Photo by Kevin Kramer
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Beatrice. NE — Residents 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.”
Think of the children!
Ashcroft’s sash over lady justice was retired. They could have used that to cover the naughty bits. Or at least pulled the pants up. There truly is nothing of interest going on in Nebraska is there?
I was born there and lived there until after high school. The Beatrice slogan back in the 70s was “Do it in Beatrice” and we had one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation.
The place isn’t as bad as it sounds, I moved north about an hour (Lincoln) for a bit more excitement.
But every place has its crazies, Beatrice just lets them run loose down main street. It’s like the running of the bulls (or is it the running of the bull sh*t).
I think it was Justice Potter who said he couldn’t define pornography but he knew it when he saw it. Well, apparently the good people of Beatrice have seen it. And it was vile. Who knew such things lay beneath the clothes of fiberglass models?
They may be objecting on religious grounds since they feel breasts without nipples and crotches without pudenda might be an upcoming evolutionary step. And well it might be – in Nebraska. No matter. As long as they continue to have someplace to stick that corncob.
Or the men in town may feel the dolls remind them of their wives because (based on a single experience of a Nebraska girl I dated in college) those mannequins are just as lithe and supple, active and accommodating, energetic and enthusiastic in bed as their women.
Hell Nebraska’s notorious for living sluts, why get bent out of shape over plastic tits?
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In Beatrice Nebraska even the fire hydrants have pants
FFS, this is the kind of thing that makes the entire US look population look like utter fucktards to the rest of the world.
What the hell is wrong with the people who complain about a PLASTIC, GENITAL-LESS shop dummy. Screw protecting the children, protect ME from the puritanical hate some people have against the human body, even if it is a crude replicas.
Nude child mannequin == child porn?
I ll take it out of the window…sigh.
Children regularly see their dolls naked. But the doll was Paid For. Someone made money from it. You can’t be giving it away for free in a store window.