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Hayward -- Hayward firefighters extricated a naked man early Saturday who was stuck in the chimney of his stepmother's residence in Hayward. After the man was freed and treated at a local hospital, he was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, according to police. Officers initially responded to a report by a Hayward resident on Gainesville Avenue who said she had heard muffled calls for help outside of her home over the course of several hours. "We started walking around the neighborhood, and then we heard the cries for help," said Hayward police Lt. Gary Branson....

OAKLAND - Most carpenters work in coveralls or at least pants and a shirt. Police say Percy Honniball prefers to do his work in his birthday suit. ``It's more comfortable,'' said Honniball in a phone interview Thursday. ``The primary reason is so I (won't) dirty my clothes and have to get into my truck with dusty clothes on.'' But not everyone is tolerant of nude carpenters. A Montclair homeowner called police when he arrived home early and found the worker buck naked. ``He got upset and he said `You have to leave,' '' Honniball said of the incident last October....

LINCOLN, Neb. -- A nude Internet model had another brush with the law Wednesday night in Lincoln. Melissa Harrington was ticketed at a bar for public indecency, public nudity and for having sexual contact. Lincoln police said the paint she uses to cover her nipples violates the city ordinance. They also said she touched a customer as she was accepting money. The owner and manager of Cheerleaders Bar were also ticketed for permitting sexual contact. This is the third occasion police have ticketed Harrington in the last couple years. Previous Stories: March 10, 2006: Nude Model Says Police Are Picking...

MARCH 24--Meet Natalie Peterson. The 23-year-old Utah woman was arrested yesterday afternoon when she showed up naked to take a shower in a stranger's home. According to cops, prior to Peterson wandering into the home in Roy, she had been in an argument at a relative's house. There, she stripped off her clothes and jumped into her '98 Ford Escort and drove off. A half mile away, Peterson walked into a house occupied by three young siblings, who she ordered to leave "her home." Peterson told the trio she was going to take a shower and headed for the basement....

CARACAS, Venezuela - More than 1,500 Venezuelans shed their clothes on a main city avenue Sunday to pose for American photographer Spencer Tunick, forming a human mosaic in front of a national symbol: a statue of independence hero Simon Bolivar. As Tunick shouted commands through a megaphone, nude people of every shape, size and skin tone gathered on the avenue and stairs in front of the statue just before dawn. "There are some people over there with clothes, get them out of there!" said Tunick, an artist from Brooklyn, N.Y., who has been documenting groups of nude people in public...

Today, probably nothing so alienates us from the high art of the European past as its most prestigious subject - the male nude. Visit any old European museum, from Naples to Bloomsbury, and they have more marble statues of disrobed gods and heroes than they can reasonably display. Once these nudes were considered the apex of European culture. Today we don't really know what to do with them, and the reason for this was anticipated when parliament presented Canova's Napoleon to the Duke of Wellington as a ludicrous example of imperial art. Let's face it: the male nude is embarrassing.

JAMES BOND star Daniel Craig is ready to bare all in his first film as 007. Craig, 37, told movie bosses he would not only show his bottom - but was happy to do the Full Monty. The star of Casino Royale said: "In today's world we expect female actresses to go naked so why not men? "I have told bosses I'm prepared to do a full frontal scene. I'm not shy and Bond wouldn't be shy about it either." The blond actor has come in for criticism from die-hard Bond fans who don't think he is tough enough. They...

BERKELEY, Calif. - Dozens of University of California, Berkeley, students took advantage of a break in the recent cold and rainy weather Wednesday to strip naked and protest the use of sweatshops to make college apparel. The revealing display in front of the building housing Chancellor Robert Birgeneau's office quickly attracted a crowd of about 300 onlookers, many of whom snickered and kept well away from the protesters. Some of the 36 or so male and female protesters remained fully clothed, while others demonstrated in nature's own. Past sweatshop protests - which did not feature nudity - drew little response,...

