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Women could face jail if they expose their nipples in [North Carolina]
Metro [UK] ^ | Jimmy Nsubuga

Posted on 02/17/2013 9:19:50 PM PST by Slings and Arrows

Women who wish to show their nipples in public in North Carolina may be prevented from doing so in the future after politicians proposed new legislation.

Females exposing their breasts could soon be a thing of the past in the US state after representatives put forward House Bill 34 that would make it a felony to show the ‘nipple, or any portion of the areola, of the human female breast’.

One of the main cheerleaders of the new proposal and co-sponsor of the bill, is Republican representative Rayne Brown.

He said: ‘There are communities across this state, there’s local governments across this state, and also local law enforcement for whom this issue is really not a laughing matter.’

A woman could be imprisoned for six months if they were to contravene the law but there would be exemptions for breast feeding.

Rather unfairly, men would also be exempt from the law.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: napl
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To: Slings and Arrows

“Thanks, for the mammaries...”


61 posted on 02/18/2013 2:26:00 AM PST by equaviator (What difference does it make?)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Gee, I hope they never do a movie premier in North Carolina. That could be entrapment for most starlets and some old exhibitionists.


62 posted on 02/18/2013 2:39:48 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Slings and Arrows

Just a guess, but it could be legislation aimed at strip joints.


63 posted on 02/18/2013 2:41:56 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: Terry Mross

You should be able to see at least two.


64 posted on 02/18/2013 2:42:01 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I'm full of all sorts of capitol ideas, today.


65 posted on 02/18/2013 3:10:55 AM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: wyokostur

So much for strip clubs.....


66 posted on 02/18/2013 3:14:40 AM PST by Average Al
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To: Terry Mross

The annual women’s topless rally in Asheville is what perked up the dogooder’s interest in passing a law.

http://www.google.com/webhp?source=search_app#hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=asheville+topless&oq=asheville+topless&gs_l=hp.3...2140.5375.1.5562.19.18.1.0.0.0.188.1475.14j4.18.0.les%3Bernk_timediscounta..0.0...1.1.3.hp.PE1B8_pyjCU&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.eWU&fp=6f96e560ba68ae50&biw=1600&bih=751


67 posted on 02/18/2013 3:26:12 AM PST by Rebelbase ( .223, .224, whatever it takes....)
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To: Slings and Arrows
A link to the actual bill: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H34v0.pdf

The felony aspect of the law:
14 (a1) Unless the conduct is prohibited by another law providing greater punishment, any person at least 18 years of age who shall willfully expose the private parts of his or her person
15 in any public place in the presence of any other person less than 16 years of age for the purpose
16 of arousing or gratifying sexual desire shall be guilty of a Class H felony. An offense
17 committed under this subsection shall not be considered to be a lesser included offense under 18 G.S. 14-202.1.
68 posted on 02/18/2013 3:59:44 AM PST by FreedomOfExpression
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To: jmacusa

On the day they hanged Tojo for war crimes, someone was heard to say,

“Ah, there’s a little nip in the air this morning!”


69 posted on 02/18/2013 4:24:58 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Slings and Arrows

70 posted on 02/18/2013 4:34:58 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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To: TheOldLady

Lot of overlap in those two groups.


71 posted on 02/18/2013 6:21:17 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

the loophole is interesting...what’s the cut off age for feeding from the breast ?


72 posted on 02/18/2013 8:48:37 AM PST by stylin19a
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73 posted on 02/18/2013 9:02:19 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Rebelbase

I figured Asheville would turn up in this story somewhere...


74 posted on 02/18/2013 9:19:46 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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