Riggersis there something you want to tell us ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
my dadreckons that guy does it out of some low-level mental illness brought on by PTSD.
He doesn't think the guy should be jail. He does, after all, keep letting him out of prison (at the end of each sentence), but the polis always form a "reception committee" in the car park.
Once actually saw the naked rambler, at South Queensferry just outside Edinburgh. At the time he had a naked girlfriend accompanying him. Barring nearly crashing the car, I didn't feel violated by their nakedness.
Does show the difference between the legality of nudity north and south of the border- he made it all the way from Lands End to central Scotland before he really started to run into legal problems. In England, it has to be proven that someone has been offended by you being naked. In Scotland, it's that someone might be offended that the courts can prosecute on.
basically
he's not actually causing any harm to anyone, it's just the puritanical Scottish police and courts wasting their time and taxpayers' money.
^this
I think it's shameful
Would you feel this way if
it was John Prescott walking around with his tackle on show ?
surely
if prezza was wandering around nuddy I doubt you'd be able to see his cock, unless he lifted his belly and waggled everything at you? At which point it would likely be an offence under English law I think
So what you're saying is...
you'd happily look at a naked prezza as long as he didn't wave his maggot at you ?
no
but I wouldn't be offended if I saw him walking down the street in the altogether, just as I wasn't offended, sickened, appalled or aroused by the naked rambler.
It is utterly unacceptable.
Essentially he will not succumb to police bullying, so they take the piss. Why not leave him alone? I have met him, he seemed happy enough and non-threatening.
That's ridiculous
Waiting for him outside of the gates is just taking the piss. If the haggis-eaters are so offended by this, why not just give him a lift south of the border & point him in a southerly direction.
Thing is though
that he is incredibly obstinate. He wants to get to John O'Groats, naked. If you took him south of the border, even all the way to Lands End, he would just walk back to Scotland.
Then why not drive him there?
Then back south of the border
like he said.. i'm obstinant and want to do the trek
under my own steam.. i'd get in the guinness book of records and everything
because he really would then attempt to walk there
But, all he wants to do is finish his walk.
It would be done and over if they weren't being such dicks about it.
my father
who has to keep him locked up, would agree with you on this point. He sees it as a waste of everyone's time repeatedly jailing him (especially as, once he gets out of Perth, there's going to fuck-all people between there and his destination to be offended)
It's a waste of my money too.
Having met the benign hippy in person, he chatted to me for a bit and wandered on - his penis was not threatening.
All he wants is to get to John O'Groats and he made the first leg so quickly that it is absurd and embarrassing that the Scottish Polis are continuing to be such utter wankers about it.
I can't find fault with this
it is trult embaressing.
I met this bloke a few times
An ex of mine was friends with his ex-wife.
He's just gone beyond giving a toss.