over. I didn't look at either of my friends.

In less than two minutes, only naked bodies were visible. People started looking at each other, friends and strangers, seeing their bodies totally uncovered in the diffused early morning light, in a Gateshead car park!

Dunkirk spirit

Then people began to whoop and cheer, laughing and talking like nothing had happened. Tunick had to call for quiet.

To be surrounded by hundreds of naked people is an awesome, overwhelming sight. So many different shapes and sizes, in varying hues, blending into a uniform mass.

Then we all started walking towards the bridge. The only people clothed were Spencer, his crew, security and the police.

When you're surrounded by total nudity in all its diversity, inhibitions gradually become less.

We dutifully fell into rank - full of the Dunkirk Spirit, we marched triumphantly from Gateshead to Newcastle across the magnificent Millennium Bridge to embark on cultural expedition that would affect each and every one of us.

Three hours later, and it was a bit sad to dress again, People dressed slowly - some holding onto their precious naked moment as long as legally possible.

It was just after 7.30 am, and Newcastle Gateshead was beginning to wake up to lazy sunny Sunday morning.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 692979.stm
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Lots of nude photies here - but distant, rear views!

The interesting thing is the skin colours. I'm not talking race here, but sunburn or the total opposite! There are also one or two tattoos on display.
 
As my grandmother said you just can't beat a good naked rampage:

Posted on Tue, Jul. 19, 2005

Bizarre rush-hour incident leaves three injured

By Frederick Cusick

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

A man who had apparently decided to get naked in Center City and then ended up scuffling with a police lieutenant was shot and critically wounded today in a bizarre incident that tied up traffic on Market Street for hours during this evening's rush hour.

Police said the chain of events began about 4:45 p.m., when the unidentified man took off his clothes across the street from the main Strawbridge's store at Ninth and Market Streets.

The details of the incident were still being sorted out today, but police said the naked man climbed into the police cruiser, and both men then struggled inside the vehicle for the policeman's gun. Several shots were fired, striking the naked man.

During the struggle, the police cruiser continued to move east on Market, striking and severely damaging a blue Chevrolet Cavalier driven by a woman, police said.

The cruiser continued along Market, ending up with its nose under the side of an NJ Transit bus parked in front of Strawbridge's, police said.

The incident snarled Center City traffic during the rush hour. Police shut down Market Street between Eighth and 10th Streets.

The naked man was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where he was reported in critical condition.

The police lieutenant and the driver of the other car were taken to Hahnemann University Hospital. The lieutenant was said to be suffering from abrasions. The condition of the woman was not known. Their names were not released.

Joseph Coston, 49, of South Philadelphia, said he was on the sidewalk when he heard the shot and saw the police cruiser come east down the street. It looked to him as though no one was behind the wheel, Coston said.

After the cruiser struck the NJ Transit bus, the passenger-side door popped open and the naked man fell out with a gaping wound in his chest, Coston said.

Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson, who arrived at the scene a few minutes after the incident, said that, as far as he could tell, the police lieutenant, who is assigned to the Fourth Police District, acted properly.

The clothes the man abandoned - blue jeans, brown boots, but no underwear, shirt or socks - remained piled up on the sidewalk across from Strawbridge's today, waiting for detectives to examine them.
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www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/12173212.html
 
From Friday's Daily Telegraph:-

Nudist beach police to go undercover

Police officers are to mingle with bathers on a nudist beach to catch perverts.

They want to prevent naturists from being approached for exhibitionist sex, known as "dogging".

The officers will wear swimming costumes in the undercover operation on Studland Beach, Dorset.

Chief Insp Nick Maton said: "There have been concerns about the activities of several predatory males on the beach. One naturist couple using the beach wrote in the sand in front of them 'No Pervs' so they would not be approached.

"Studland Nudist Beach has its own community and it is getting to the stage where people aren't taking their children there because of what has been happening."

