Posted on 11/01/2009 5:31:23 PM PST by Eddings
Police in Boulder, Colorado, were reportedly successful last night in stopping yet another annual "nude pumpkin run" -- in which men and woman run down a pedestrian mall naked with carved out pumpkins over their heads.
The local American Civil Liberties Union is outraged over what he claims is the denial of a constitutional right.
Liberal Boulder residents and public officials in the ultraliberal city also are upset, according to a Wall Street Journal article on police efforts to stop the informal annual rite that the local police chief say has gotten totally out of hand. Last year, the event attracted 150 naked pumpkin runners.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This has all the makings of a great South Park episode.
I didn’t know that running around nude is a Constitutional right.
Yet walking around inside your own home nude is a crime, especially if you have a nosy peeping tomette outside at 5:30 A.M. waling through your yard.
The American Communist Legal Unit is at it again.
Where does it say in the Constitution that I have a right to run around naked in public?
I can only imagine what the Great Turkey Run will look like.
Waling?
*sigh*
Walking..
Though in context ‘waling’ may be beytter..
I have the greatest idea... what if we combine the annual nude pumpkin run with a punkin’ chunkin’ contest.
Now THAT would be great entertainment!
Why are the people who get nude in these events people you wouldn’t ever want to see nude?
It is impossible to make an informed decision without graphic representation of a “Nude Pumpkin Run”!
Simple embarrassment and shame may work where the law fails us.
Actually, I have one thing to add...
Tehran???
“I didn’t know that running around nude is a Constitutional right. Yet walking around inside your own home nude is a crime, especially if you have a nosy peeping tomette outside at 5:30 A.M. waling through your yard.”
That’s right! I remember that story from a couple weeks ago. Some homeowner walked into this kitchen to get a cup of coffee, sans clothing, and some nosy harpee walking down the street looked in his window and saw him, and then called the police.
I love that term Harpy.
Actually, Boulder is a university town, so it is not too bad.
http://nakedpumpkinrun.org/gallery.html
I also remember an episode in Mad Magazine back in, oh, 1963 or so. Some old lady called the police to complain that there was a naked man in the house across the street and she could see him clearly. The police officer responds and goes to her house to interview her, but he tells her he doesn’t see anyone across the street, and in fact doesn’t even see a house across the street. He goes on to tell her the closest house is a half mile away, and it is too far to see anybody. The old lady gets indignant and says “Well, of course you can’t see him! You’re not using THESE!” Whereupon she holds up a pair of binoculars.
Because it follows the "chainmail bikini inversion" rule that anyone who has been to any sort of geek convention (gaming, comic book, sci-fi) can quickly assure you exists.
The organizers put up their own pictures.
Look at #15 for the link.
Isn’t there a K-9 club that can hold a run on the same night?
More likely acorn shufflers........
I'd think it would be possible in ways not imagined by the participants.
Frankly, it's pretty stupid to run around with a pumpkin over your head anyway. People might do anything to you.
In a sane world the entire membership of the ACLU would be tossed in a volcano.
‘Frankly, it’s pretty stupid to run around with a pumpkin over your head anyway. People might do anything to you.”
Not if you cut eyeholes. I couldn’t do it myself without a couple more strategically placed gourds. Speaking of... these folks are plumb out of their gourds, no doubt.
Who'dathought?
Too bad. It sounds like harmless silly fun. If we locked up criminals instead letting them run around loose, it wouldn’t be a problem to let something like this go on once a year (as long as it reasonably brief, and the time and place are publicly announced well in advance, for the benefit of people who don’t want to happen upon it with their kids in tow). But we do let criminals run around loose, lots and lots of them, and they’ll eagerly jump in on something like this and ruin it.
The right to run down the mall naked with a pumpkin over your head is found in the Constitution immediately after the right to abortion. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the gay marriage right is covered in that same article.
The 10th Amendment.
The Constitution limits the Fed Gov’t. It doesn't grant rights.
The cops should let them do it, then when they get to the end of the mall ... taze them! Then put it on You-Tube.
It's not a good idea to blind yourself that way.
Film that and make more money than Michael Moore ever imagined he could waste on food ~ and that's an incredible amount of money.
Agreed, Boulder needs to lighten up.
PICTURES
Publish Pictures
The police are probably putting a stop to it because they had to. I don’t know exactly what happened last year, but when you’ve got a bunch of people running around with pumpkins on their heads, it provides anonymity for people who come and crash the party with totally different intentions than the organizers. Just takes a handful of thugs to start grabbing breasts and penises and jewelry and punching people who try to stop them, and the police have little choice but to shut down the party.
Exactly,
The feds didn’t arrest the streakers, the local PD did.
Link at #15
It’s good I suppose that leftists have something besides their stupidity to show off.
Probably got tired of wearing bags on their heads. Some are prolly 2-baggers.
“It’s not a good idea to blind yourself that way.”
Yeah, but your head smells like pumpkin pie.
Don’t any of you remember the Founders calling for naked pumpkin running to be inserted into the Bill of Rights?
Simple embarrassment and shame may work where the law fails us.
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Sorry, you would be wasting your time because these knuckleheads have no shame.
Yeah, but your head smells like pumpkin pie.
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I must tell you that you truly made me LOL. Thanks.
Constitutional? Yes when it is in Boulder.
Finally the ACLU supports something I can support. I think this is funny as heck.
It’s what I live for...
GG
“It sounds like harmless silly fun.”
Public nudity is a crime. You think it should be legal?
I'm outraged a bunch of Bolsheviks were, starting in the 1920s, able to convince Americans to reject the "civil liberty" the founders and framers used and embrace the plural, "civil liberties".
The plural rejects the idea of objective truth, it promotes licentiousness and Jacobinism.
You don't run down the street naked with a pumpkin on your head if you want to maintain liberty. You don't wear a "Bong for Jesus" to HS to "test" freedom of speech if you really believe in liberty. All these self-indulgent hedonistic and arrogant actions create the opposite of what the promoters of "civil liberties" claim to want. They tangle socity up in laws, they provoke litigation, they lead to rule by judges and are responsible for the Zero Tolerance society we see today.
lighten up Francis.
YOU lighten up. :)
The sponsor organization is called “NPR” — figures.
The ACLU had its beginning when they had the three young men thrown into the fiery furnace (Daniel 3:19-30) and the ACLU also promoted Daniel to be thrown into the den of lions.(Daniel 6:16-28)
May we note it was not the three young men that burnt, nor was it Daniel that was consumed by the lions.
It may be soon that todays ACLU will be devoured by fire and/or eaten by lions!
Next year FR should be the “Pick the runner” sponsor of the event. Works much better that way when posting TTIWWOP.
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