quote:Jerome Mason, 23, six feet tall and 200 pounds, was charged with indecent exposure after going topless on a city street early in the morning of April 22.
"This complaint is based on Arrested exposed his breasts in public," the police report states.
It's not clear whether Mason's "full set" came about naturally or artificially.
In a medical condition called gynecomastia, men grow female-shaped breasts; however, a series of mug shots of Mason posted on WCPO-TV's Web site shows the arrested man's hair gradually growing longer and more feminine, culminating in a chin-length bob.
Whatever the size or shape of Mason's breasts, he shouldn't have been arrested, argued defense attorney Michael Welsh.
This is somewhat disturbingly hilarious.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
I think any law which states that a man can have his shirt off in public and a woman can't is all sorts of wrong.
In fact, I was told by one of my parents that women could legally be shirtless in NY because of that very reason. But, whichever parent who told me that might have been wrong. I'll have to look it up sometime.
Edit:
quote: 2005 June 19. Jonna M. Spilbor, a lawyer, arrogantly claims in the Poughkeepsie Journal that it is illegal for women to be barebreasted in New York State.
She is dead wrong.
This from http://tera.ca/ Off to find correlating data...
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Follow the link to the progressive mug shot pics. It just compounds the weirdness.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Yes, I've heard that also. I read an article once by a woman who tested it by walking around in New York city topless on a hot day. She wasn't arrested, but she got some astonished looks.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
quote:In 1992 New York's highest state court ruled that women could be topfree in public. Since 1992 women in the highly populous State of New York have enjoyed the right to bare their chests whenever men could do so. As one New York Justice wrote in his concurring opinion, "One of the most important purposes to be served by the equal protection clause is to ensure that 'public sensibilities' grounded in prejudice and unexamined sterotypes do not become enshrined as part of the official policy of government."
Yay for equal rights!
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
The fact that this guy has a "series of mug shots" is of some concern as well..... (they span over several years)
FG
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
quote: In 1992 New York's highest state court ruled that women could be topfree in public.
Yay for b- er... equal rights!
--Enigmatic
Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :
I second that, yay for breaqual rights!
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Are you sure that's not bra-equal rights?
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Hmm.. Awesome, though I wouldn't do it. Mostly because that's sensitive tissue and would suck if sunburned. But I burn like crazy, so...