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World Naked Bike Ride 2008: Manchester (video)

GS — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:16:08 +0000

Cyclists dared to bare all in chilly conditions on Friday 13 June at Manchester’s third annual Naked Bike Ride. We asked riders and members of the public what they thought.

World Naked Bike Ride 2007: Manchester (video)

GS — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:08:06 +0000

Last night at 7pm, naked cyclists rode around Manchester city centre. They were protesting about oil dependency and car culture and celebrating ‘the human body and the bike’.

Man threatened with arrest due to ‘annoying’ gnome

GS — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:37:35 +0000

The BBC reports the story of man in Cornwall who has been threatened with arrest due to having an ‘annoying’ garden gnome:

“Now police have served Mr MacKillop with a notice for “placing a garden gnome with intent to cause harassment”.

Mr MacKillop, 46, was woken in the night by two officers who warned him that the gnome was offensive to his neighbours.”

Interesting to see that the neighbour who has complained about it is a ‘former policeman’. And, reading this, you may suspect that the gnome is naked or obscene in some way. But no, it is dressed in a police uniform.

There does seem to be a certain theme running through this story.