Posted on 07/12/2008 8:41:55 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
LAGUNA NIGUEL -- More than 50 law officers were breaking up an estimated 8,000 people drinking alcohol and mooning passing trains late Saturday, as an annual "Moon Over Amtrak" party was shut down due to complaints about public nudity.
The event drew a crowd of about 8,000 Saturday along the tracks near Mugs Away Saloon, 27324 Camino Capistrano, but things got out of hand as businesses and residents called in complaints, said Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino.
California Highway Patrol officers were called in to assist Orange County sheriff's deputies shut down the impromptu event, where thousands of people bared their rear ends to passing Metrolink and Amtrak trains.
"There were complaints about the mooning, women lifting their tops and a couple cases of complete nudity," Amormino said. There were also reports of public alcohol consumption at the event, which has been prohibited in the past.
As of 3:50 p.m., about 50 officers, including some from the California Highway Patrol, were in the process of shutting down the event.
"Traffic congestion is terrible right now, and with all the complaints we decided it was best we shut it down," Amormino said.
No arrests were made.
The event originated in 1979, at the Mugs Away Saloon, a K.T. Smith told friends he would buy a drink for anyone willing to run outside to the rail road tracks and moon the next train. Many of Smith's drinking buddies did, and the mooning tradition lived on -- although no one volunteers to buy drinks for the thousands of mooners who come out.
Me, too.
Can you say "the decay of the United States of America"? And they all laugh as we slouch into Gomorrah day by day.
Oh, lighten up. Find things to laugh at everyday, lest you never find anything funny ever again.
You’re dead if you can’t laugh.
Go peddle it over at D.U. you would have more in common with them over there on this
I’ve posted pictures of a ? 20 year tradition and many of the mooners are waving at the Amtrak passengers.
Jeez, I’m a Texan, and I wish we could do something like this. Well, we actually do, we moon teams’ buses we’re about to compete against (football, track, baseball, basketball) as they pass us on the road or we pass them.
You are either a. unhinged, or b. unaware of this very American pastime.
I agree with you. Lousy juveniles! BTW, I just TP’d your house!
Oh, my!
Not yer typical “Moons Over My Hammie” consumed at Denny’s,
huh???
http://www.dineouthere.com/images/dennys-restaurant.jpg
:^D
But I would like everyone to remember this number so next time the left brags about their “multitudes” they got to a protest we can say “so what. 8,000 people showed up just to moon a train.”
Conservatives Send People to the Moon; Liberals Send Moons to the People.
A bunch of a-holes.
It just boggles my mind that 8,000 people did this, that this is an event to do this type of "coming out" behavior.
Mooning someone you know and who knows you is one thing (vis a vis, an "inside joke"); mooning total strangers is indecent behavior.
But then I really must share my bias - I remember the advent of the "flashers": Naked men running across campus, or across a town. It just gave people more of an excuse to do "naked protests", naked "bicyclists for Piece", and making it harder to take children to events around the SF Bay Area, and because some stupid exhibitionist(s) was demanding all eyes be focused on them.
8,000 people mooning a train. Unbelievably dull and stupid.
While gas is high in price, more trains will be used to transport goods around and across America. This mooning thing is quite a handy tool for the "anti-Americans" to promote.
Really, the train should sport a banner which says: "Okay, whoop-de-doo, we've seen your faces, now show us your A**s." Enter stage left, the Democrats to protest any clampdown on the mooners' "freedom of speech".
Yes, give this matter just one thought, add some years' of experience, and this event is just unbelievably predictably stupid.
When I arrived in SF in 1965 and the Love Children were about, being topless, bralass, or nude -- I didn't see freedom, I saw exhibitionism.
And the more the liberals talked about "sexual freedom" the more I saw perversion, not freedom.
And the same perversion believers think they are on about "sexual freedom". They are not. They have sexual issues which they blame on "America". When the fact is, they are the "sexual problem" of America.
So, fast forward to hot-tub loving Marin County. It wasn't about the zen or sensuality of a good soak; it was about being "trendy" with one's naked body. Communal baths in Japan are for a very sane reason. Community "soaks" in America are for "diversity" in the pursuit of "trendy-ism".
Now that was a nasty crack.
and some here on FR would think this is GOOD>>>>out in public?????/
boy, you and me ruined this thread in NO TIME flat!! ;-)
this is not the America i want.
Look at those saps in the face and listen to them gurgling in drunk blissfulness. just wonderful. wonderfuly country, ain't it? god bless the Orange County sheriffs and other local law enforcement.
Egads, But the real question is... will Democrats "allow" this behavior but require a "carbon footprint" rating be slapped on the left cheek of 8000 mooners?
Literally.
These folks are no different from a flasher in the park. Oh,wait, these folks are drunk ! Yeah, as funny as any other drunk. What’s next, public urination?
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