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Drunk tourists arrested for posing nude in front of Arc de Triomphe
AFP ^
| 6-16-2005
Posted on 06/16/2005 8:04:33 PM PDT by kingattax
PARIS (AFP) - Two US tourists have been arrested in Paris for drunkenly undressing and posing naked in front of the Arc de Triomphe.
The men, aged 20 and 24 but not identified, stripped off late Wednesday to stand in front of the famous monument while their friends took photos, police said Thursday.
Spotted by a police patrol, the pair were ordered dressed and hauled off to explain their actions before being released

TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: arcdetriomphe; drunk; nakedtourists; tourism
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:04:33 PM PDT
by
kingattax
To: kingattax
All the Freeperettes will be along in a minute asking for pics.
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:06:51 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Comment removed by poster before moderator could get to it)
To: kingattax
As much as I have gripes with the French government, that seems like a reasonable thing for them to do.
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:06:55 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: umgud
How come the ladies never get into the act of posing nude in front of landmarks?
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:08:19 PM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
To: kingattax
Hey, I left Paris yesterday. All I did in front of the Arc Triomphe was knock over some muslims on the way to the Etoile Charles De Gaulle Metro stop.
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:10:12 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Frylock is my Homeboy)
To: softwarecreator
How come the ladies never get into the act of posing nude in front of landmarks?Because if they did, the "gentlemen" in Congress might start declaring themselves official landmarks? :-)
To: Bluegrass Conservative
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:11:56 PM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
To: Bluegrass Conservative
And that would solve the problem right quick!
It could have been alot worse...They could have been peeing on it.
To: kingattax
I've always wanted to do that for some inexplicable reason.
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:17:15 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rearview mirror.)
To: kingattax
PICTURES!!!
I just wanna see if I know them.
;-)
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:23:33 PM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of FReepers...)
To: Dashing Dasher
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:30:53 PM PDT
by
CO Gal
(Liberals should be seen, but not heard..)
To: CO Gal
I just hope they're Americans....
We've got to keep up our "Cochon American" image up!
;-)
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:34:43 PM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of FReepers...)
To: Dashing Dasher
Hey, I thought it was the provincial Americans were so sexually repressed, not the so sophisticated Francais...
Apparently it isn't that way.....
To: Donald Meaker
I'm picturing drunken rugby players streaking through l'arc.
And you are correct - I remember nude sunbathers on the banks of Lake Geneva at lunch time - what's a little nude picture taking in front of a national monument between "amis"?
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posted on
06/16/2005 8:46:56 PM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of FReepers...)
To: softwarecreator
How come the ladies never get into the act of posing nude in front of landmarks? er, there are websites (or so I'm told)
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:05:50 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(A wowser, lacking any of the greater virtues, makes up that lack by denunciation of little vices)
To: Oztrich Boy
I wouldn't know anything about that. {{Looking innocent, with halo on}}
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:12:31 PM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
To: kingattax
Spotted by a police patrol, the pair were ordered dressed and hauled off to explain their actions before being released.
What's there to explain at that point?
To: kingattax; Berosus; blam; dervish; Do not dub me shapka broham; Ernest_at_the_Beach; FairOpinion; ..
I dunno. Maybe they were all set to urinate on the national symbol of French imperialism. Why aren't we all headed to the airport right now?
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:41:42 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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