Law and Order Uncovered

[Daggers]

Six years for walking about in the nip?

Think of all those who have been released in a shorter time and what they did to be incarcerated.

Surely there's something a bit wrong about this? (Apart from Dangerous Tigger types who'd happily lock up people for being in possession of an offensive wife).

http://m.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/23/naked-rambler-prison?cat=lifeandstyle&type=article

[Zingari]

surely a slap across the arse with a big wet fish is sufficient punishment for this

[Daggers]

I swear there were more eccentrics in the 70s & 80s.

[Orkneyfox]

He's a bit famous up here, always walking the main highways, much debate about whether this is a harmless obsession, is a bit pervy, or might frighten the horses. The point about the sentence is that this is far from his first offence for the same thing so the tarriff will have increased.

[Daggers]

I just feel that if he isn't tugging away and spunking up high streets then it should be something people grew up about.

I believe being nude isn't illegal - c'mon lawyers, put me right please

[Vacamion]

Maybe instead of taking on the forces of law and order, he should just have put some trousers on and saved himself the bother.

Whilst the law has maybe taken things too far, you could argue that so has he.

He could have ended this pretty quickly and then been free to roam in places where they don't take offence.

I worry for his mental health...

[Daggers]

I worry for his mental health...

Maybe, but he poses no danger and locking him up for a mental health problem is pretty Victorian.

[Vacamion]

I didnt mean that he might have mental health issues because he wants to walk around in the scud. I meant that his wish to tackle the Leviathan of the State and not back down, resulting in years of deadlock, purely because he wants to air his knackers, smacks of a less than balanced decision making process.

Put some trousers on for a bit and go free or make a point and spend years inside... it's not rocket science....

[Daggers]

I guess some of us are pretty dumb when it comes to making points

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[Guest]

Being naked is a crime.

The sort of people who like to walk about naked, aren't the sort of people you really want to be looking at naked.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Being naked is a crime.

The sort of people who like to walk about naked, aren't the sort of people you really want to be looking at naked.

This reminds me of when I was in a graphic design office and there was a brochure for a naturist resort lying on a desk featuring a naked family (all facing away so not show bits, just bums) who looked the picture of health.

A little way across the desk was the photo which they used to create to cover, with their lardy arses proudly red beneath, floppy bellies that had even reached around the back.

[Zingari]

I think the point that Stephen Gough is trying to make is that just because something is a crime in the present day doesn’t mean it should stay a crime. If it did then homosexuality would still be illegal.

i think it would cause more car crashes if lots of bare naked ladies were roaming the highways and byways though

[Daggers]

Being naked is a crime.

The sort of people who like to walk about naked, aren't the sort of people you really want to be looking at naked.

Yet another dig!

[Guest]

Yet another dig!

NO SEXY PROTEST!

This reminds me of when I was in a graphic design office and there was a brochure for a naturist resort lying on a desk featuring a naked family (all facing away so not show bits, just bums) who looked the picture of health.

A little way across the desk was the photo which they used to create to cover, with their lardy arses proudly red beneath, floppy bellies that had even reached around the back.

Precisely.