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Well, not exactly. :eyes:
The town in question is Brattleboro, Vermont. My home town. It has never been a "clothing-optional" town but if you Google it, you'll find numerous articles about the place that make it sound like the residents all wander around naked to do their grocery shopping.
Jesus christ on a pogo stick. :banghead:
Vermont has never had a public nudity ordinance. A few towns throughout the state have enacted their own but on the whole, the state doesn't really give a shit. People have been sunbathing and gardening and swimming in the rivers naked forever. No one cares.
Then last year, someone got pissed off because a few locals were sitting around a downtown parking lot naked. Well, they lived in one of the buildings, it was hotter than hell and they were trying to cool off. It's not something that happens often but it wasn't illegal (or any big deal to the great majority of people there).
But all it takes is one.
So this person starts a campaign to stop public nudity, the local newspaper picks up the story and runs a "cute" little article, the nationals discover it, the story is transmitted nationwide, growing in leaps and bounds and suddenly, Brattleboro, Vermont is transformed into a place where people gallop around naked all the time. Yesterday, my boyfriend found a reference to the place on a porn site.
I spent 38 years there and never once saw anyone nude anywhere but at the local swimming hole. ~sigh~
So now idiots have decided to go to Brattleboro for the sole purpose of - you guessed it - wandering the streets naked. Some old guy from Arizona elicited complaints when he was bouncing around Main Street in nothing but a fanny pack - he said he decided to vacation there after reading about it on the Internet.
Great. We import loonies.
So now the town has been pretty well forced to enact a ban on public nudity because A. the MSM has to leap all over a (non)story that they think is titillating and B. some fucking idgit has to make a big deal out of it in the first place. :banghead:
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