The sky is falling?
No, more like pants are falling—at least in Portland, Ore.
Get this: A judge has cleared a naked male bicyclist of indecent-exposure charges because cycling nude is a “well-established tradition” and a form of “symbolic protest” in the City of Roses.
The judge said the city’s annual World Naked Bike Ride involving 1,200 nudists last summer helped cement riding in the buff as a form of protest against cars and dependence on fossil fuels.
So pervs in raincoats can’t legally reveal their private parts to schoolgirls, but pervs dangling their sexual organs from bicycle seats can?
The defendant said he was in full compliance with the law because he was wearing a helmet—on his head, not his crotch.
Not helping the prosecutor was a 1985 Oregon Appeals Court ruling that appearing nude in public can be a protected form of expression if it’s done in political protest.
Look for pervs in unbuttoned raincoats to come up with similar rationales in the future. Ick. (23 NOVEMBER 2008)
