Made you look!
Posted on 07/21/2009 7:26:26 AM PDT by SmithL
Keep that towel handy. California parks officials can enforce a ban on nudity at any state beach, even in areas that have been informally designated as "clothing optional," a state appeals court says.
The new policy will take effect immediately, although officers will decide whether to warn, cite or arrest violators, said Roy Stearns, spokesman for the state Parks and Recreation Department.
"I'm pretty sure that we will try to tread lightly to get compliance at first," he said Monday, three days after the appellate court in Santa Ana published its ruling as a statewide precedent. "We're not in the business of hassling people. ... Officer discretion will play a role."
Still, he noted, the ruling overturned a 30-year-old policy that had allowed sunbathers and swimmers to bask unclothed in isolated sections of state beaches from San Diego to Eureka. Park rangers intervened only if someone complained, and then would merely tell the nudist to don a swimsuit or leave.
The ruling doesn't apply to federal parkland such as the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes San Francisco's North Baker Beach and several other Bay Area sites frequented by the unclad, or private land such as a portion of Muir Beach in Marin County. The National Park Service does not prohibit nudity on its land, said Chris Powell, spokeswoman for the national recreation area.
But some popular clothing-optional state beaches, such as Gray Whale Cove south of Pacifica and Red Rock Beach in Mount Tamalpais State Park, will be affected.
Lawyers for the Naturist Action Committee, which sued unsuccessfully to preserve a clothing-optional zone at San Onofre State Beach in Orange County, said they would appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court and lobby the Parks and Recreation Department to exercise its long-unused authority to designate...
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Actually, no they can't.
For only those capable of exerting the most force can make their will apparent.
So, for example: if the Chinese military, en mass, decides to enforce the ability for nude bathers to bathe nude at California beaches... then all of California's court opinions mean jack-squat.
:-P
You? You wear woolen long-johns year round...and your back flap is missing a button, LOL! ;)
Made you look!
THAT’S what I’m talkin’ about! ;)
I blame you.
Woolies? OMG! I forgot I had them on; I thought I just had a hairy body.
Well, you would have to. ;-)
Yeah, as if we weren't discouraged enough already.
Good one, Slings.
You’re a little late for your ‘spring shearing’ this year, aren’t ya? ;)
Touche’ ! :)
:)
That would explain my case of Seven Year Itch; guess I can cancel my order for the case of Tinactin cream.
Guess the other good news is that I don’t need a new scrub brush after all; I just thought the current one’s bristles had gone soft.
As cool as it’s been, it’s easy to have not noticed.
Spuds love it, though. Harvested your raspberries yet?
Maybe sometimes...but not while I’m working at the Pet Food Mill (which is where the cats think I spend my day).
Thank’ee, ma’am.
“Harvested your raspberries yet?”
I plowed them under. I’m going to start all over again next spring. Since I went back to work a few years ago, they were neglected. It was the only humane thing to do, LOL!
We added a 30’ row of asparagus, though. Man, I love that stuff!!
Currently harvesting zucchini, basil, green beans, cherry tomatoes, enough cherries this year for TWO pies, early onions, and a few cut flowers for bouquets...food for body AND soul.
Tomatoes, peppers, brussels sprouts, cabbages, more onions coming up later in the season.
700 acres of Sweet Corn around us this year; Hog Heaven come late August. :)
LOL! We say that, too. We tell the dogs when we leave in the morning that we’re ‘going to the Dog Food Mine’ and don’t expect us home until dark!
You gave me the idea. We laugh and laugh....
We’re having a region wide “10 year worst” grasshopper outbreak. Not helping a bit; they ate the late planting of Swiss chard as fast as it sprouted.
A late frost took care of the apricot, plum, and chokecherry buds...glad last year was a bumper season for them.
Cool weather here all season, rarely getting into, let alone above, the high 80’s. Lima beans just gave up,. thought the snow & snap peas loved it. Spuds did too, of course. IF it warms up, the tomatoes & peppers should ripen, and the eggplant flower.
Squash, beans, corn, beets, and carrots doing fine; cauliflower is all cauli and no flower.
Nah, I wear a bath robe - computer is in the detached studio, and the neighbors are nosy when I go running across the yard...
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