A male judge would have handled this totally different. "I need to see you in my chambers..."
only a klinton appointee.......
A Bend woman took her bike for a ride on Tuesday evening and not much else.
The 26-year-old nude bike rider caused quite a stir among drivers and pedestrians leaving Downtown Bend about 5 p.m.
“I saw her whole body in my rear view mirror, and I thought, boy, that person’s clothes are the same color as her skin,” said Julie Zeidman, who was waiting at a red light at the intersection of Greenwood Avenue and Bond Street. “Then I turned around and saw her bottom and knew she was naked.
“Yesterday, was such a horrible day with the tragedy (in New York and Washington D.C.), it was actually kind of refreshing to have that happen,” Zeidman said. “It made me laugh. I was like whoa, yeah.”
The rider was described by eyewitnesses as a brunette, about 5 feet 4 inches tall, 130 pounds with nothing on more than red cowboy boots and a knit hat.
Bend Police officer Mike Hartman contacted Terri Sue Webb near her home in the downtown area after a caller reported her to Deschutes County 911.
“She was very friendly,” Hartman said. “She said she was just trying to celebrate life and did not mean to offend anybody.”
Hartman said the woman went to her residence and put a skirt on after he arrived but then came back out of the home without a top.
Hartman said he charged her with no wrongdoing since no one filed a formal complaint. He did advise her that if she caused traffic problems again, he would arrest her.
It was not her first brush with the law. On July 18, Webb was cited for disorderly conduct by Bend police for taking a ride in the buff in the same pair of red cowboy boots near Drake Park. Hartman said she nearly caused some traffic accidents that day as drivers diverted their eyes from the road.
According to the indictment against her, Webb, 26, caused the public inconvenience, annoyance and alarm by obstructing vehicular traffic on Brooks Street. She pleaded not guilty last week and is set to go to trial on Nov. 7.
Webb could not be reached for comment.
“I don’t believe it is a good charge,” said her attorney Alana Brenneman. “It’s not a disorderly conduct. Her actions did not cause the public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm. Regardless of her First Amendment rights, her actions do not fit that statutory definition.
“She obviously believes in what she is doing,” Brenneman said. “It’s an expression of speech for her.” However, the attorney was not sure what her client was trying to say.
“I’ve had to defend a disorderly conduct before,” she said. “The facts in this one are a little more unusual. But that has no bearing on the strength of this case.”
Jenifer Diener said she saw Webb riding her bike while trying to cross Oregon Street behind the Deschutes County Justice Building.
“The first thing I thought was no way,” the court clerk said. “I said, ‘Oh my God, she really is’ and my mouth dropped open, and I had this incredulous look on my face and that even made her grin more. Then it crossed my mind, could I ever do that? It’s got to be this sense of freedom you enjoy for a short period of time.
“I don’t think I could do it,” Diener said. “So I do give her points for bravery.”