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OAKLAND - Most carpenters work in coveralls or at least pants and a shirt. Police say Percy Honniball prefers to do his work in his birthday suit. ``It's more comfortable,'' said Honniball in a phone interview Thursday. ``The primary reason is so I (won't) dirty my clothes and have to get into my truck with dusty clothes on.'' But not everyone is tolerant of nude carpenters. A Montclair homeowner called police when he arrived home early and found the worker buck naked. ``He got upset and he said `You have to leave,' '' Honniball said of the incident last October....

Beaumont police conducting a sting at Tyrrell Park trying to stop indecency at public parks arrested Doak Lamb, the principal at Woodcrest Elementary School in Port Neches after he requested anal sex from undercover officers. According to the officers, who were patroling the park and going into and out of the public buildings there, Lamb responded to officers advances but rejected oral sex, instead saying that he preferred anal sex and had brought his own condoms. During a search of Lamb as he was being arrested, a condom fell out of his front left pocket. When asked if he had...

Minister resigns following arrest WICHITA FALLS (AP) - A church music minister has resigned after being charged with exposing himself to another man at a rest stop. Ricky Steven Gates, 36, was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure, a misdemeanor, following an incident last week in Montague County, authorities said. The pastor at First Baptist Church of Bowie accepted Gates' resignation Monday after addressing the allegations in church Sunday. Andra Gates, the former music minister's wife, said she and her husband declined to comment. Montague County sheriff's deputies said a man posting fliers at a rest stop near Sunset...

WASHINGTON - Acquitting a Germantown man who exposed his buttocks during an argument with a neighbor, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled yesterday that mooning, while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland. "If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," Judge John W. Debelius III said after the bench trial, reversing the ruling of a District Court judge. Debelius made clear his disdain for the defendant, calling the alleged act "disgusting" and "demeaning." The outcome could have been different, he suggested, if the...

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - It's considered disgusting in most quarters, but a Montgomery County (website - news) appellate judge has ruled that "mooning" someone isn't illegal. The defendant, 44-year-old Raymond McNealy of Germantown, was charged with indecent exposure after exposing part of his buttocks to his neighbor and her eight-year-old daughter following an argument. A lower court found McNealy guilty. He faced up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine, but he appealed. Circuit Court judge John Debelius ruled Tuesday that McNealy didn't commit a crime. He said if what McNealy did was indecent exposure, then "any woman...

WASHINGTON - Acquitting a Germantown man who exposed his buttocks during an argument with a neighbor, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled yesterday that mooning, while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland. "If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," Judge John W. Debelius III said after the bench trial, reversing the ruling of a District Court judge. Debelius made clear his disdain for the defendant, calling the alleged act "disgusting" and "demeaning." The outcome could have been different, he suggested, if the...

Is it legal to be nude on a beach in Hawaii? A ruling by the Supreme Court of Hawaii suggest that indeed it just may be, or at the very least it is not, "indecent exposure" under the Hawaii Revised Statutes. On October 18, 1998, six men were arrested for being nude on Polo beach at Makaleha Beach Park. A beach popular on Oahu as a nude beach. All were charged and convicted of violating HRS 707-734 renamed Indecent exposure and redefined in 1993. HRS 707-734 Indecent exposure. (1) A person commits the offense of indecent exposure if, the person...

Pantsless in Oklahoma Make Believe drummer Nate Kinsella is facing up to ten years in prison and $20,000 in fines for letting it all hang out at a Christian rock show. Make Believe drummer Nate Kinsella probably wishes he'd kept his pants on. According to a police affidavit, at a Christian rock venue in Oklahoma in June he dropped his shorts in front of the crowd, then wrung the sweat from them over the heads of audience members. He's now facing a charge of indecent exposure, a felony that carries penalties of up to $20,000 in fines and ten years...

RALEIGH -- Police arrested a woman Thursday, thinking she lifted her dress and exposed herself to an assistant high school principal, according to reports. Donna Maria Thomas, 42, of 1619 Trently Court was charged with indecent exposure, simple assault, communicating threats and harassing a police officer over the telephone. She was in the Wake County jail Thursday night in lieu of $2,000 bail. Her daughter attends Millbrook High School, where Darnell Bethel is an assistant principal, said Jim Sughrue, spokesman for the Raleigh Police Department. There have been past disputes between Thomas and school officials, he said. Police think she...

