Tuesday, August 12, 2014
oddly enough
Austrian woman faces fine for nude outings
VIENNA
Even in nonprudish Austria, nudity in public places has its price. A woman faces a fine of up to 1,000 euros ($1,340) for repeated outings in nothing but a pair of white tennis shoes.
Police spokesman Johann Baumschlager says the young woman was stopped by police last Tuesday after cycling past officers manning a radar trap on a highway in northeastern Austria.
Baumschlager said Wednesday the woman was identified and told to go home and get dressed. She also was informed she had been charged with disturbing public decency — a misdemeanor that carries a maximum 1,000-euro fine.
She previously had been sighted in the buff while shopping in a supermarket and at a gas station, filling up her car.
The woman was not identified in keeping with Austrian privacy laws.
Nude political candidate campaigns in Times Square
NEW YORK
New York City’s Naked Cowboy may have met his match.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors candidate George Davis stripped buck naked in Times Square on Wednesday to campaign for the right to be nude in public.
Davis spoke out against a 2013 San Francisco public-nudity ban introduced by his opponent, Scott Wiener. He says nudity is a form of expression.
After Davis’ speech, he conducted interviews stark naked. Then he walked to where artist Andy Golub was body-painting another naked man.
Times Square Batmans and Elmos and other onlookers gawked, laughed and took photos while moving out of Davis’ way. One man loudly read Bible passages.
Davis ran for mayor in 2007 and for District 10 supervisor in 2010. He has been arrested twice for public nudity.
Police arrest man who wins doughnut-eating contest
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.
A North Carolina man celebrated out- eating some police officers, only to find out that he couldn’t outrun them.
The Camden County Sheriff’s Office had been looking for 24-year-old Bradley Herbert Hardison of Elizabeth City in connection with two break-ins.
Authorities arrested Hardison on Wednesday, one day after he won the adult division of a doughnut-eating contest at the Elizabeth City Police Department’s National Night Out Against Crime. Hardison ate eight doughnuts in two minutes, beating a group that included local police officers and firefighters.
In addition to the Camden County charges, Hardison is charged in Pasquotank County with felony larceny and breaking and entering. It’s not known whether he has an attorney.
Associated Press