Too bad Ginger White, a Bradenton figure artist and director of the Anna Maria Island Art League, found it necessary to go to Sarasota to exhibit her work. White experienced censorship at the Manatee County Public Library in Holmes Beach last year and had to relocate her work to the Digital 3 Gallery in Sarasota. Chalk drawings, which included bared breasts, were taken from view at the library because they were said to be too near the children's section. As if children haven't seen breasts since birth. As if children think of nudity in the same way adults do. Not...

A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other Web sites, likely violate U.S. copyright law. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz ruled Friday that Perfect 10, an adult-oriented Web site featuring "beautiful natural women" in the nude, has shown that Google image search probably infringes copyright law "by creating and displaying thumbnail copies of its photographs." The Los Angeles judge said he would award Perfect 10 a preliminary injunction against Google, and gave lawyers for both sides until March 8 to propose the injunction's wording....

NICOSIA (Reuters) - A raunchy picture of a Cypriot teacher in a state of undress was surreptitiously downloaded from her mobile telephone and sent to hundreds of pupils. The picture made the rounds at the school in the port town of Limassol on the Mediterranean island Tuesday after the teacher left her phone unattended by her desk. But the prank was not appreciated by parents or teachers, and police have launched an investigation into the incident. "The police have been summoned, there is a patrol car at the school and the crime department are here to take fingerprints off the...

Nearly three centuries ago, the merchants of lower Manhattan kept losing ships to the sandbars that lined the narrow channel leading to New York City.  Upset over the growing losses, the merchants banded together and built a lighthouse on the edge of Sandy Hook in order to guide ships safely to the young city. The lighthouse was so effective that the British took it during the Revolutionary War to ensure their ships made it to Manhattan.The Sandy Hook lighthouse still shines its light 19 miles out to aid passing ships, a 70-foot-tall reminder of the importance of the sea to...

NEW YORK (AP) - It was one of those "only in New York" moments: Two coffins, laid out in the middle of Times Square in a cold rain, with the naked bodies of a man and a woman in them - talking. Their message was: Some clothes sold in America are made with fur that comes from animals allegedly tortured in China. "Animals are skinned alive in China, because it's cheaper than to kill them humanely," said Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, opening her eyes as she shivered in a black cardboard coffin, with...

Mr Locke said his run would be 'artistic' A New Zealand politician who pledged to run naked through the street if a rival candidate won Saturday's election has promised to keep his word. Green Party MP Keith Locke had pledged to strip off in his Epsom constituency if Act Party leader Rodney Hide won the Auckland seat. Seen as a long-shot, Mr Hide surprised pundits by winning a big majority. Mr Locke said the Greens were a party of their word, and he did not want to break an election promise. "We haven't set a date, we've got preparations to...

Spirit Daily ___________________________________________Chancellor Defends 'Nude' Statue and Meditations With Potential Occult LinksThe chancellor of a major American diocese has defended the use of both yoga and a form of esoteric therapy called "reiki" as ways of enhancing prayer and healing in a Catholic setting -- a view that appears to be in contradiction of the Vatican.The chancellor, Father Ralph E. Wiatrowski, of Cleveland, says that the diocese does not officially propagate the practices but sees nothing wrong with elements of them. His views first came to light in a letter to a local woman who had complained about  use...

As it happened, my youngest son, Rudy, was in New Orleans as the storm approached the Gulf Coast, so I was acutely focused on what actions were being taken to evacuate the city. On Aug. 27, with the hurricane gaining force in the Gulf, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin called for a voluntary evacuation of the city....

