While reading this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14649394
I was surprised to hear that Steven Gough (the 'naked rambler') has " been behind bars in Scotland for much of the past decade.", seemingly exclusively due to his penchant for airing his balls in public. I previously had no idea that walking around outside with no clothes on was such a serious offence that it could get you 21 month prison terms - as far as I can see, being naked doesn't harm anybody, and unless you're making threatening advances on someone else while naked or something (which doesn't appear to have happened in this case), I can't really see the harm in getting naked in public. Anyway, prison certainly doesn't seem to have changed this guys mind, so I wonder what good it really does locking him up, spending countless thousands on him, just so that other people don't get the opportunity to admire the human form.
Another aspect that seems unfair is that there don't seem to be any hard and fast guidelines on what is acceptable, which means if you fancy going outside and getting the maximum possible vitamin D dose while doing the shopping, there is no way to predict what will actually land you in jail, and what will merely cause some awkward conversation with the cashier. (I really wonder what the limit is - would he have been arrested if he covered the end of his willy with a finger puppet? or would a G-string be more appropriate?) It seems a bit unfair that the judgement by someone else.
Anyway, I was just very surprised that in this supposedly 'free' country you can't walk down the high street or into court in your birthday suit without incurring what seems to me to be a very lengthy sentence. After all, as the ancient saying goes, 'we've all got one!' (or at least half of us do, and I'm sure most of the other half will have seen a willy before anyway).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14649394
I was surprised to hear that Steven Gough (the 'naked rambler') has " been behind bars in Scotland for much of the past decade.", seemingly exclusively due to his penchant for airing his balls in public. I previously had no idea that walking around outside with no clothes on was such a serious offence that it could get you 21 month prison terms - as far as I can see, being naked doesn't harm anybody, and unless you're making threatening advances on someone else while naked or something (which doesn't appear to have happened in this case), I can't really see the harm in getting naked in public. Anyway, prison certainly doesn't seem to have changed this guys mind, so I wonder what good it really does locking him up, spending countless thousands on him, just so that other people don't get the opportunity to admire the human form.
Another aspect that seems unfair is that there don't seem to be any hard and fast guidelines on what is acceptable, which means if you fancy going outside and getting the maximum possible vitamin D dose while doing the shopping, there is no way to predict what will actually land you in jail, and what will merely cause some awkward conversation with the cashier. (I really wonder what the limit is - would he have been arrested if he covered the end of his willy with a finger puppet? or would a G-string be more appropriate?) It seems a bit unfair that the judgement by someone else.
Anyway, I was just very surprised that in this supposedly 'free' country you can't walk down the high street or into court in your birthday suit without incurring what seems to me to be a very lengthy sentence. After all, as the ancient saying goes, 'we've all got one!' (or at least half of us do, and I'm sure most of the other half will have seen a willy before anyway).
