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Naked carpenter charged with indecency
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/21/6 | Nanette Asimov

Posted on 04/21/2006 4:52:20 PM PDT by SmithL

OAKLAND - On the 50th anniversary of his birth, carpenter Percy Honniball was charged with wearing his birthday suit to work.

His preference for working in the nude got him nailed by Oakland police earlier this month, and today the Alameda County District Attorney charged him with misdemeanor indecent exposure.

Honniball reportedly was building a set of bookcases for a Montclair man last October when the man came home and found his carpenter in flagrant deshabille.

The Alameda County District Attorney's office charged him today, which happens to be his birthday, records show.

It isn't the first time Honniball has been in trouble for public nudity.

In Berkeley, Honniball has been cited three times since 2000, but never earned a punishment beyond two years' probation for violating the city's anti-nudity ordinance, said Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, spokeswoman for the Berkeley police.

On May 21, 2003, a Berkeley woman said, she was driving past a parked truck on Sterling Avenue when she saw "a completely naked man" walk out in front of the truck.

The man "stood looking directly at me with his hands at his sides," the woman told police, adding that she went home "feeling startled and stunned by what the guy did."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: nakedcarpenter; putsomeclotheson
I hollered "Don't look, Ethel", but it was too late, . . .
1 posted on 04/21/2006 4:52:21 PM PDT by SmithL
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When your only tool is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.


2 posted on 04/21/2006 4:53:08 PM PDT by SmithL (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: SmithL

Maybe being confronted with plumber's crack isn't so bad after all.


3 posted on 04/21/2006 4:55:32 PM PDT by TenaciousZ
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To: SmithL

Had this guy been in SF, he could have claimed he was exercising his rights of free speech.


4 posted on 04/21/2006 4:55:38 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: SmithL

Why are the people who run around nekked always the people you would never want to see nekked?

5 posted on 04/21/2006 5:01:07 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Ditch the 1967 Outer Space Treaty! I want my own space bar and grill)
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To: SmithL

Percy...HONNIBALL?


6 posted on 04/21/2006 5:01:47 PM PDT by fzx12345 (Three lefts don't make a right; they invent one.)
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To: SmithL
Learned a new word today:

deshabille - the state of being carelessly or partially dressed

7 posted on 04/21/2006 5:14:54 PM PDT by kcar
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To: SmithL

I always charge extra for wearing clothes.My clients are glad to pay it.


8 posted on 04/21/2006 5:17:29 PM PDT by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: kcar

Now pronounce it


9 posted on 04/21/2006 5:57:57 PM PDT by Khepera (Do not remove by penalty of law!)
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Closest I could get to that was this:

n. déshabillé; negligée.

It sounds French, so first, suck a lemon. Don't work, suck lime.

10 posted on 04/21/2006 6:26:32 PM PDT by kcar
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Percy...HONNIBALL?

Right? He didn't have enough luggage carrying that name around? He had to go and get himself a record...

11 posted on 04/22/2006 11:59:57 AM PDT by World'sGoneInsane (LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN, LET NO ONE FORGET)
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To: Khepera

DAY-shawb-bill-LAY, if the acute accents posted in No. 10 are correct.


12 posted on 04/22/2006 12:44:18 PM PDT by fzx12345 (Three lefts don't make a right; they invent one.)
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