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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