Last summer, 16 people were arrested for outraging public decency at the beach.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... nude22.xml
 
I suppose the cops have to wear trunks, or their policemen's helmets might give them away! :shock:
 
I was going to write a gag about them having no place to hide their truncheons but thought better of it. :hmm:
 
rynner said:
I suppose the cops have to wear trunks, or their policemen's helmets might give them away! :shock:
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A couple of letters in todays Telegraph have similar thoughts:-


Sir - Undercover police officers in bathing costumes to patrol Studland's nudist beach (News, July 22): anyone spot the fatal flaw in this cunning plan?

Roger J. Andrews, Blandford Forum, Dorset

Sir - Wearing trunks on a nudist beach is hardly undercover. But leaving the trunks behind will leave the police equally exposed as non-naturists - unless they use bottled tan to cover the white bits. To attract the perverts, I suggest they also dangle their whistles and arm themselves with truncheons and handcuffs.

Chris Thomas, Horley, Surrey

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Naked truth about farming

By Dawn Cuthbertson
Local News - Friday, July 29, 2005 @ 07:00

Farmer Don Williams openly admits he’s not exactly a prime candidate for a hot body contest or modelling contract.

Williams, 42, had never been self-conscious about his “few” extra pounds.

That is, until he was asked to pose nude in a new calendar featuring farmers of Prince Edward County.

“It’s not like I’m Mr. Muscle Man,” Williams said. “Those of us in the farming community tend to be a little shy in that department.”

Williams said he was hesitant to show off his birthday suit – and farmer’s tan – at first. He relented when organizers assured him proceeds from the calendar would go towards promoting the region’s agriculture industry.

“One of our biggest jobs as farmers anymore is educating the public,” he said. “It’s really amazing how many don’t have a flying clue about the production of their food.”

The Faces of our Farmers calendar was spearheaded by Janice Hickey, a Toronto native who bought a hobby farm in the county in 1981 after falling in love with its charm.

All profits will be sent to the Prince Edward County Ontario Federation of Agriculture to create bursaries for students working towards a career in the industry.

Farmers have faced hardships for more than two years since the first case of mad cow disease was linked to an Alberta farm, and it’s about time the public understood their challenges, Hickey said.

Hickey hoped that showing a little skin might turn some heads, not just to the farmers, but to important issues facing the agricultural industry.


“I think there’s a lot of city folks who take our food source for granted,” she said.

Fourteen farms, from dairy cow to organic vegetable to maple syrup, are represented in the 2006 calendar.

September features the county’s first winery, Waupoos Estates, with its employees posing behind a row of grape vines.

“We have a baby that’s seven weeks old and we have men in their 80s,” Hickey said.

Sales of the first 1,000 calendars brought in $10,000, surpassing Hickey’s expectations.

She’s hoping to double that number and has called the printer to place a second order.

The calendar’s original concept, now oft copied, came from the British movie Calendar Girls, based on a true story about a group of otherwise proper women who take it all off for cancer awareness.

Hickey said she decided to introduce the fundraising idea to the farmers of Prince Edward County while on a trip to Cornwall, England, after spotting a calendar showcasing naked fishermen in a shop.

“I picked it up and just started laughing,” she said. “I loved the concept of these fishermen in their own environment. I bought it.”

“We made it comical, a little tongue in cheek and there has been a warm response,” she said. “We’ve sold copies to people who don’t know a soul in it.”

The tasteful cover photo features Don Williams’s 68-year-old father, Bob, his 16-year-old son, Justin, and family friend Tom Foster strategically placed behind a red antique tractor at their 400-acre farm near Bloomfield.

“I was shocked that dad did it because he’s conservative,” Williams said. “Basically we have our shirts off and the rest of it, well, you can use your imagination.”

Some farmers took more convincing than others to participate, Hickey said.

Lyle Hagerman of Hagerman Farms in Picton wasn’t one of them.

The spry 77-year-old is the August pinup boy, hiding behind onions, a bucket of gourds and five corn ears alongside five generations of family members and friends.

“There was no hesitation,” he said. “It was lots of fun but I didn’t think it would ever take off the way it has.”

