Posted on 03/23/2007 5:14:18 PM PDT by Ellesu
SALEM, Ore. - Supporters of a bill being considered by state lawmakers say it would close a loophole in the state's private indecency law.
House Bill 3317 would amend the law by making exposure illegal when it is in view of a place where another person has an expectation of privacy.
For instance, it would make it illegal to run around your yard naked in view of others.
That is what Rainier's so-called "naked neighbor" Jimmy "Mack" McKenzie has been doing for years.
A Team 2 investigation on McKenzie's nude - and some would say lewd - behavior outside his home drew national attention. The 59-year-old was caught on video walking around his yard naked. But the sheriff's department and district attorney said he did not break the law - even if he was in full view of children.
Currently Oregon has two nudity laws: public indecency and private indecency.
But neither addresses a neighbor exposing himself or herself to another person when both people are on private property.
"We wouldn't want a situation where people are doing things that are really in conflict with community standards," said Rep. Greg MacPherson, a Lake Oswego Democrat who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, which is considering the bill. "And just because they are standing on their own property, that it isn't against the law."
D.J. Darco is a victim in an unrelated indecent exposure case that couldn't be prosecuted under Oregon law. She is also a longtime advocate for changing the law. She said she hopes the legislature makes acts like McKenzie's illegal.
"We want a simplified law," she said. "A law that is simple to prosecute these people when we need to."
They said "crack."
Only attractive people (and we all know who those are) are allowed to be naked in public.
There, that should do it.
I would never run around naked in my yard, but I don't think the government needs to get involved in this. Stick to running the government. Cut budgets!!!!
Nice women should be first, though.
If they outlaw nudity, only outlaws will be nude.
I'm 50 y.o. and no one in my family has ever been naked.
Just say "No" to Crack.
Damn, I thought they were upset at my naked trampoline jumping above fence level because I wasn't wearing a helmet. Why didn't I think of the children!?
Embarrassed to have company over? to entertain outdoors?
Solution: Invite a crowd of women over, really cute, young women. He gives you eyesight pollution; you give him noise pollution. Make sure their "critique" of your nature loving neighbor's body flaws can be heard. The volume of the barbs can be aided with liberal application of alchohol to your guests. Let him hear you "defend" his honor as a good neighbor should with such kind remarks as, "Look, I'm sure it'll happen to ALL of us...eventually..." and "Pshaw, that's probably from whatever he was sitting on before he came outside."
How about simply making nudity illegal when:
OK! OK, I see your point!!!
I really can't help it I was born that way.
My questions...Why is Santa naked, and why is he holding binoculars? And did Jane Goodall snap that photo of him in the wild in the first place? LOL!
That does it! I'm going outside naked!
(as soon as it gets dark)
http://www.katu.com/news/5839256.html
more pics here:)
No, thanks. Just had my dinner. ;)
50 years of sponge baths?
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