Posted on 05/16/2007 2:23:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- Spring has arrived in this southeastern Vermont shire town. The trees are less bare, and some local residents are more so. Brattleboro has no ordinance, and Vermont no law, against public nudity. Some of the people who caused a stir last year when they began appearing downtown as nature made them are back.
Not everyone is happy.
Resident Theresa Toney said she was dining at a downtown restaurant when she spotted her first naked person of the spring. She looked out the window "and saw a man in his 60s walking up and down Main Street totally nude," she said. "This is indecent exposure where it doesn't belong."
Toney was one of the most vocal critics of public nudity when young people first started congregating without clothing in a downtown parking lot last year.
This week she was back before the Select Board, demanding to know what the town was going to do "about this behavior."
Audrey Garfield, chairwoman of the board, said she had spoken with the town manager, and that a log of complaints would be compiled.
Some are worried about the town's image.
"How do you want to be viewed as Brattleboro?" asked the Rev. Kevin Horion. "We want to welcome families with small children." Nudists could pop up anywhere, he said. "I am concerned we don't know where they are going to strike."
You may all breathe a sigh of relief. There are no pics to follow.
Nudists create another stir Brattleboro Reformer, VT - 13 hours ago BRATTLEBORO -- It's springtime, when flowers bloom, trees gain a new growth of leaves and sun worshippers take their clothes off in the Harmony Parking Lot. ...
Thank G-D for small miracles.
world gone mad alert.
Brattleboro is a haven for commies, witches, lesbian and homo activists, and other denizens of the extreme left.
There was one moron who walked around with a sandwich sign all last year that said, “Ashamed of Bush”.
Brattleboro is basically a Leftist rathole.
If the Brattleboro Police Dept refuses to arrest these burned out hippie scumbags with some sort of sex crime then the State Police should be sent in.It shouldn’t be difficult for a DA (or the state’s AG) to build such a case.
“There was one moron who walked around with a sandwich sign all last year that said, “Ashamed of Bush”.”
Left to the imagination that this person was male or FEMALE, the jokes just write themselves.
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so that place attracts the strange folks, and/or lunatic fringe elements.
so they had to think of a way to shock people. And they stumbled on the idea of stripping. How wonderful. and they did their research to find that this town didn’t have any restrictions against it, so they may have a lot of southern exposure this summer.
Wonder if they have problems in the winter with this.
I have driven through Brattleboro, VT several times during the summer months. Seems like an archtypical quiet New England town with scenes ideal for picture postcards. It would be about the last place you would think of where public nudists would want to strut their stuff.
“It’s indecent exposure where it doesn’t belong,” oh you can’’t make that up!!
Oh I know how to get the “young” girlies to don their clothing and leave – just stand around leering and making lewd comments. It works when they’re wearing clothing too, by god.
Probably works for guys too…
The Liberal media never talks about why.
Vermont Black Flies and Skeeders.
The nudies come out and run around in the spring until the insects come, and they are no more.
Weenies! ( LOL)
And charge them with what?
There is no law against public nudity in the entire State.
“Brattleboro has no ordinance, and Vermont no law, against public nudity.”
So the State Police wouldn’t do anything either.
It may not help, but it does explain a lot.
And there are no laws against "indecent exposure" in Vermont either?
As a visitor merely driving through the town on vacation, I would hardly believe it. The scenery is still nice, but I suppose that migrants who have recently moved in from sleazier places have caused most of the problems.
You don't know much about Vermont if you think it would work for *all* guys.
Or even *most* guys.
You would be correct.Starting in the 70's hippies flocked to Vermont in such numbers as to result in:
Senator Bernie Sanders..."Independent" Socialist.
Yes, Sanders himself is an “immigrant” from NY. Where in Vermont does he live?
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