Alarmed by glimpses of sweaty citizens in the buff, the city council in the southeastern city of Villahermosa has adopted a law banning indoor nudity, officials confirmed Wednesday.
"Yeah. Nobody wants to see that stuff!"
The regulation, which takes effect on Jan. 1, calls for as much as 36 hours in jail or a fine of 1,356 pesos ($121) for offenders in the Tabasco state capital, 410 miles east of Mexico City. "We are talking about zero tolerance ... for a lack of morality," said city councilwoman Blanca Estela Pulido of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, which governs the state and city.
Esthetics, I could understand. Moral reasons make me yawn.
Opposition party councilman Rodrigo Sanchez said in an interview that the measure, part of a larger series of prohibitions, "tramples on the rights of the citizens by taking laughable measures such as contemplating penalties for citizens who walk around nude inside their houses. I have no idea how you detect the naked. You'd have to have a big operation to try to bring it under control."
I actually have a pretty good handle on detecting the nekkid. I compare what they're wearing with what I'm wearing. If I'm nekkid — and years of close observation have taught me when I am — and they're wearing the same thing, they're nekkid.
Pulido said she was confident that citizens who catch a glimpse of offenders would report them to police -- though the law also threatens jail for peeping Toms. Can't win, either way....
"I'd like to report a crime!"
"Okay. Book him, Danno!"
The city on the southern Gulf of Mexico is noted for its swelteringly hot, humid climate. "The majority of houses have a lot of ventilation, and we give ourselves the luxury of going naked," Pulido said. "Because we walk past the windows, you see a lot of things." I guess no one there has ever heard of drapes?
Drapes block the ventilation ...
When I was a tad of 11, I went out one summer's day to make some money by offering to cut people's grass. I knocked on a lady's door, heard her moving around inside, and had a peek through the window next to the door to see if she was coming. She was reaching for her housecoat or whatever, and she was naked as an egg. A 300-pound egg, in fact. With lotsa body hair. Being a peeping Tom has its occupational hazards.
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"Pulido said she was confident that citizens who catch a glimpse of offenders would report them to police -- though the law also threatens jail for peeping Toms."
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Heh, CH - I loved the scene with the old Italian guy, lol! Catch-22: A concept so pure, so serenely clear and obvious, it will probably be the obituary for "modern" society.
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