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Police need to use their sense of humor sometimes.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:51 am
by Intestinal fluids
Boulder's Naked Halloween Streak May Be Coming to an End

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125693458626119361.html

What a brilliant piece of logic this chief of police has.

"Police acknowledge they have not been flooded with pumpkin-run-related complaints, but say that's beside the point. A throng of naked people with jack-o-lanterns on their heads is, by definition, an alarming sight, Chief Beckner says. Therefore, it's illegal."

Oddly enough i looked up definitions of alarming and nowhere did it mention organized fun loving naked people running around with gourds on their heads.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:52 am
by Buffett and Colbert
It's disorderly conduct.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:55 am
by Bears Armed
Intestinal fluids wrote:Boulder's Naked Halloween Streak May Be Coming to an End

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125693458626119361.html

What a brilliant piece of logic this chief of police has.

"Police acknowledge they have not been flooded with pumpkin-run-related complaints, but say that's beside the point. A throng of naked people with jack-o-lanterns on their heads is, by definition, an alarming sight, Chief Beckner says. Therefore, it's illegal."

Oddly enough i looked up definitions of alarming and nowhere did it mention organized fun loving naked people running around with gourds on their heads.

SWAT teams are, by definition, an alarming sight... so they should be illegal... ;)

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:56 am
by Intestinal fluids
Buffett and Colbert wrote:It's disorderly conduct.


How so? How about if they line up in nice straight orderly quiet lines naked with pumpkins on their heads. Is that disorderly too? Or do you just have an anti-gourd agenda?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:57 am
by Conserative Morality
Intestinal fluids wrote:How so? How about if they line up in nice straight orderly quiet lines naked with pumpkins on their heads. Is that disorderly too? Or do you just have an anti-gourd agenda?

The nudity is obviously a symbol of satanism, and as we all know, Satanism corrupts our children, making them disorderly. :)

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:57 am
by Takaram
Intestinal fluids wrote:
Buffett and Colbert wrote:It's disorderly conduct.


How so? How about if they line up in nice straight orderly quiet lines naked with pumpkins on their heads. Is that disorderly too? Or do you just have an anti-gourd agenda?


Actually, I'm pretty sure it is indecent exposure.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:58 am
by Conserative Morality
Takaram wrote:Actually, I'm pretty sure it is indecent exposure.

misdemeanor for anyone to knowingly expose his or her genitals in circumstances "likely to cause affront or alarm."

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:59 am
by Intestinal fluids
Takaram wrote:
Intestinal fluids wrote:
Buffett and Colbert wrote:It's disorderly conduct.


How so? How about if they line up in nice straight orderly quiet lines naked with pumpkins on their heads. Is that disorderly too? Or do you just have an anti-gourd agenda?


Actually, I'm pretty sure it is indecent exposure.


Read the article. Boulder has no public nudity laws.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:59 am
by Lackadaisical2
Buffett and Colbert wrote:It's disorderly conduct.


May haps, but it doesn't seem like the people are actually causing any problems. I'd be a bit different if they're doing it in broad daylight in front of a school, but if its reasonable that anyone who doesn't want to see it won't, let them have their fun.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:59 am
by Free-Beings
Conserative Morality wrote:
Takaram wrote:Actually, I'm pretty sure it is indecent exposure.

misdemeanor for anyone to knowingly expose his or her genitals in circumstances "likely to cause affront or alarm."


So a groupf of people running around neked besides a pumpkin on there head won't cause alarm?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:01 pm
by The Infinite Dunes
SWAT teams? Is he worried that the runner's might return fire with their spunk or something?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:02 pm
by Conserative Morality
Free-Beings wrote:So a groupf of people running around neked besides a pumpkin on there head won't cause alarm?

It would seem to be a town tradition, and, well, no. I see no reason why it would, unless you have nightmares about pumpkins assuming the place of human heads.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:02 pm
by Intestinal fluids
Free-Beings wrote:
Conserative Morality wrote:
Takaram wrote:Actually, I'm pretty sure it is indecent exposure.

misdemeanor for anyone to knowingly expose his or her genitals in circumstances "likely to cause affront or alarm."


So a groupf of people running around neked besides a pumpkin on there head won't cause alarm?


Its an annual organized event. If a 364 day notice that it will happen again next year isnt sufficient advance warning to mitigate alarm, then i dont know what is.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:02 pm
by Lackadaisical2
Free-Beings wrote:
Conserative Morality wrote:
Takaram wrote:Actually, I'm pretty sure it is indecent exposure.

misdemeanor for anyone to knowingly expose his or her genitals in circumstances "likely to cause affront or alarm."


So a groupf of people running around neked besides a pumpkin on there head won't cause alarm?


not if its been happening in the same place at the same time for several years, it'd really be expected.

In fact, the police are alarming me for trying to stop it, I demand that you arrest the boulder police department.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:02 pm
by Maurepas
Douchebags, should do it anyway, on a different route of course...

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:16 pm
by Buffett and Colbert
Intestinal fluids wrote:
Buffett and Colbert wrote:It's disorderly conduct.


How so? How about if they line up in nice straight orderly quiet lines naked with pumpkins on their heads. Is that disorderly too? Or do you just have an anti-gourd agenda?

The fact that they're nude makes it disorderly. But there's a simple solution to this. Do on on private property. Then we can all enjoy the run without the damn cops on our tails! Of course, that does take some of the fun away, no?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:17 pm
by Maurepas
Buffett and Colbert wrote:The fact that they're nude makes it disorderly.

Why?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:19 pm
by Conserative Morality
Buffett and Colbert wrote:The fact that they're nude makes it disorderly.

Explain how nudity is inherently disorderly.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:21 pm
by Maurepas
Conserative Morality wrote:
Buffett and Colbert wrote:The fact that they're nude makes it disorderly.

Explain how nudity is inherently disorderly.

Well...When a mommy and a daddy love eachother very much....

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:23 pm
by Buffett and Colbert
Conserative Morality wrote:
Buffett and Colbert wrote:The fact that they're nude makes it disorderly.

Explain how nudity is inherently disorderly.

In terms of the law, that is. I should have said disorderly conduct.
http://www.nudist-resorts.org/statutes.htm

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:28 pm
by Conserative Morality
Buffett and Colbert wrote:In terms of the law, that is. I should have said disorderly conduct.
http://www.nudist-resorts.org/statutes.htm

It's not illegal to be naked in downtown Boulder. In fact, the city has had a long, proud history of nudity.


Let me reinforce that...

It's not illegal to be naked in downtown Boulder.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:30 pm
by Aelosia
The "Therefore, it is illegal" part is a classic.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:36 pm
by Bears Armed
What I really don't understand about this is how the people involved could possibly be threatened with being placed on a register of 'sex offenders', if 'disorderly conduct' would be the only offence with which they'd be charged...

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:40 pm
by Lunatic Goofballs
Buffett and Colbert wrote:It's disorderly conduct.


Not if they run in formation. Then it's quite orderly. :D

PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:43 pm
by Tunizcha
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:
Buffett and Colbert wrote:It's disorderly conduct.


Not if they run in formation. Then it's quite orderly. :D


LG for Boulder Police Department Sheriff.