Mr. March, Clifford Foster, 74, said the $15 calendars have been fierce competition to his sweet maple syrup since he started bringing them to the Belle-ville Farmers’ Market.

“It was a fun thing to do and if it’s helping a young lad that would like to have a career in agriculture, I think it’s beneficial,” Foster said. “With the high cost of education, they need all the help they can get.”

Williams said his brief career as an exhibitionist has earned him celebrity status around town.

“We went to the movies the other night and I don’t know how many people stopped me to comment on it,” he said, laughing. “It’s not a pretty picture but the tractor in front of me looks nice.”

The photo shoot was a nice distraction during an otherwise difficult year on the dairy, pork, cash crop and Christmas tree farm, Williams said.

With money already tight, Williams was dealt another significant blow when his youngest daughter, Brittany, was diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma.

“The community rallied around us,” he said. “If [you’re] hitting rock bottom, they pick you up.”

That’s why Williams says he’s thrilled bursaries will be created for students who want to join the farming lifestyle.

“Our future is with our kids and getting them involved is extremely important,” he said.

Many farmers, especially in the beef industry, are starting to discourage their children from following in their footsteps, Williams said.

Hagerman said he’s worried about that trend.

“Without people who grow food, you’re going to be awful hungry,” the Picton farmer said.

Williams said his son is showing interest in taking over the family farm one day and his two daughters are involved with 4-H.

He lauded Hickey for her determination in making the calendar a success.

“She’s like a pistol,” Williams said. “When she gets something in her teeth, she runs with it.”
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Interesting how this "nude calendar for charity" idea has really taken off. This is the first one I've heard of using men, but there was another project involving prominent local women not too long ago, and the women's rugby team did one as well.
 
Vienna gallery admits visitors to see erotic art for free if they disrobe

William J. Kole
Canadian Press

Friday, July 29, 2005

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Vienna's prestigious Leopold Museum is usually a pretty buttoned-down place, but on Friday, some of the nudes in its marble galleries were for real. Scores of naked or scantily clad people wandered the museum, lured by an offer of free entry to The Naked Truth, a new exhibition of early 1900s erotic art, if they showed up wearing just a swimsuit - or nothing at all.

With a midsummer heat wave sweeping much of Europe, pushing temperatures into the mid-30s in Vienna, the normally staid museum decided that making the most of its cool, climate-controlled space would be just the ticket to spur interest in the show.

"We find a naked body every bit as beautiful as a clothed one," said Elisabeth Leopold, who founded the museum with her husband, Rudolf. "If they came only out of lust, we have to accept that. We stand for the truth."

Peter Weinhaeupl, the Leopold's commercial director, said the goal was twofold - help people beat the heat while creating a mini-scandal reminiscent of the way the artworks by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and others shocked the public when they first were unveiled a century ago.

"We wanted to give people a chance to cool off, and bring nakedness into the open," he said. "It's a bit of an experiment. Egon Schiele was a young and wild person in his day. He'd want to be here."

Most of those who showed up in little or no attire Friday opted for swimsuits, but a few hardy souls dared to bare more. Among them was Bettina Huth of Stuttgart, Germany, who roamed the exhibition wearing only sandals and a black bikini bottom.

Although she used a program at one point to shield herself from a phalanx of TV cameras, Huth, 52, said she didn't understand what all the fuss was about.

"I go into the steam bath every week, so I'm used to being naked," she said. "I think there's a double morality, especially in America. We lived in California for two years, and I found it strange that my children had to cover themselves up at the beach when they were only three or four years old. That's ridiculous."

For years, the Austrian capital has been known for a small but lively nudist colony on the Donauinsel, an island in the middle of the Danube River where people disrobe, often startling the unsuspecting joggers, cyclists and rollerbladers who happen upon them.

Overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Austria has always been somewhat more conservative than many other European countries. The Viennese were scandalized when native art nouveau masters like Klimt - best known for his sensuous The Kiss and the subject of an upcoming film starring John Malkovich - began producing works that some critics panned as "indecency," "artistic self-pollution" and borderline pornography.

