Nude: None of your clothes are on
Nekkid: All your clothes are off and you're looking for trouble.
Posted on 07/21/2009 7:26:26 AM PDT by SmithL
Keep that towel handy. California parks officials can enforce a ban on nudity at any state beach, even in areas that have been informally designated as "clothing optional," a state appeals court says.
The new policy will take effect immediately, although officers will decide whether to warn, cite or arrest violators, said Roy Stearns, spokesman for the state Parks and Recreation Department.
"I'm pretty sure that we will try to tread lightly to get compliance at first," he said Monday, three days after the appellate court in Santa Ana published its ruling as a statewide precedent. "We're not in the business of hassling people. ... Officer discretion will play a role."
Still, he noted, the ruling overturned a 30-year-old policy that had allowed sunbathers and swimmers to bask unclothed in isolated sections of state beaches from San Diego to Eureka. Park rangers intervened only if someone complained, and then would merely tell the nudist to don a swimsuit or leave.
The ruling doesn't apply to federal parkland such as the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes San Francisco's North Baker Beach and several other Bay Area sites frequented by the unclad, or private land such as a portion of Muir Beach in Marin County. The National Park Service does not prohibit nudity on its land, said Chris Powell, spokeswoman for the national recreation area.
But some popular clothing-optional state beaches, such as Gray Whale Cove south of Pacifica and Red Rock Beach in Mount Tamalpais State Park, will be affected.
Lawyers for the Naturist Action Committee, which sued unsuccessfully to preserve a clothing-optional zone at San Onofre State Beach in Orange County, said they would appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court and lobby the Parks and Recreation Department to exercise its long-unused authority to designate...
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The Cubs seemed pretty unfazed by it all. On the way home, we had our first little talk about things you see in San Francisco may not be acceptable in the rest of the Country.
The campout occurred in the early `90s, and I saw jewelry in places I hadn’t even imagined before.
My guess is that, depending on how good looking the person is will determine if they get a warning, a citation, or arrested!! LOL!!!
Whaaaaaaat?
You mean I'm nekkid at work?
Oh my!
Save the economy-—buy a bathing suit!
I say designate one beach for those liberals who
must swim in the nude and tax them royally for it, eheheheh! Good little socialists won’t mind anyhow so soak ‘em like they wish it on others.
Actually if you market it correctly, you could turn it into the latest trendy thing and a status symbol. Market it as “edgy” and “in your face” and set up specialized zones and the celebs will pay hand over fist.
LOL — that would make a good tag line!
Sounds like they plan on using our guilty/not guilty rules. ; )
Naked: All of your clothes are off
Nude: None of your clothes are on
Probably not, the majority, if not all, of nude beaches in Calif. are dominated by homos. Public depravity is common.
Nekkid: All your clothes are off and you're looking for trouble.
Fire Island (NY) and Sandy Hook (NJ) both have nude beaches, despite being under the auspices of the National Park Service.
How'd ya know? I doesn't gots no Webcam!
Who're the other nine? (Just want to see if it matches my list.)
“I usually FReep in my asbestos undies.”
You need to, LOL! :)
I didn’t want to post ‘naked’ because this IS a Family-Friendly Site.
Well, except for all the nudity, LOL! ;)
You’re on the list! ;)
I’m thinking you, patton, most definitely Laz, martin fierro, joe six pack...just off top, LOL!
The boys gotta learn about it somewhere, Smithy! ;)
“Naked: You have no clothes on. Nekkid: You have no clothes on and you’re up to something.” ~ Lewis Grizzard
Thank you! Finally someone ‘gets’ me! :)
Wisconsin has one. I’ve seen it with my own eyes while canoing down the Wisconsin River. Mostly gay men parading their junk. Go figure. *SNORT*
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/9011/mazo.html
Yes, all good things have rules and here they are:
No sexual conduct on the beach (Right! That NEVER happens; you can tell it never happens by the truckloads of used condoms cleaned up each week!)
No glass allowed on the beach (Obviously!)
You must not be seen nude from the parking lot (Why spoil the fun?)
Before taking someone’s picture ask thier permission (I did not correct spelling mistakes; and really, what fun is having nude pictures if someone says it’s OK?)
Pick up your garbage and dispose of it properly (Dispose of each other, Freaks!
Pets are allowed, but you must clean up after them (I won’t even go there!)
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