Bill Van Keuren shouldn't have had any trouble selling his family's house. It's a three-story colonial with a formal dining room, thick mahogany doors, leaded-glass windows and an enclosed porch. A spring-fed lake is just steps away, past two tennis courts and a hot tub. The house sits on 145 acres of pristine Sussex County woodlands in a naturist resort. It is priced very attractively at $395,000. Still, it has languished on the market for more than a year, even as its price has been reduced from $450,000. How can such a home defy the roaring real estate market in...

y The Associated Press (8/03/05 - PEKIN, IL) — Even in death, Robert Norton's nakedness is a no-no. Norton, 82, spent four decades in and out of court fighting Norton, 82, spent four decades in and out of court fighting repeated arrests for gardening and wandering his yard in the nude. He said he wanted to be buried without any clothes, but his family is sending him to eternity wearing gray slacks and a matching shirt. "He's not going to be buried in the nude," said his brother, Jack Norton, a minister. Robert Norton's family said they hope to lay...

A dozen antiwar activists from Mendocino County took their tops off in San Francisco's Union Square shopping district Thursday, using what they said was their best weapon to get the public's attention. The topless protest drew gawks and stares from passersby, some of whom couldn't believe what they were seeing. "Whoa, get out your cameras and cover your children's eyes," said the driver of a motorized cable car packed with tourists, as he pulled to a stop in front of Macy's. Members of the au naturale contingent Breasts Not Bombs said the war is indecent, not their nakedness. "Boobies never...

An executive tried to liven up a dull day at the office by stripping naked to interview a 25-year-old woman, a court heard yesterday. Saeed Akbar, 35, said at first that it was part of his "tough interviewing technique" but later admitted that he was bored and wanted a "cheap thrill". He asked the woman, who was applying for a translator's job, if she minded if they took their clothes off. When she refused, he left the room for a few minutes and returned naked, carrying only a clipboard. He got dressed again when she objected to his behaviour and...

Several of my recent threads / comments have related to a DUI arrest I recently had. I will not defend that. One of the more interesting subjects which came up when I was in jail was whether you can be arrested for "drunk in public" when you are on your own property. My position is that this should not be possible. I like to sit out on my front porch, have a drink or three, and study my shubbery. I am not driving or doing anything else which I consider to be wrong. The overwhelming consensus among my cell-mates is...

Woman Sues Yahoo Over Nude Photos Posted on the Internet, Allegedly by Former Boyfriend The Associated Press Published: May 27, 2005 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A woman sued Yahoo Inc. for $3 million, alleging the Internet site failed to fulfill a promise to remove nude pictures of her from the Web. Cecilia Barnes, 48, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Multnomah County, claims an ex-boyfriend began posting unauthorized personal profiles of her containing the photos in December. The profiles included her e-mail address and work phone number. The former boyfriend also engaged in online discussions in Yahoo chat rooms while...

Some fitness fads require sporty gear and equipment, but the practice of yoga requires only the bare essentials: loose clothes, a mat and time to do the exercises. The latest trend in yoga requires even less. We're not talking about aqua yoga, done in a pool, or disco yoga, set to dance tunes, or "boga," boxing yoga, done with gloves. No, a San Francisco community center is offering naked yoga, where bare essentials means just that: Men and women are completely nude during the 90- minute class. This is not the invention of "naked yoga guy" George Monty Davis, who...

INVERNESS - An Inverness man was arrested Saturday after breaking into his neighbors' house and threatening them, shocking himself by sticking his fingers into a lamp socket, threatening a deputy with a metal rod, running naked through his yard and chewing through a cable in a patrol car, authorities said. Authorities arrested Shyne Harris Phelps, 39, of 2510 Jupiter St., at 1:45 a.m., on charges of kidnapping, burglary of a dwelling, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer with intent to commit a felony, resisting an officer with violence, battery and criminal mischief, an arrest report said. Deputies were called...

(03-30) 13:50 PST Edinburgh, Ind. (AP) -- The Venus de Milo had better wear a top and Michelangelo's David should put on some pants if they're going to be seen at a yard art business. Bartholomew County officials told the business near Interstate 65 that it must move cement copies of the classical statues — and about 10 others — out of public view because they are obscene under Indiana law. "It's not fair to point out our business, and personally, I don't find them offensive," Ginger Streeval, a co-owner of White River Truck Repair and Yard Art, told the...