Appeals court upholds TV producer's indecent exposure conviction 5/12/2005, 5:35 a.m. ET The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the indecent exposure conviction of the producer and host of a comedy show on Grand Rapids' public access cable channel. Timothy Huffman, 47, was convicted of misdemeanor indecent exposure in Kent County in January 2003. He was charged after a viewer complained about a sketch that aired April 7, 2000 on "Tim's Area of Control" on the GRTV channel. The three-minute segment consisted of a full-screen close-up of a man's genitals displayed in front of...

(11/30/04 - REGINA, Saskatchewan) — A real cowboy is never caught without his boots, but his pants are another matter. Police in Regina, Saskatchewan, found a bare-butted cowboy hanging from a fence. It seems the Canadian cowpoke had a little too much to drink at an agriculture festival Saturday night. He tried climbing an eight-foot-tall fence but snagged a pant leg, leaving him dangling upside down. He dropped his cell phone, too. Police say he unzipped his pants to get free, but discovered he couldn't get them off. He eventually reached the phone's keypad and dialed 911. Officers found the...

Memo to Alexandra Kerry: Next Time Try Underwear! Those Kerry daughters! What will they do next to help their dad’s campaign? Back in March, 27-year-old Vanessa Kerry, weighing in on foreign policy, opined out of nowhere that George W. Bush had orchestrated the ouster of Haitian former president/Marxist dictator Jean-Bertrande Aristide. (Her father loyally backed her up, saying he’d heard the same thing from "a very close friend in Massachusetts who talked directly to people who have made that allegation." Oh really? Only double hearsay, as The Free Republic noted.) Vanessa, by the way, is in charge of the "youthquake"...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- There's a topless protest being planned this weekend in Daytona Beach, at the end of Bike Week. Liz Book of Ormond Beach is among the organizers. She hopes to lead a thousand "top-free" women and men along a half-mile of Main Street from the pier to the bridge. The goal is to add Daytona Beach to the small but growing list of places that allow women to show their breasts openly, just like men. Even if only two people join her protest, she plans to still go through with it. City officials and police are mostly...

NEW YORK - CBS apologized for an unexpectedly R-rated end to its Super Bowl halftime show, when singer Justin Timberlake (news) tore off part of Janet Jackson (news)'s top, exposing her breast.The two singers were performing a flirtatious duet to end the halftime show, and at the song's finish, Timberlake reached across Jackson's leather gladiator outfit and pulled off the covering to her right breast.The network quickly cut away from the shot, and did not mention the incident on the air.Timberlake said he did not intend to expose Jackson's breast."I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction...

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou040201_jt_jackson.748494e6.html#poll Tell Us: Your thoughts on the halftime show Outrageous. Jackson, Timberlake should face charges Unfortunate. Accident or planned it was inappropriate Overblown. Don't think it was that big of a deal Different. Never seen anything like it. Fantastic. Most memorable, entertaining halftime show ever.

Statement by NFL Executive Vice President Joe Browne regarding the Super Bowl halftime show: "We were extremely disappointed by elements of the MTV-produced Halftime show. They were totally inconsistent with assurances our office was given about the show. It's unlikely that MTV will produce another Super Bowl halftime."

First I read this on Drudge:MTV Statement on Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Incident Sunday February 1, 11:03 pm ET HOUSTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The tearing of Janet Jackson's costume was unrehearsed, unplanned, completely unintentional and was inconsistent with assurances we had about the content of the performance. MTV regrets this incident occurred and we apologize to anyone who was offended by it. Then I went on MTV's website and I found this: Who's Kidding whom here? Janet Jackson Got Nasty at the MTV-Produced Super Bowl Halftime Show Jaws across the country hit the carpet at exactly the same time....

<p>Moderator note: Do not post the photo, links are fine.</p> <p>Did anyone else see if Justin Timberlake pulled off Janet Jackson's top?</p>

"I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance of the Super Bowl," Timberlake said in a statement. "It was not intentional and is regrettable." Developing...

NEW YORK (AP) - CBS apologized on Sunday for an unexpectedly R-rated end to its Super Bowl halftime show, when singer Justin Timberlake tore off part of Janet Jackson's top, exposing her breast. ``CBS deeply regrets the incident,'' spokeswoman Leslie Anne Wade said after the network received several calls about the show.The two singers were performing a flirtatious duet to end the halftime show, and at the song's finish, Timberlake reached across Jackson's leather gladiator outfit and pulled off the covering to her right breast.The network quickly cut away from the shot, and did not mention the incident on the...