Brattleboro, Vermont, has a problem . . . the city doesn’t specifically have any public ordinances against being nude in public and there is no state law against it . . . so, when large groups of naked young people started congregating in a parking lot, the prudes who don’t want any naked people in their town freaked out . . . Nude people in town center could prompt ban . . . large groups of folks standing around naked in parking lots? We need a few parking lots like that in Taipei.

I imagine the ban on public nudity will get passed pretty quick (some places have even started banning men going shirtless in public) but wouldn’t it be interesting if it didn’t pass? Nifty.

Quite clever of the pro-naked folks finding the loophole and exploiting it . . . remember, these are just naked folks, we’re not talking about orgies or anything like that. The protest by the five guys who went to City Hall and stripped was humorous fairplay at its best. Since legally they can strip in that particular city, when the city government began stirring things to deprive them of the spot they chose to limit their activities to, the public protest taking the issue to City Hall was irony at its best.

Unfortunately, I predict they will have clothes on before December . . . then again, it gets pretty cold in Vermont in December so they’ll probably not be pushing the issue of naked folk so much (anyone running around naked in Vermont snow drifts has more going on than a freedom of self-expression issue . . . dangly bits will start freezing off).

Anyway . . . if there are any naked parking lots in Taipei, be sure to clue us in on where they are.