San Juan, Puerto Rico - A cruise company says one of its ships carrying gay and nudist passengers was temporarily stopped and prevented from entering the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis. Windjammer Barefoot Cruises says the ship is carrying 110 passengers. The Miami Beach-based company says the ship was stopped by authorities off the smaller island of Nevis. The company says authorities from the islands old cruise ship employees that they had concerns about letting the ship in because it was a gay and nudist cruise. The company says it is working with higher authorities to resolve the...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A cruise ship carrying gay and nudist passengers was temporarily stopped and prevented from entering the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis on Wednesday, a company official said. -SNIP- "The passengers can be nude while the ship is at sea but once they come to shore they obviously have to be clothed," Kersten said.

MADRID (AFP) - The annual "running of the bulls" in the northern Spanish town of Pamplona could get some serious competition this year, in the form of a rival run by naked humans protesting cruelty to animals. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) group, which has protested against the event in the past, even announced that it was asking the town authorities to replace the traditional bull-chase with its "running of the nudes." The nine-day San Fermin festival, due to start on July 6, traditionally involves hundreds of runners, including many tourists, trying to outrace a herd...

Nude Man Covered in Cheese Gets Probation 39 minutes ago Strange News - AP MARYVILLE, Tenn. - A man caught by police last summer on his 23rd birthday running naked and covered in nacho cheese pleaded guilty Monday to burglary and four other charges. Michael David Monn of Maryville appeared before Blount County Circuit Court Judge D. Kelly Thomas and pleaded guilty to burglary, theft, vandalism, indecent exposure and public intoxication. In a plea bargain with prosecutors, Monn was sentenced to three years in prison but was given supervised probation. He also was given a judicial deferral, which means if...

NEW YORK - The diners arrived at a nice Manhattan restaurant on a cold February night and stripped off coats, hats, gloves and scarves. They didn’t stop there. Skirts, shirts, pants, underwear and stockings all ended up stashed in plastic bags by the bar as the patrons got naked for the monthly “Clothing Optional Dinner.”

BOISE, Idaho - A city ordinance bans complete nudity at all gentleman's clubs, but one has challenged that ordinance by distributing pencils and sketch pads to patrons during "art night." The ordinance does give nudity exclusions for artistic displays which include dance, ballet and dramatic performances, so every Monday and Tuesday, the club encourages customers to sketch the models as they perform nude routines. "As far as the Boise city code, it specifies it has to be a serious artistic manner and this is a serious artistic manner," said Chris Teague, Erotic City owner. The club has put on art...

An emailed New Year photo of naked people contains a nasty shock - a worm that will turn off security protection and harvest email addresses Antivirus companies have unearthed a computer worm that hides behind an image of naked people. According to antivirus company Sophos, the naughty New Year photo message contains a mass-mailing worm, dubbed Wurmark-D, that is programmed to disable security software on host computers and send itself to email addresses stored there. "Once activated, this worm will harvest your computer hunting for other email addresses to send itself to and try and turn off antivirus software," said...

Assateague Island (WJZ) Park rangers on the Eastern Shore have a warning for would-be nudists -- keep your clothes on! Rangers on Assateague Island say some nudists have considered the southern part of the national seashore a safe zone for nude sunbathing. So park officials will be stepping up enforcement of indecent exposure laws. This summer, two men from Ocean City were convicted and fined $650 after their arrests. Both men are now banned from the national and state parks on the island for three years. Assistant Chief Ranger Ted Morlock says rangers became more concerned about the issue this...

When the Rev. Joe Roberson heard that his grandson was accused of running through Minneapolis streets naked and scuffling with police, he had a good guess at what happened. "I believe he just quit taking his medications," Roberson said about his grandson, Michael Porter, 19, who was seriously injured Tuesday when a police dog bit him in the groin. Porter, who remained in serious condition Thursday night at Hennepin County Medical Center, was eventually subdued with a Taser gun.

