Mannequin's wardrobe malfunction draws complaints

[mugley]

Mannequin's wardrobe malfunction draws complaints
Posted: 4:24 p.m. yesterday
BEATRICE, Neb. &mdashResidents who complained about a nearly naked female store mannequin prompted police to conceal the window display and stirred a debate about obscenity. Police covered the window at Hannah's Treasures for about a day last week after several people in the southeast Nebraska city of 12,500 complained about the mannequin with a pair of pants around its ankles and wearing shoes but no other clothing.

City Attorney Tobias Tempelmeyer said Monday he had yet to receive all the police reports on the semi-naked mannequin.

"We're not able at this point to issue a determination whether it's obscene or not," Tempelmeyer said.

The owner of the closed shop later dressed the offending mannequin in a bikini.

Store owner Kevin Kramer's lawyer, Dustin Garrison, didn't immediately respond to a message Monday, but he told the Beatrice Daily Sun that Kramer might sue over the dispute.

"Nothing about a naked mannequin constitutes obscenity," Garrison said to the Beatrice Daily Sun. "I think we've all gone into a department store and seen a naked mannequin at one point in our lives."

Kramer said the shop in Beatrice was closed because he was in the process of moving his business to Lincoln.

Tempelmeyer said the dispute was resolved amicably, and that he was OK with the mannequin wearing a bikini.

[cerina]

What the is the matter with people?

[Jack Flash]

There are a lot of people that have a phobia of nudity. Recently we were looking at a piece of software ( had already determined that it wouldn't work) and the person who wrote the program asked us not to use it because the forum includes an optional nudity section.

Over millions of years evolution, the attractiveness of the opposite sex has been reinforced in our psyche to aid in procreation. But, in the last few hundred years the mantra has been "cover it up - nudity is evil"

(creation version) God created men and women in his image and saw that it was good. We must hide God's work!

(Westboro Baptist church version) God hates you and made you from soft jiggly parts that must be covered up or you are going to Hell.

Calvin's version

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[cerina]

There's a lot to be said for Calvinism.

[Jack Flash]

I bet that if there were less "cover it up" we would all take better care of ourselves,watch what we eat, and exercise more