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Naked Bike Ride in Miami Protests Gulf Oil Spill
The Miami New Times ^ | June 9, 2010 | Amanda McCorquodale

Posted on 06/09/2010 5:20:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If you're like us, the first impulse you had after seeing your first oil-soaked seagull was to rip off your clothes and hop on a bike. This Saturday, you can do just that in the company of strangers at the Miami World Naked Bike Ride to protest our nation's dependence on that gooey, wildlife-killing, black gold.

OK, so the organizers put an asterisk next to the word nudity, encouraging imaginative costumes and well-placed body paint. In other words, bare as much as you dare.

World Naked Bike Ride is an international movement, practiced in cities like Vancouver, British Columbia and Auckland, Australia, with the following mission: "We face automobile traffic with our naked bodies as the best way of defending our dignity and exposing the unique dangers faced by cyclists and pedestrians as well as the negative consequences we all face due to dependence on oil, and other forms of non-renewable energy."

Will Miamians have the balls to bare all like these international cities? And will all the exposed balls stop the tar balls from flowing this way? Probably not, but our only other idea is to stop up the leak with Sarah Palin's giant bouffant.

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The first ever Miami World Naked Bike Ride happens this Saturday at the sun-friendly time of 4:30 p.m. The ride starts outside a Miami BP gas station at Biscayne and 10th Street, then heads to South Beach via the Venetian Causeway.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Hobbies; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: hippies; hippiesexpaper; nakedbikeride; napl; newtimes; obamasfault; obamaskatrina; oil; oilspill; pleasenopics; pravdamedia; publicnudity; villagevoice
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To: Grizzled Bear; 2ndDivisionVet; Slings and Arrows

“So...how exactly is riding a bicycle nekkid going to stop the oil leak?”

Well, you know how the A-10 Warthog is so ugly that it is repelled by the ground rather than it flying?
Well, a similar principle applies here.
The sight of so many pasty flabby flappies will compel the planet to stop seeping oil into the environment out of shock and fear.


41 posted on 06/10/2010 6:42:51 AM PDT by Darksheare (Proudly buzzkilling the illusion of confidence in the progress of humanity for 35 years.)
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To: Darksheare
"The sight of so many pasty flabby flappies will compel the planet to stop seeping oil into the environment out of shock and fear."

I'm looking forward to their next stunt when the "naked" caper fails to work. :)


42 posted on 06/10/2010 7:10:02 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("If Obama Won, Then Why Won't Democrats Run on His Agenda?" ~ Rush Limbaugh - May 19, 2010)
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To: TheOldLady
"...or I’ve been a very lucky woman in my two marriages."

OR, maybe you just attract the "talk dirty to me" types.

43 posted on 06/10/2010 7:14:33 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("If Obama Won, Then Why Won't Democrats Run on His Agenda?" ~ Rush Limbaugh - May 19, 2010)
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To: Responsibility2nd

My eyes! My eyes! I cannot unsee what I have seen - damn you, R2!


44 posted on 06/10/2010 7:15:47 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Probably not, but our only other idea is to stop up the leak with Sarah Palin's giant bouffant.

Throw Ann Richards' stinking corpse into the Gulf.

45 posted on 06/10/2010 7:23:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems only right that a Hippie Politics/Sex Ads New Times free alternative weekly would suggest this.


46 posted on 06/10/2010 7:24:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: umgud
Bet they don’t use white bicycle seats.......

They don't want to admit to leakage.

47 posted on 06/10/2010 7:26:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Colvin
THAT will sure solve things. Ridin’ in the nude will cause all the oil to be sucked back down the pipe. Idiots.

They are liberlas first, and "protesters" second.

This bike ride has been planned since March if not earlier.

It is an annual event.

They are hijacking newsprint with claims that it is "to protest the oil spill".

Commies suck.

48 posted on 06/10/2010 7:27:55 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: a fool in paradise

If they are hippies, then I hope they don’t get in the water.
Talk about polution!


49 posted on 06/10/2010 7:29:54 AM PDT by Colvin (Proud Owner '66 Binder PU, '66 Binder Travelall,)
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To: Colvin

Hippies getting an oil bath would at least kill off their crabs.


50 posted on 06/10/2010 7:32:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Matchett-PI

Honey, I’m an old lady and don’t attract much of anybody anymore. Shouldn’t even be on a naked thread. [leaves thread]


51 posted on 06/10/2010 9:24:31 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Darksheare

There may be something to that theory - I’m certainly feeling a strong repulsion away from this event.


52 posted on 06/10/2010 1:48:51 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Matchett-PI

“If everyone jumps off a building, eventually it wouldn’t hurt anymore!” -seen on a card, reminds me of the libs.


53 posted on 06/10/2010 4:29:38 PM PDT by Darksheare (Proudly buzzkilling the illusion of confidence in the progress of humanity for 35 years.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

It’s like those “Hike Naked” nature walks.
You’ll note that wildlife stays away from the area.


54 posted on 06/10/2010 4:30:23 PM PDT by Darksheare (Proudly buzzkilling the illusion of confidence in the progress of humanity for 35 years.)
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To: Darksheare

It’s instinct. “Stay away from the Crazy Things, lest you catch their madness.”


55 posted on 06/10/2010 9:30:17 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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