The 180 works on display at the Leopold through Aug. 22 include Klimt's Nude Veritas, an 1899 painting of a naked young woman with wildflowers in her hair, and Schiele's Two Female Friends, a 1915 rendition of two nude women entangled in each other's arms.

Max Hollein, director of Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle art museum, likened the public uproar at the time to "the visible outcry at the live transmission from last year's Super Bowl when, for a few seconds, CBS broadcast shots of the singer Janet Jackson's exposed nipple."

Mario Vorhemes, a 20-year-old Vienna resident who strode into the Leopold on Friday wearing nothing but a green and black Speedo, was nonchalant.

"What's the big deal?" he asked. "We're born naked into this world. Why can't we walk around in it without clothes from time to time?"

Elina Ranta, a fully clothed tourist from Finland who checked out the art - and the audience - left amused.

"I thought, 'This is strange. How is this possible in a museum?"' Ranta said. "We've been in many galleries and I've never seen people walking around like this."

"In English, my name means 'beach,"' she added. "That's pretty funny under these circumstances, isn't it?"
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*brrrr*

Strip torn off clothing store

By Brett Popplewell

Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 07:00

Local News - A publicity stunt that attracted a lot of skin to Lululemon Athleticas grand opening is now attracting a lot of controversy.

"We all thought that bras were allowed", said Jacqui Stone, 18. "In the morning when they informed us that we weren't allowed to have bras we were shocked. We had camped out for 20 hours, we were chilled to the bone and we didn't really know or understand what was going to happen. We weren't thinking really straight about it."

They were attracted by an advertisement that read: Grin and bare it! Dressed free from head to toe. One condition The first thirty people wearing ONLY their undies will receive a free lululemon athletica top and bottom. Creativity is a bonus so dress in your best unmentionables!!

The event drew more than 100 women and men willing to strip down to receive two free items of clothing. Twenty-six women and four men tore down to their underpants and funnelled into the store bare-breasted when the doors opened.

Stone said she was surprised when Lululemon staff informed those waiting, only 40 minutes before the event, that they were expected to expose their breasts.

Elayne Vlahaki, 18, was one of the first 10 semi-nude customers into the store. She said she read the flyer to mean that undies meant both bottoms and tops.

Store manager Kathy Krul recognizes the ad was a little vague, but insists the store wasnt trying to dupe anyone.

"It was not a ploy to trick people whatsoever. I guess we could have been a little bit more specific to say no bras, but we meant underwear as in bottoms", she said.

Ariel Forsberg, 19, was one of the few men who took part. He says the store should have explained the rules to those outside well in advance.

"I know if I was a girl and Id just spent 20 hours out in the cold and was just being informed that my top was going to have to be removed in order for those 20 hours to be worth anything, I would have done it from the pressure", he said.

Ken Wong, a marketing professor at Queen's University, said based on the ad he would believe bras would be permissible. On second glance, he said there wasn't any way to really know what the company meant.

"I will go on the record as saying that when you start adding specifications to the game 40 minutes beforehand you move it away from being a fun promotion that hopefully doesnt harm anybody, to becoming something that I think is exploitative", said Wong.

Krul said those who took part in the event need to admit they knew what they were doing.

"It was a matter of choice, and if they did not want to participate they did not have to", she said. "I don't feel that there was pressure to do anything that they didnt want to do."

Both teens are also upset about the photographs that were taken. Krul insists none will be used as advertising material, but the women would have preferred not having them taken at all.

"If none of the naked photos were going to be used then why did they have to be taken in the first place?" asked Vlahaki, wondering why they were asked to take their hands off their breasts for a clear photograph.

Krul points out that during the event there seemed to be nothing but smiles.

"I didn't hear anything negative from anyone when they left with their free outfit.

They all seemed very excited and thankful", said Krul.
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NB it is legal for women to be topless in public in Ontario so there were no laws being broken on that score.

