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!
First
FACEPALM
Conservative Standards
Or Displaced concern for Kiddies?
Morals or illness?
[Fail! 6-8-5 - ed.]
According to the FCC obscenity and naughty word manual, page 175, section 2, paragraph 3, using “pants” “ankles” and “shoes” in the same sentence in an article specifically referring to “nudity outside of the context of art or human form” can only be used with prior approval from “a simple majority of commissioners in the case of a blog post, or a super-majority in the case of national television or newspaper, unless the space pope has granted a waiver.
The approval seal should be listed at the bottom of the page, or, in the case of a waiver from the space pope, a link to a PDF of said waiver.”
OT: I hate being on jury duty…
Another big day in Nebraska.
Picard facepalm
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I hesitate to inquire how the town of Beatrice Nebraska regulates barbie dolls.
Dear Puritans,
Have you hear about America? Why don’t you go there? Please?
Sincerely,
England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan
I’m totally in support of this. That mannequin should be hauled away and locked up! No excuse for that type of behavior.
Next thing you know all stores selling hourglasses will have to do so in a room in the back of the store which is sealed off by a curtain
so are the factories that make the mannequins like porn houses or something?
Naked female mannequin: OK.
Female mannequin with pants around ankles…possibly erotic but certainly not obscene.
We’ve all heard those stories where people call the police because they got shorted on their McNuggets or some other stupid trivial reason totally unrelated to what the police are paid to do.
Apparently Beatrice, NE has a BUNCH of those goofballs and the police do their bidding.
Could you imagine the horror that would have been caused if this were a male mannequin? It would surely have turned men gay who gazed upon it, since as all God fearing Nebraskans know, gayosity is voluntary. As it is, the nude female mannequin will probably create a town full of lesbians.
They must have to clothe all of their sculptures, oh wait I don’t think they have art in Nebraska.lol
No nipples and no privates. Anyone who even brings this up has a seriously sick mind and should be sent for a mental check up.
What’s in Nebraska? I go there for two things,
1. Wind farms
2. Thunderstorms
Both are way out in the boonies. Is there even a big city?
>> 16 The0ne said, on July 14th, 2010 at 7:55 am
>> What’s in Nebraska?
And these are the same lovely people who gave us equally lovely Ben Nelson.
If Nebraskans call the cops on a naked mannequin, what would they do to a real nudist?
Beat them to death with farm implements?
mannequin Whore!!!
BURN HER!!!!
Guess which city is hiring one more officer? One more clown on the payroll doing absolutely nothing..