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http://www.edmontonsun.com/New...07/19/4351315-sun.html
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- Vermont's naked town is under orders to keep its pants on.
On a 3-2 vote, town officials passed an emergency rule Tuesday banning nudity on the main roads and within 75 metres of any school or place of worship, among other places. Anyone still determined to go window shopping au natural could face a US$100 fine.
It took an elderly man wearing only a fanny pack and wandering through the centre of town last week for the Select Board to decide it had seen enough.
The nudists and their fans still get a say in the matter: Next month, Brattleboro will hold a public hearing on whether the ordinance should be made permanent. The ordinance defines nudity as the showing of genitalia, buttocks or female breasts, although a provision allows breast-feeding in public.
Ok, so this has been on CNN, NBC, CBS, FOX, etc, etc. so I guess most people are aware of it.
However, this is MY town.
And it is important to remember you can STILL go naked in over 95 percent of the town.
Now, up til recently the lack of a law against nudity worked pretty well, in fact, it worked well for 200 years.
A couple of years back, some high school students decided to actually see what would happen if they exercised their rights. A few of them went naked in a parking lot for a couple of hours. Everyone laughed. The next year some other high school students repeated the effort, and we all laughed.
However, when a middle aged guy decided to join the Gallery Walk thru town on a Friday night, the town freaked. Now, I saw the guy, and he was ugly. And it was inappropriate to be naked during this event.
Of course, it took the town BUSINESSES to push for a law banning nudity in some limited areas. The reason: They say its bad for business.
Can't have people excerising their rights when it interferes with BUSINESS.
But cheer up. If you want to visit MY town, I will tell you all the places you can show your business legally. And its most of the town.
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- Vermont's naked town is under orders to keep its pants on.
On a 3-2 vote, town officials passed an emergency rule Tuesday banning nudity on the main roads and within 75 metres of any school or place of worship, among other places. Anyone still determined to go window shopping au natural could face a US$100 fine.
It took an elderly man wearing only a fanny pack and wandering through the centre of town last week for the Select Board to decide it had seen enough.
The nudists and their fans still get a say in the matter: Next month, Brattleboro will hold a public hearing on whether the ordinance should be made permanent. The ordinance defines nudity as the showing of genitalia, buttocks or female breasts, although a provision allows breast-feeding in public.
Ok, so this has been on CNN, NBC, CBS, FOX, etc, etc. so I guess most people are aware of it.
However, this is MY town.
And it is important to remember you can STILL go naked in over 95 percent of the town.
Now, up til recently the lack of a law against nudity worked pretty well, in fact, it worked well for 200 years.
A couple of years back, some high school students decided to actually see what would happen if they exercised their rights. A few of them went naked in a parking lot for a couple of hours. Everyone laughed. The next year some other high school students repeated the effort, and we all laughed.
However, when a middle aged guy decided to join the Gallery Walk thru town on a Friday night, the town freaked. Now, I saw the guy, and he was ugly. And it was inappropriate to be naked during this event.
Of course, it took the town BUSINESSES to push for a law banning nudity in some limited areas. The reason: They say its bad for business.
Can't have people excerising their rights when it interferes with BUSINESS.
But cheer up. If you want to visit MY town, I will tell you all the places you can show your business legally. And its most of the town.
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