When Rebecca Braun saw a flyer requesting male volunteers for a breast cancer fund-raising calendar she suggested that her husband try out for it. Steve, 46, her husband, agreed. After all, Rebecca, 41, is a five-year survivor of breast cancer. Then he went on the calendar's Web site to uncover further information and learned the bare essentials. "I didn't know you were supposed to pose naked," he said. "But after reading the Web site I said, 'I get it.' " Braun, of Inverness, and 11 other men -- each representing a month of the year -- have posed au naturel...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- It ended peacefully, but it was a situation that could have led to carnage on a highway early Saturday morning: a speeding tractor-trailer running from police on the wrong side of a Connecticut highway. Even more bizarre, police said the trucker was nude from the waist down. And police found an open can of beer in the cab. The 18-wheeler --registered to a New Jersey trucking company -- got stuck on a street divider in Newington, Conn., after a wild half-hour police chase through four towns. Police said the driver was Steven Reed (pictured, left), 44, of...

A man who put up his fists for the right to sunbathe nude outside a bar in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood has died of injuries he suffered in the fight, police said Tuesday. Jay Carbone, 52, hit his head during the scuffle at the Pendulum bar and died at Davies Medical Center. No one has been arrested, but police are investigating whether homicide charges should be brought. Police Inspector Herman Jones said the incident had occurred Thursday afternoon when Carbone came to the Pendulum on 18th Street, ordered drinks, disrobed on the back terrace and proceeded to sunbathe. After about...

Prosecuting a nuisance -- even a naked one -- is turning out to be more than just a nuisance for the San Francisco district attorney. It's proving to be nearly impossible. First, there was the failed attempt to silence the infamous Bushman, whose "Ugga-bugga!'' still scares the daylights out of Fisherman's Wharf tourists. Now comes the Naked Yoga Guy (a.k.a. George Monty Davis), whose in-the- buff appearances have landed him in court today on charges of dropping his pants in public along the wharf. From the looks of things, he'll walk, too. Prosecutors, we've been told, plan to drop the...

All the Nudes That's Fit to Print Radicals planning to cause mayhem at the GOP convention should accept this sad fact: Murdoch’s minions are waiting.The last time a major party held its nominating convention in New York City, I was among the tribe of protesters clamoring outside. I had hitchhiked from Oakland to Manhattan and, after adventures with a guy in Barstow who claimed he was jumping parole and barked, "I swear by my white skin!" after each beer, or the gentleman in southern Missouri who loaded the shotgun in his rifle rack and declared his intention to shoot the...

Canadian govt denies nude women photos AFP TORONTO – The Canadian government is denying reports its visa officers are sifting through hundreds of nude photos from women hoping to enter the country to work as strippers and exotic dancers. But immigration officials admit they do require photographic evidence from applicants of their trade – and say its all done to crack down on trafficking in women. Eyebrows were raised in May when reports from Mexico said immigration officers were ferreting through pictures of strippers to ensure they were bona fide visa applicants. New controversy erupted on Tuesday, after the Toronto...

A country club restaurant in Shreveport must allow women in, despite the fact that fellas are known to strip down and dine there naked, the Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled. The Southern Trace Country Club's (search) Men's Grille has been closed to the ladies because some of its male members lounge around in towels or in the buff, the Associated Press reported. But the court said that wasn't a valid reason to bar women from entering. Prohibiting women from a public dining area is unconstitutional, the court ruled, whether or not there's a locker-room atmosphere inside. On top of that,...

The ACLU is now suing for the right to allow people to operate nude camps for teens. The group filed a motion in Richmand, Virginia to invalidate a state ban on such camps. The state had imposed the ban because White Tail Park had attempted to operate a camp last year for kids aged 11-18. The ACLU is attempting to make the argument that lawmakers over reached and over reacted to the camp by passing such a ban. The ACLU is also arguing that such a ban "interferes" with the "right" of a family to raise and nurture their children....

