Posted on 07/19/2005 5:20:08 AM PDT by QwertyKPH
A nude walker has been arrested a month into his latest bid to walk across Britain unclothed. Stephen Gough, 46, of Bournemouth, left Land's End on 16 June with 33-year-old girlfriend Melanie Roberts, also of Bournemouth, and an unnamed librarian.
Police said they arrested two men and a woman on Monday near Quina Brook in Shropshire after receiving a complaint.
All three are charged with causing a breach of the peace and are due before Shrewsbury magistrates on Tuesday.
A West Mercia Police spokesman said: "We had a call from a member of the public that there were some naked people near Wem.
"When we found them we asked them to cover up, but they refused. We had no choice but to arrest them."
He said that the trio were all detained on suspicion of indecent exposure.
Challenging attitudes
Mr Gough, originally from Eastleigh in Hampshire, was arrested 14 times and served two jail sentences during an unclothed trek from Land's End to John O'Groats in 2003/04.
As he set off with his two friends on the same 887-mile walk last month, Mr Gough, a former marine, accepted they ran the risk of arrest.
It is the first time the trio have been detained since they began their journey.
The two-month trek across Britain is intended to challenge people's attitudes to public nudity, something which Mr Gough believes should be a basic human right.
Nekkid rambling ping
"Suspicion of indecent exposure." How long do they have to look in order to confirm the suspicion?
"We had a call from a member ...."
Perhaps not the best way to phrase this.
LOL
"Ga'blimey...'E's naked!...Arrest 'im!"
Can the BBC spell EXHIBITIONIST?
"Ga'blimey...'E's naked!...Arrest 'im!"
Haha!
Further proof of my long-held belief that there are some things one just DOESN'T want to see....
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feeling
I'm naked again.
Those whacky libertarians... Oh wait...
As became abundantly clear during his earlier end-to-end trek, an eccentric in the honourable English tradition yes, a pervert and a flasher no. Apart from anything else, it's difficult to see how any event which continues without interruption for several months can be described, in any sense of the word, as a 'flash'.
Ya think?
they call it the streak
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