The 'Naked Rambler' jailed for 22 months, following arrest within 60 seconds of his release!
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Could they tell the difference in facial expression between somebody who happens to be naked while doing something perfectly normal, and the expression of somebody up to no good?
_angel_
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I don't know. I would say go down to your local playground naked and see how far that gets you but I don't think it would be a particularly good idea.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Good luck to him I say.
If the naked rambler was a woman I think we'd be having an entirely different conversation.
If the naked rambler was a woman I think we'd be having an entirely different conversation.
Irrelevant - the naked rambler isn't walking from playground to playground.
weltweit
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Actually, I am not so sure about that.
_angel_
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No he stumbled upon it. I think the very least idea may be to try and plot a course away from playgrounds and kids!
How anyone could plan on being unclothed in Scotland at this time of year is beyond me.
weltweit
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I do wish he would get out of his current cycle of jail, nude out, jail etc etc .. it does not seem to me that anything is served by this. But apart from that I am prepared to just be amused, after all it is doing no one any harm really, him included.This guy actually annoys me. I want to be on board with the whole urban liberal consensus about how it's just the human body and blah blah... but it gets overtaken with thinking just play the game and put some clothes on you attention-seeking bellend
_angel_
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You're kidding? He's doing himself harm all that time in solitary cannot be doing good things for his mental health, his family life, relationships etc.... he's got kids hasn't he?
Perhaps you and other concerned parents would be so kind as to supply him with a walking scale map of all the places to avoid?
weltweit
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I tend to think if there is something wrong with his mental health, it is probably presenting itself with his desire to be naked as he leaves prison thus guaranteeing anewed arrest. Yes he probably does have something wrong mentally and probably he could do with some help. I expect that the authorities have thought about that also however.
weltweit
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I don't think he has young kids, and anyhow he is certainly an absent father.
_angel_
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There are tons of people with mental health problems that the authorities know about but do nothing. Getting sectioned these days seems to be very hard.
weltweit
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IIRC to be sectioned you need to be presenting a risk to yourself and or others.
I am not sure he fulfills this criteria.
_angel_
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If they keep arresting him surely this is the "harm to others". Personally I think he's more a harm to himself tho.
weltweit
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I don't know. He does not seem to present much risk to others, except perhaps that they may be shocked by seeing a naked man, and does not seem himself to be damaged seriously apart from his main obsession. I really don't know what the answer is. Hopefully someone will come up with a solution. Don't know why he can't go live in a nudist colony.
Because he's trying to change attitudes and the law regarding what you're allowed to do (and where) while naked in a non sexual way? Can't change attitudes if you only ever interract with people of like mind.
weltweit
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But Greebo are you sure he is either actually trying to change attitudes or going about this in the best way possible? Apart from this thread I have not heard much about him.
I'm sure about him wanting to change attitudes, I saw that documentary which followed him around (a few years back, I grant you). As for the way he's going about it, given his aims, what would you prefer that he did instead?
weltweit
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Yes, I saw the documentary also. But I am not sure what his aims are (it was indeed a while ago). Does his getting repeatedly locked up further his aims I wonder. tbh I feel a bit sorry for him, it is like he has lost his way and is doomed to repeat himself in an endless loop.
He's not the first person to try to walk from one end of this country to the other while publicising something. I suppose that from his point of view, if he just got dressed so that he could finish it, that'd miss the point.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
IIRC in the documentary there was also a girl and another man walking with him but for some reason they split up. I thought he had already made it to John O'Groats but that he decided to carry on walking or something.
As have many others, and he won't be the last. BTW that should be "principle" unless you mean he's been eaten by a main character or head of something.
SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
Its possible that Gough & the Scots authorities have come to some sort of mutually acceptable arrangement to get him out of Scotland without re-arrest. He appears to be walking cross country(still naked)in a southerly direction, presumably if he continues walking across fields without offending anybody he will eventually reach England & 'safety'. He is in Peeblesshire so not that far to walk. 
Maybe some of them are such idiots about this because they're not fucking?
SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
Excellent pic. I'm sure Stephen's fans were carvorting naked at Glasto etc in the 70s. 
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