Edited to add link: http://tinyurl.com/d32rx
 
The workout
Peta Bee
Taking off your clothes is one way to ensure a place in a marathon

If you’ve missed getting a place in this year’s Flora London Marathon, there are always spaces in a “bare buns” fun run. This is the latest running craze in America and involves running starkers around the course.
By far the most popular nude race is the Bay To Breakers run around San Francisco Bay, to be held on May 21.

An increasing number of the 70,000 runners who take to the streets for a conventional 12km (7½-mile) race choose to do so wearing only their birthday suits and a pair of trainers. Deciding where to place the obligatory race-number label can, of course, be a problem.

And because of the potential hazard of bouncing body parts, women are advised “to carry a sports bra and wear it if the need arises”. Furthermore, all entrants are urged “to use prudence” if “they stop for a Starbucks on route”.

The naked entrants even have an official website (www.baretobreakers.com). For future “bare buns” runs in the UK see www.cybernude.com/nuderuns.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 86,00.html
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Jan. 22, 2006, 8:44PM

Maryland judge decides mooning just barely legal

Homeowner who exposed contempt for his neighbor acquitted in appeal

By DAVID MONTGOMERY
Washington Post

WASHINGTON - A suburban judge has ruled that mooning is a cheeky yet legitimate form of communication — but then, Chaucer and Mel Gibson taught us that long ago.

The truth is that words frequently fail the human species. If you want to send a message, don't call Western Union; an even older, surer technology might serve. Unbuckle, bend, let it shine.

What's the message?

"He was showing his disapproval. ... It was intended to offend, in the sense of being critical," says lawyer James Maxwell, speaking of his client, Raymond McNealy, 44, of suburban Germantown, Md.

Last June, exasperated by a feud involving a homeowners association, McNealy felt moved to moon his neighbor Nanette Vonfeldt, a member of the association's board, who was accompanied by her 8-year-old daughter.

McNealy was put on trial for indecent exposure — and found guilty last fall.

His misbegotten moon could have cost him three years in prison and a $1,000 fine.

After an automatic appeal, the verdict was reversed earlier this month.

'Disgusting and demeaning'

As Circuit Judge John Debelius III said in the acquittal, mooning is "disgusting" and "demeaning."

McNealy, who is retired on disability from his family's home improvement business, might have experienced a different judicial outcome, added the judge, if he had been on trial for "being a jerk."

At a time when some say civil liberties are being restricted (the Patriot Act is silent on mooning), it may be comforting that the right of Marylanders to moon has been affirmed.

But the implications are staggering.

Can citizens moon judges, police officers, the governor?

"I don't think that mooning the governor — I'm not suggesting it's a nice thing to do — would be any worse in terms of violation of criminal law than thumbing your nose," opines Maxwell.

He considers his court victory a nice bit of legal reasoning: "With hard work, we cracked the case, no buts about it."

Not so fast, says Montgomery County State's Attorney Doug Gansler: "This is not a blanket permission slip to moon in Maryland."

Criminal intent

Here the lawyers fall into an arcane back-and-forth. While Maxwell says the judge ruled that buttocks are never "private parts" to fit the crime of indecent exposure, Gansler says he'd prosecute again if an alleged mooner intended his act as a crime.

But who moons with criminal intent?

"If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," Debelius said.

Incidentally, Maxwell says his research suggests mooning also is legal in Washington, but not in Virginia.

"If the Georgetown basketball team is traveling out to Virginia, and somebody decides to moon somebody on the way," Maxwell says, "they better do it before they cross the river."

But it's hard to imagine that mooning the White House from Lafayette Square would be tolerated for long.

Let the lawyers haggle. Somehow, the judge's verdict recognizes a more fundamental truth.

Despite scattered prosecutions across the country, the instinct to moon is powerful and persistent.

It has always been with us, because we are not always an eloquent people, or maybe mooning is the height of eloquence.

Chaucer wrote about it

In The Canterbury Tales, written in the 14th century, Chaucer included a seminal mooning scene in The Miller's Tale.

