Less Gas, More Ass!(World Naked Bike Ride Abandons Underwear To Protest Oil Dependency,Iraq War)

ColoradoDailyNews ^ | Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:57 PM MDT | PAULA PANT Colorado Daily Staff Writer

[fight_truth_decay]

Dozens on Saturday were slathering sunscreen where the sun doesn't usually shine. Boulder residents participated in the third annual naked bike ride as part of World Naked Bike Ride, an international mass of cyclists who, each June, abandon their underwear to protest oil dependency while having some summertime fun.

“A guy (said) last night, ‘why protest if you don't get noticed,'” said Scot Colburn, 39, who moderates the group's email list.

Wearing nothing but a topaz bicycling helmet and New Balance shoes, Colburn said, “this is a good way to get noticed.”

The group - which “disorganizers” counted at 58 people, about three-quarters male - attracted applause, cheers, whistles and honks as they cruised down Pearl Street, through Eben G. Fine park and along the Boulder Creek path.

Locals lunching at outdoor cafes gaped, residents shopping in downtown stores ran outside to catch a glimpse, and groups of friends floating down Boulder Creek on inner tubes stopped dead in their tracks, standing up mid-water and craning their necks for a better glimpse.

Traffic slowed as drivers laughed, honked, and rolled down their windows to high-five the cyclists.

All across town bystanders captured the scene on their cell phone cameras.

One man in a red shirt, standing next to his sport utility vehicle on 18th and Pearl with a child in a stroller by his side, took a photo from his cell phone.

“Peace through naked cycling!” one cruiser yelled at the impromptu photographer.

“Right on!” the spectator responded.

Conspicuously missing from the mix were the police, who stopped the cyclists last year but did not issue any tickets.

No police officials stopped the nudists during the first two hours of their ride, which included a nude swim in Boulder Creek.

[fight_truth_decay]

I'm getting confused here. Aren't there laws against indecent exposure? Or is it okay to flash kids, now?

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"In Boulder it is illegal to publicly expose genitals for the purpose of sexual gratification, though an officer who interrupted the ride last year said that it would be hard to show that this ride was sexually motivated."

The rest of the story.
http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2006/06/17/news/c_u_and_boulder/news1.txt

[upchuck]

Also excerpted, as I may be pushing the "freedom of speech" limits in FR ! ;)

Nope. Colorado Daily News is not on Jim Rob's no no list.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...Colburn said, “this is a good way to get noticed.”...it's tough when you get older and can't get attention anymore by being class clown - you're reduced to taking up crackpot causes and riding your bicycle naked.....

[dersepp]

Alert!

Alert!

FReeper with Super Soakers Alert!!

Let us go next year and rain on their parade with Super Soakers filed with ice water.

[Toidylop]

Alouette,
I'm glad I've just had dinner!!! Geez...

[Windcatcher]

Nah. Use soda, and not the diet kind. Bees love sugar >:)

[goldstategop]

The only thing liberals haven't tried yet is to have sex in public. I'm waiting for them to shatter the last social taboo.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[fight_truth_decay]

The only thing liberals haven't tried yet is to have sex in public. I'm waiting for them to shatter the last social taboo.

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Taboo shattered!

For the rainforest
The young couple, Tommy Hol Ellingsen, age 28, and Leona Johansson, age 21, are members of the environmental organization «*&%!! (word removed) for Forest.» They have sex in public in order to put focus on the rainforest.
http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article250240.ece

[grey_whiskers]

It made my Daily Political Limerick.

Talk about your 15 femtoseconds of fame :-)

Full Disclosure: Someday I'll learn how to type the word "example" correctly.

Cheers!

[NonLinear]

No wonder "Wee Willie Winkie" went gay. Who would know the difference? Or maybe the water was really cold....

[claudiustg]

What a bunch of numnuts.

[RandallFlagg]

[goldstategop]

So charming.... this is what you get from a society in which there is an absence of shame. The reason people have sex in private is true lovemaking is very much an intimate form of communication that no outsider will every understand. A man and a woman in love have a unique language that is beautiful in its own right. The public display of it reduces it to a mere exercise in ponographic uglification. So there you have what it means to live in a society where there is an absence of shame when the taboo on sex in public is gone.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[Fairview]

On the other hand there was at least one who looked good with his clothes off. I'm sure he was gay.

Is that fair, view????

I don't know for sure that he was gay, just reflecting on the general injustice of life. You know that any man at a gathering like that who is remotely attractive with his clothes off has to be either gay or weird. I mean, a normal man does not have a need to show off like that.

[garyhope]

I don't want to even begin to think about the seats. No thank you.

[jblair]

I feel genuine pity for one of the older gentleman in the ride pics. This is rude, but really, there are babies being born as I type who put him to shame. This event represents a choice, on his part, more egregious than his fellows'.

[WellsFargo94]

Let us go next year and rain on their parade with Super Soakers filed with ice water.

Oh, hilarious!!! But watch out, they are not concerned about damaging young children with there nudity, but they will be the first to file assult charges against Freepers!

[Calpernia]

How on earth does one ride a bike with no pants??!!!

[democrats_nightmare]

Soviet Boulder is 50 square miles surrounded by reality ;-)

[Calpernia]

Actually, they have started pushing that envelope too. Some 'art display' with two gay guys in NYC.