Morgyn Quinn found that out in the Brisbane Magistrate's Court yesterday after he led a 30-strong troupe of scantily-clad cyclists on a ride across the city last month to protest the council's proposed North-South Bypass tunnel.
Posted on 06/24/2005 2:34:31 PM PDT by QwertyKPH
SILVER cowboy boots and a flowing scarf obviously aren't enough to save an otherwise naked person from a charge of wilful exposure.
Morgyn Quinn found that out in the Brisbane Magistrate's Court yesterday after he led a 30-strong troupe of scantily-clad cyclists on a ride across the city last month to protest the council's proposed North-South Bypass tunnel.
The 30-year-old pleaded guilty yesterday to wilful exposure in Albert St on May 15 after the protesters rode from West End across the Goodwill Bridge before most of them were pulled up by police at the Botanic Gardens.
"We planned to go to King George Square but we didn't quite make it," Quinn said outside court yesterday.
The police paddy wagon clearly moved a bit quicker than Quinn's tricycle which he blamed for holding him back.
"The tricycle was really slow," he said. "I think I would have made a proper getaway if I'd had a quicker bike."
Even so, Quinn said the trike was "pretty flash" as he rode it wearing only a pair of silver cowboy boots and a silver space helmet.
"I did have a scarf that hung very low, but obviously not low enough," he said.
Magistrate Jacqui Payne said it Quinn's behaviour was probably out of character and did not record a conviction before sentencing him to a six-month good-behaviour bond.
Quinn – who has no criminal history – has been a 10-year veteran of various social and environmental campaigns which he normally carried out completely clothed.
"I'm not sure if what we've done is going to change anything but I think any sort of project like this needs to be challenged in some way," he said of the tunnel plan.
"You can't just let things go through all the time."
Uh huh.
You keep thinking that way. Darwin would be proud.
Did the silver cowboy boots match his tinfoil hat??
It would have been funnier if he had ridden through a really bad neighborhood and been chased by a mob.
A mob would have slapped more than his wrist
Two words: Scarf Wedgie.
LOL!
"If I had myself a 21 speed, I'd have gotten away with it. And those meddling kids with their talking dog!"
I wondered where you'd been.
That is you on the trike isn't it?
Oh heck no.
I'd be less visible in daylight.
More ethereal, less corporeal.
/ joke.
I'de have been using a motorsickle.
I know it was not you. That dude didn't have your sexy legs!
LOL!
He also isn't dissolving in sunlight like I do nowadays.
You need SPF 50 too. I am the whitest white woman on earth!
I had on SPF 30 two weeks ago, roasted to a crisp on my left wrist and the back of my neck.
Oddly, nowhere else fried despite being in the sun more than my left wrist and the back of my neck.
(Never burned before I got mono in 1997. Burned often since then, and burned weirdly too.)
I used to get dark enough that I could have fit in at downtown Samarra.
Now I'm lucky if I can pull off even a slight offpale tone.
*snicker*
I used to tan like that to. I had to work at it and get a base slowly because I burn easily. But now I have to watch out. I would like to get a normal light tan so I do not look so vampire like.
My shadow is whiter than Michael Jackson. I figure three more generations of Irish marriages and you'll be able to read through my descendants
I gotta head out, got asked to help with something.
*UNNNGH!*
How many tri-cyclists can sit on a bar stool?
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