Mooning, or references to buttocks as moons, turns up in the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.

There's mooning in the movies, from American Graffiti to Braveheart, in which Mel Gibson has the brave Scotsmen show what they really think of their English adversaries in a mass battlefield mooning.

Mooning can be a ceremonial, community ritual. For the last quarter-century, there has been a day of the "Annual Mooning of Amtrak," across the street from a bar in Orange County, Calif. Hundreds of people gather along a chain-link fence to moon because it's wacky and fun.

Mooning, as it happens, has a history in official Maryland. Late one night in 1988, Joseph Lutz, a Democratic member of the General Assembly from Harford County, was walking past a restaurant when through the window he spied a table of reporters in the otherwise empty establishment.

He couldn't resist. "It was not a full shot," he said later.

Still: Message received.
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Anti-nude law KOd by Fla. court


DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Let's get naked!

A federal judge struck down Daytona Beach's anti-nudity laws, saying they're unconstitutional.

Regulations prohibiting public nudity and nudity in places that sell alcohol violate the First and 14th amendments' protections of free speech and equal protection, the judge decided.

Daytona Beach also failed to prove its claim that adult nightclubs create secondary negative impacts on levels of crime, prostitution and illegal drug activity in neighborhoods, the judge wrote.

"We won on every single issue," said Daniel Aaronson, a lawyer representing Lollipops Gentleman's Club in its federal lawsuit.

Public nudity has been an issue at some Daytona Beach gatherings, such as Biketoberfest and Spring Break.

City officials said they're considering an appeal.

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News Wire Services


Originally published on January 22, 2006
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www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/stor ... 6562c.html
 
Naked Man Slips Onto U.N. Property


Feb 10, 4:41 PM (ET)

NEW YORK (AP) - A naked man ran onto the high-security grounds of the United Nations on Friday while a gate was being opened to allow a car to enter, police said.

The man was running north on First Avenue at 11:07 a.m. when he slipped through the open gate near 42nd Street, said a police spokesman, Detective Kenneth Czartoryski.

The man was stopped by U.N. security guards and held until police arrived. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation, said Czartoryski.

The man identified himself to police and said he was 32 years old. But because he carried no ID, police could not immediately verify his name.
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060210/D8FMGH3G4.html
 
Burned Man Says He Was Better Off Naked

By The Associated Press Tue Mar 14, 5:27 PM ET

FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Paul Kuschel would have been better off naked — like many of the folks at Sunnier Palms Nudist Park. Instead, he was wearing a pair of nylon shorts Sunday when a generator he was working on backfired and sprayed him with starter fluid, setting him ablaze.

"I would have been better off wearing nothing on at all," Kuschel told Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers. The fire seared his shorts to his backside.

"It's a good thing I wasn't wearing a shirt," he said.

Kuschel, 43, suffered second-degree and third-degree burns.

He was taken to a hospital with non life-threatening wounds and was treated and released.

Authorities said the fire erupted as Kuschel was trying to start the generator on a motorhome in the park, which was also damaged in the blaze.

Kuschel reported to his carpentry job Monday morning, even though he can't even swing a hammer because of his injuries.

"I'm just a tough old mule," Kuschel said. "And I don't want to lose this job."

He said he and his wife, Carol, have lived in a tent since moving from Dayton, Ohio, in February and had planned to move into the motorhome, which he just bought Saturday.

"Guess we'll be back in the tent until I can get (the motorhome) fixed," he said.
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Police pull naked OAP on sex drive off road

POLICE in Italy pulled over a zig-zagging vehicle and discovered a completely naked 70-year-old woman who had been trying to have sex with the driver, aged 59.

After demanding that they get dressed, police tested the semi-naked male motorist for drink driving. "He was three times over the legal limit," a police spokesman in Cologno al Serio, north east of Milan, said.

Asked if the couple were married, he said he wasn't sure but doubted it. "Married people wouldn't probably do anything like this."
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http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=418292006
 
That's a classic!!