A Fredericksburg woman's choice of discipline got her into trouble this week when neighbors complained about her naked son. The mother was charged with felony child neglect after police found her 12-year-old son raking leaves in the buff about 7 p.m. Tuesday, city police spokesman Jim Shelhorse said yesterday. Temperatures had dipped into the high 40s, the wind was whipping and a cold rain had started to fall, police said. A neighbor in the Mayfield subdivision called 911 to report seeing the boy raking leaves in the front yard without clothes, Shelhorse said. When an officer arrived, the boy was...

So far, the 1997 Miss Nude World International pageant has been one big tease for Vanessa Steele-Inman. When she competed in the Atlanta-based event seven years ago, the former stripper qualified for the semifinals before being kicked out on what she said were trumped-up charges of cheating. Three years later, a Fulton County jury said the contest promoters and managers of the Pink Pony nightclub should pay Steele-Inman more than $2.5 million in compensatory damages, punitive damages and attorney fees for slander and tortious interference with business relations. But last week the Georgia Court of Appeals took away her victory,...

Posted on Tue, Mar. 09, 2004 Judge Rules 'Girls Gone Wild' Is Not PornAssociated Press PANAMA CITY, Fla. - A videotape of an underage girl exposing her breasts is not child pornography, a judge decided Tuesday in a criminal case against the producer of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series.Joe Francis, 30, and several of his employees were arrested at Panama City Beach while filming during spring break last April. Bay County sheriff's deputies charged Francis with racketeering related to prostitution and other crimes, based largely on videotapes of girls under 18.Many of the 43 counts he faces hinge on...

Nude hiker covers the length of Britain Thu Jan 22, 4:40 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - A hiker completed his naked quest to walk the entire length of Britain wearing nothing but a pair of boots and a rucksack on his back, reaching John O'Groats on the northern tip of Scotland to a rapturous welcome from local residents. Over the course of his 1,450-kilometre (900-mile) journey from Lands End on England's south coast, Steve Gough, 44, has been arrested numerous times, has made several court appearances and has served two jail sentences. "My body is part of me and it's...

KAANAPALI, Hawaii -- Two California men were arrested in the death of an 18-year-old New Jersey cheerleader whose naked body tumbled from the ninth floor balcony of a Maui hotel. The two men, whose identities were not immediately released, were arrested Tuesday on charges of second-degree murder in the death of Lauren Crossan, of Randolph, N.J., said Lt. Tivoli Faaumu. Crossan was part of a group from the National Association of American Cheerleaders that was on Maui to participate in Saturday's Hula Bowl college football game. Her body was discovered Monday morning on the grounds of the Hyatt Regency Maui...

<p>MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) --A naked man got stuck in the chimney of a bookstore early Christmas morning.</p> <p>Don't worry, it wasn't Santa Claus.</p> <p>The 34-year-old man was treated Thursday for bruises and abrasions at Hennepin County Medical Center after being found naked and lodged in the furnace flue at Uncle Hugo's Bookstore. He was expected to be charged with attempted burglary on Friday.</p>

You'll need to strip yourself of more than your inhibition and bare more than your soul if you want to take part in karaoke at the Bristol Station Cafe. Cafe owner Marty St. Pierre says he was just kidding around when he advertised "Naked Karaoke" in front of his bar. Then he got volunteers. Lots of them. "It honestly started out as a joke," he said. "But there were people signing up, so I just let it run." But not everyone warmed up to the idea. The cafe's neighbors called Town Hall to complain, and town authorities went to warn...

450 Women Join Nude Photo Shoot in N.Y. By MADISON J. GRAY, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - The women crossed their arms to keep warm in the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal early Sunday as they prepared to pose for Spencer Tunick's latest human art installation. All 450 of them were nude. AP Photo The women, all volunteers, arrived at about 3 a.m. Sunday, stripped off their clothes and composed their bodies into sculptural shapes and formations meant to imitate streets, buildings and cityscapes. The building had been closed to the public during the shoot. "I wanted to...