If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing Naked
ALATKA, Fla. — A Florida man, who reported seeing a naked man jump into his pickup truck, pursued the stolen vehicle until it crashed less than two miles away and then detained the accused thief until deputies arrived.
he incident took place on U.S. Highway 17 about 9:30 a.m. Friday morning.
Dean Johnson, of Johnson’s Towing, said he had just parked his 1987 Chevrolet pickup in the company parking when he ran in for a cup of coffee and left his keys in the ignition.No sooner than he poured his coffee, Johnson said his secretary began screaming about someone taking off in his truck.The woman called 911 to report what she witnessed: Caller: “Hey, this is Holly at Johnson’s Towing. A guy has taken one of our trucks and he’s taken off. He’s run over our fence.”
911 Operator: “Do you have any idea who he is?”
Caller: “No. He ran through our yard naked and all of a sudden he jumped into our employee’s truck.”
“Instantaneously, I thought someone was just playing in it. Once he got to the gate and crashed through the gate, I knew something wasn’t right,” Johnson said.
Following at a distance, Johnson and his brother, Ronald, gave chase as they called the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office for help.Less than two miles away, the stolen pickup wrecked in a field on Reid Street, where Johnson detained the driver, later identified as Wayne Boylan, 41.Maj. Gary Bowling was the first officer at the scene. He said he had to do a double take when the dust cleared.”When the sea of civilians parted to find that the driver was naked, you kind of have to shift gears a little bit and figure out what to do next,” Bowling said.Boylan was cuffed, placed under arrested and charged with grand theft auto and trespassing.The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said it was unclear why Boylan was naked or why the man stole Johnson’s truck. However, Bowling said it was clear from his conversation with the suspect that drugs were involved.”I asked him his name. I said, ‘What’s your name?’ He said, ‘Give me another hit and I’ll tell you my name.’ I said, ‘Hit of what?’ He said, ‘Crack.’ So, he was pretty clearly using drugs. That was just way outside of the norm,” Bowling said.Boylan was treated and released for injuries at Putnam County Medical Center before being booked into jail.
Source KNBC TV Los Angeles
Swedish women shed bikini tops in pool campaign
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Decades after some women cast aside their bras as an act of feminist radicalism, a group of Swedish women have launched a campaign to go topless in local swimming pools.
The Bara Brost (Bare Breast) campaign began two months ago in the south of the country, one of the campaigners, Astrid Hellroth, told AFP.
Already about 50 women supported the campaign, she said, and a vanguard of 15 women had started direct action, swimming topless in local pools.
“Our aim is to start a debate about the unwritten social and cultural rules that sexualize and discriminate against the female body,” said Hellroth, a 21-year-old student.
They also had a blog, she added: barabrost.blogg.se. Their site links to a Canadian sister organisation, the Topfree Equal Rights Association.
“It’s important that women have the same rights as men,” said another campaigner, 22-year-old Ragnhild Karlsson.
“When you say we are more attractive topless, we say men should not be able to abuse women because they are topless.”
The new campaign has been closely followed by the Swedish sex education journal, Ottar.
It recorded the launch of the campaign in September in Uppsala, 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the capital Stockholm, when two young women left their bikini tops in the dressing room.
When the lifeguard at the leisure centre challenged them, they refused to cover up and were told to leave the premises.
“Swimming pools generally require men to wear swimming trunks, and women to wear either bikinis or one piece swimsuits,” Inger Grotteblad, a spokesman for the Uppsala leisure centre told the online newspaper The Local.
“There are three reasons for this. First, there is a security aspect, then there is a hygiene issue and finally there is what we call ‘prevailing manners and customs’.”
In October, the campaign switched to a swimming pool in the southern town of Malmo, The Local reported. But here again, health and safety prevailed.
Another attempt in the southern town of Lund also failed.
This month the local ombudsman will decide whether or not to mediate in the matter.
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