In your face
Some open carry sorts decided to, well, open carry. This time, the catch was that some women were also going topless to protest topless equality. You know, because men can go shirtless without going to jail but people are afraid of boobies on women in public. Well, charges were dropped because it wasn’t a crime:
Last week, police prosecutors D. Chris McLaughlin and Eliezer Rivera decided to drop the charge of indecent exposure and lewdness against Nicosia. The charge was dropped because walking down the street topless does not qualify as a crime under state law, Keene police Lt. Jay U. Duguay said.
The law states that a person commits indecent exposure and lewdness if he or she fornicates, exposes genitals or performs any other “act of gross lewdness … likely to cause affront or alarm” in public.
Not against the law? Then she should not have been arrested.
Related: I wonder if this would get someone arrested? Is there a rule on how much is enough?
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:16 am
Good to hear about the dismissal. Also I gotta admire whoever planned the protest’s idea to have an attractive and small-chested woman to go shirtless, and flanking her with overweight shirtless men with sizable man-tits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISHXdGKKDZw (SFW video here)
The dichotomy and where it stands with the law was BRILLIANT!
Big hairy unattractive tits, Good, small attractive tits BAD.
Law STUPID!
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 am
NO! NO! NO! NO! We need MORE protests! We can’t stop now! More topless protests are needed to protect the rights of women everywhere!
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:34 am
But I would have given her a ticket for having stupid “Angel wing” tattoo’s on her back.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:48 am
This is a moderately old photo of a topless young lady apparently asking a hulking New York cop in riot gear for directions.
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
The Philip Bantz links seem to be dead.
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Sometimes I really don’t want to know what goes on in the state where I live. (NH)
It is pretty funny from some points of view, but kind of makes NH look like a bunch of loons.
I’m also trying to figure out how an 18 year old from Tx gets a handgun in NH. Must have been an interesting bit of work since she couldn’t have purchased it in NH so someone had to have given it to her. Doesn’t really matter I guess since it’s not illegal for her to posses it as far as I can tell. I guess I’ll be pulling up the state laws after I write this.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 pm
But I would have given her a ticket for having stupid “Angel wing” tattoo’s on her back.
I would give you a ticket for not knowing how to use an apostrophe.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Fair enough