The 'Naked Rambler' jailed for 22 months, following arrest within 60 seconds of his release!

[claphamboy]

A man who has spent most of the past five years in prison for refusing to wear clothes in public has been jailed again, this time for almost 22 months.

Stephen Gough, a former Royal Marine, has been dubbed "the Naked Rambler" thanks to his fondness for hiking across Britain in the nuddy.

He insists it is his human right to eschew clothing but the forces of law and order have deemed otherwise and he has been in jail almost continuously since May 2006.

His latest prison sentence of 657 days, his longest yet, was imposed after he walked naked out of Perth prison and enjoyed less than 60 seconds of freedom before waiting police arrested him for a breach of the peace.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...cked-up-again-after-leaving-jail-2343387.html

Seriously, WTF is wrong with this freak?

 

[stuff_it]

We had a different naked rambler turn up to a rave on the ridgeway once, a male friend looked from lying down just as the guy stepped over him. Bloke seemed pretty sound, had a bit of a boogy and that. *shrugs*

It's not like he's harming anyone.

 

[xes]

His conviction for contempt of court came after he refused to wear clothes in the dock at Perth Sheriff Court during his trial. The hearing was delayed while court staff fetched a piece of paper for the naked defendant to sit on "for hygiene reasons".

lol

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

he has a point. being naked is not something you should be arested for.

why is being naked offensive?

 

[xes]

We had a different naked rambler turn up to a rave on the ridgeway once, a male friend looked from lying down just as the guy stepped over him. Bloke seemed pretty sound, had a bit of a boogy and that. *shrugs*

It's not like he's harming anyone.

There used to be a naked couple at exodus every now and then. They'd dance the morning away stark bollock naked, and nobody batted an eyelid.

Nudity is frowned upon, even though we are all potentially naked right now!

 

[editor]

So long as he's not walking about with bag of sweets and a children-scaring stiffy on, I can't see the harm if he's only wandering over them thar hills.

 

[editor]

OMG! Nakedness!

 

[stuff_it]

There used to be a naked couple at exodus every now and then. They'd dance the morning away stark bollock naked, and nobody batted an eyelid.

Nudity is frowned upon, even though we are all potentially naked right now!

I can confirm that I am completely nude under my clothes

 

[marty21]

OMG! Nakedness!

why haven't these naked people been banged up? poor nekkid man - haven't the cops got more serious wrong uns to chase

 

[skyscraper101]

Why anyone would choose to walk around naked in Scotland is beyond me, it's freezing most of the time. Let alone rambling naked, you'd get scratched by all kinds of plants and stuff.

 

[past caring]

So long as he's not walking about with bag of sweets and a children-scaring stiffy on, I can't see the harm if he's only wandering over them thar hills.

Could be a bit of a problem though if he's running late and decides to catch a bus to get to the YHA before it shuts.

 

[quimcunx]

they should just let him go and wait for him to be a proper nuisance. 5 years (accumulative) in jail is a bit rubbish if all you've been doing is being naked.

 

[Lemon Eddy]

Why anyone would choose to walk around naked in Scotland is beyond me, it's freezing most of the time. Let alone rambling naked, you'd get scratched by all kinds of plants and stuff.

Midges.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

He originally walked nude from Lands End to John 'o groats. He succeeded with just a few brief arrests in walking naked thru England but came unstuck when he entered Scotland. He is actually being jailed for contempt of court, not being naked.

It is not actually against the law to be naked in a public place. A publicly naked individual is usually arrested for 'conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace' ie that they may cause others to commit crime.

 

[skyscraper101]

Midges.

And midges natch.

 

[quimcunx]

Actually I think there may have been a thread about him before and someone said it was a bit more than just being naked that was leading to the continuous jailings.

Still.

 

[newme]

Was he naked in prison?

 

[frogwoman]

Was he naked in prison?

that's a good question.

 

[TopCat]

Seriously, WTF is wrong with this freak?

I wish he could be free. This is awful.

 

[xes]

we should organise a naked protest outside his prison/every police station in the country until he is free to flap around as nature intended.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

We had a different naked rambler turn up to a rave on the ridgeway once, a male friend looked from lying down just as the guy stepped over him. Bloke seemed pretty sound, had a bit of a boogy and that. *shrugs*

It's not like he's harming anyone.

Was that the same morning we fronted up a load of riot pigs and they backed down?

If not then he's all over the Ridgeway, bollock nakkid.

 

[Mr Moose]

It's disgusting imprisoning him unless I'm missing something seriously anti-social in his behaviour.

Who's interest is this in to lock him up? How dare they deny his liberty for this?

 

[Orang Utan]

there's more than one naked rambler then, cos i remember another one called vincent bethal. he was all over the telly a while back for similar stuff.
the curious thing about him was that he had an enormous beard. perhaps he felt that he had to have something to cover his shame, even if it wasn't the traditional undergarments.
i myself go for both beard and pants, just to be certain.

 

[pinkmonkey]

There's a naked kayaker on the Grand Union at Tring, my mate who lives aboard there sent me the cameraphone movie as evidence.

 

[tar1984]

regardless of the rights and wrongs, you'd think he'd give it up unless he really likes being in jail. he's made his point. it's not the most serious issue to martyr yourself for, the police/courts aren't changing their attitude any time soon, so strikes me as kind of pointless what he is doing.

 

[Orang Utan]

It is not actually against the law to be naked in a public place. A publicly naked individual is usually arrested for 'conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace' ie that they may cause others to commit crime.

i can see the point of this.
if i was to be seen naked in public, there would be outbreaks of substantial criminality

 

[scooter]

I wonder why humans are the only animals to wear clothes. You'd think wild dogs or something would have figured out that it's warmer if they crawl under the skin of an animal they've just eaten

 

[Orang Utan]

I wonder why humans are the only animals to wear clothes. You'd think wild dogs or something would have figured out that it's warmer if they crawl under the skin of an animal they've just eaten

they don't have opposable thumbs to keep them on. you need thumbs to do buttons up.

 

[London_Calling]

I wonder why humans are the only animals to wear clothes.

Because all the rest don't like ironing? More to the point, how fucking dense are some people around here...

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

What is it about Royal Marines and taking their clothes off? He just went to one naked bar too many.