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Police 'sold photos' of nude shoot

Monday, March 20, 2006; Posted: 10:49 a.m. EST (15:49 GMT)


LONDON, England (Reuters) -- British detectives said on Monday they had launched an inquiry into claims police staff had been selling close-up pictures of a huge group of naked people who took part in a photo shoot for a U.S. artist.

Around 1,700 volunteers stripped off last July in Newcastle, northeastern England, for an installation by New York-based contemporary artist Spencer Tunick, known worldwide for his photographs of massed groups of naked people.

Northumbria police said they were investigating reports that pictures taken on the day from closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras were now being offered for sale in the area.

"We've spoken to a number of officers and police staff and as a result two (civilian) members of police staff have been suspended," the force's Deputy Chief Constable David Warcup said in a statement.

"If there is found to be any substance in these allegations we will take prompt and robust action. This is not the standard of behavior expected from anyone employed by Northumbria Police."

Tunick has photographed thousands of naked people at many locations around the world including London, Montreal, Jerusalem and New York's Time Square.

People from as far afield as Mexico and Australia joined Britons for last July's dawn photo shoot on and around the Millennium Bridge which links Newcastle and the neighboring town of Gateshead.

"My heart goes out to the people who participated and braved the early morning and the cold weather today," Tunick said at the time.

"I hope they feel like they've accomplished something this morning because I want them, and everyone, to know that I made some wonderful work here in Newcastle/Gateshead and I'm very excited to share the results with the public."

The official pictures are on display at Gateshead's Baltic art gallery.

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www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/20/bri ... index.html
 
Think about this the next time you are on the phone with a friend... :shock:

LINK
Brits are naked callers

One in three Brits regularly make telephone calls in the nude, according to a new survey.

Men are less reserved with over 40% admitting to making naked calls compared with 27% of women.

The study for Post Office HomePhone also revealed that many of us don't pay full attention to callers.

One in ten people admit to wandering off and leaving the caller talking to themselves, and 62% carry on watching TV.

And 5% of people questioned had at one time become so bored with the conversation they fell asleep.
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Wonder what the % of naked FT'ers there are...
 
I can't think I've ever made a nude phone call - I have taken the occasional call on the toilet or when climbing out of the shower/bath but I am usually clothed. I suppose mobile phone usage has seen this sky rocket.

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Naked Came The Stranger

Cops: Woman, 23, showed up at Utah home for impromptu shower

MARCH 24--Meet Natalie Peterson. The 23-year-old Utah woman was arrested yesterday afternoon when she showed up naked to take a shower in a stranger's home. According to cops, prior to Peterson wandering into the home in Roy, she had been in an argument at a relative's house. There, she stripped off her clothes and jumped into her '98 Ford Escort and drove off. A half mile away, Peterson walked into a house occupied by three young siblings, who she ordered to leave "her home." Peterson told the trio she was going to take a shower and headed for the basement. One of the occupants then called cops to report an intrusion by a naked woman. When Roy Police Department officers responded, they found Peterson barricaded in a bedroom and in a highly agitated state. Along with throwing items from the bedroom at police, Peterson urinated in her cupped hand and tossed it at cops. Peterson, apparently under the influence of drugs, was subdued and transported to a local hospital before being booked into the Weber County jail, where the below mug shot was snapped. She is facing a variety of misdemeanor charges, including criminal trespass, assaulting a police officer, and propelling a substance onto an officer. (1 page)
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www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0324061utah1.html
 
Mighty_Emperor said:
I have taken the occasional call on the toilet or when climbing out of the shower/bath but I am usually clothed.
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Do you usually bath or shower with your clothes on? :shock:
 
I frequently answer the phone naked. I sleep naked, so I'm hardly going to put clothes on to answer a phone in my room. Occasionally I'll make a call in the nude as well, if I need to call someone and can't be arsed getting out of bed.

This 10% of people who wander off and leave the caller talking to themselves concern me - well, no, actually it's the people on the other end of the phone who don't notice that the person they're talking to isn't there who concern me.
 
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