{"id":318,"date":"2006-08-22T13:09:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T18:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/318"},"modified":"2006-08-22T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T18:16:07","slug":"ill-assume-the-horrible-winters-have-something-to-do-with-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/318","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Assume The Horrible Winters Have Something To Do With This…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nude people in town center could prompt ban<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. – Complaints about young people who spend time in downtown naked have prompted the Select Board to explore an anti-nudity ordinance.<\/p>\n

Groups of young people have been congregating in a downtown parking lot and enjoying the warm summer weather without clothing, and that bothers some local residents.<\/p>\n

"A parking lot is not a strip club. It’s a parking lot," resident Theresa Toney told the Select Board last week. She said she has seen repeated instances of naked people hanging out downtown.<\/p>\n

"This is a problem. What about children seeing this?" Toney asked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Actually…I’ve always thought dolls without genitals were more likely to warp impressionable young minds.  But I digress…\n<\/p>\n

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Vermont has no law against nudity, though some cities and towns ban it by ordinance.<\/p>\n

News that the Select Board had asked Town Attorney Robert Fisher to research a possible local ordinance drew a protest of sorts Friday, as five young men gathered downtown and stripped their clothes off in protest.<\/p>\n

"There’s no real valid way to justify the banning of nakedness," said one of the men, Adhi Palar, between licks on his clarinet. "Nakedness does not violate any human rights whatsoever."<\/p>\n

With no law to enforce, Police Chief John Martin was taking a laid-back approach.<\/p>\n

"What’s the harm?" Martin asked. "It’s a problem to the extent that it bothers people, but we’ve always had it here."<\/p>\n

"We get calls and we check out what’s going on. Even though there’s often no criminal violation, we want to be sure there isn’t a confrontation. Or that someone is not emotionally disturbed."<\/p>\n

A criminal charge might result if the nudity is sexual in nature, with the purpose of "gratification or the intent of arousing oneself or another," Martin said.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well…there go all my stereotypes about taciturn New Englanders.  You have to like the laid back approach the police are taking here.  I guess if I couldn’t step outside all winter long without looking like the Michelin tire man I might get a tad giddy in the summertime too.  I wonder if it’s a vitamin D craving or something…?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nude people in town center could prompt ban BRATTLEBORO, Vt. – Complaints about young people who spend time in downtown naked have prompted the Select Board to explore an anti-nudity ordinance. Groups of young people have been congregating in a downtown parking lot and enjoying the warm summer weather without clothing, and that bothers some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}