Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

Gardening tips from the Boulder (CO) Daily Camera…

A Boulder woman who was threatened with eviction last spring for gardening outside while wearing nothing but pasties and a thong took her au naturel look to the next level Wednesday, causing a stir with neighbors and police.

Catharine Pierce, 52, took advantage of the nice weather by toplessly tending to her gardens in the front and back yards of her home in the 800 block of Cherry Avenue in north Boulder.

Neighbors and passersby first called police to report the woman, who kept on her yellow thong and pink gardening gloves, about 1:45 p.m.

Sarah Huntley, a police spokeswoman, said an officer sent to investigate told the woman that she should consider putting on a shirt out of concern for the children playing outside the Shining Mountain Waldorf School across the street.

Pierce went inside where her husband, Robert Pierce, 59, called police to complain about the officer’s unsolicited recommendation.

Huntley said a police supervisor agreed with the man that his wife wasn’t breaking any laws.

Robert Pierce told the supervisor, “OK, well, she’s going back outside with her top off,” Huntley said.

While Boulder bans public nudity at the shores of Coot Lake — a popular gathering spot for nudists decades ago — and state law prohibits exposing genitals, being topless isn’t against the law in Boulder.

Huntley said police “can’t order her to put a shirt on,” but the officer was justified in asking her to reconsider her scant clothing because families were concerned.

“The officer certainly can still advise her to put her shirt on … based on other factors, such as children in the area,” Huntley said.Police received at least four calls about the topless gardener. Dispatchers began telling callers there was nothing they could do as long as the woman’s thong stayed on, Huntley said.

“We have done what we can within the limits of the law as it stands now,” Huntley said.

The Boulder City Council, which is considering expanding its anti-nudity law, recently removed a proposal that would have made showing the female nipple in public a municipal offense.

Huntley said the concerns among neighbors point to the need for such a code.

“These are some of the issues we are attempting to address with the proposal of a nudity ordinance,” she said.

Tending to her front lawn, Catharine Pierce declined to answer questions. Her husband, however, said they weren’t doing anything wrong.

“You don’t see us trying to lure children over here,” Robert Pierce said. “We stay within the scope of the law.”

Asked why his wife works outside nearly nude, he said that’s their way of worshipping.

Boulder Housing Partners, which owns the couple’s house, threatened to evict the couple last year, saying they were violating the terms of their lease by creating a nuisance with their nudity.

The appearance drew mixed reactions Wednesday.

Jessica Mulen, a nanny walking three young children along the street, said, “I would assume their parents would have a problem with that” and headed the other direction.

Bill Hanson, a Boulder resident who brought his children to a busy park near the Pierce home, said he first saw the woman with pasties on last year.

“I saw a gal with no top on,” he said. “I did a double-take.”

Hanson said the scene was a little shocking, but “she seemed kind of casual about it.”

Karon Dickinson, who was also visiting the park, said she was OK with the woman’s choice.

“I could care less if someone wants to sit out there like that,” she said.

She said she didn’t know being topless in Boulder is legal, and she might take a cue from the gardener.

“I might do it in my backyard,” she said.

Indigo Room goes blue

Entertainment news from NBC-2 NewsOnline (Ft. Myers, FL)…

A man was arrested for stripping naked in the middle of the Indigo Room and refusing to leave, reports said.

The bartender/manager of the Indigo Room called Fort Myers Police because a patron, later identified as Irving Edwin Howard, was causing a disturbance in the bar, reports said.

The bartender told the officer Howard came into the bar without shoes, so he asked Howard to leave.

Howard refused to leave and began taking off all of his clothes, reports said.

Once he was naked, he went into the women’s restroom.

The officer went to the door of the women’s restroom and asked Howard to come out. Howard walked into view, but refused to turn around and put his hands behind his back, reports said.

Instead, Howard began screaming and ran towards the officer with his hands clenched in a fist, the officer said.

The officer used his taser on Howard and he fell to the ground. Howard attempted to get up off the floor and the officer used his taser again, reports said.

With the assistance of another officer, Howard was handcuffed and taken into custody.

He was charged with indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest without violence and trespassing.

Dallas cop fired for sexting

This comes to us from the Dallas Morning News and Injusticeeverywhere.com

Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle fired a four-year veteran on Thursday after an eight-month internal investigation found among other things that he sent nude photos of himself to a high school student during school hours, kept several people’s ID cards, and failed to give copies of tickets to several violators who were later wanted for arrest because they didn’t pay the tickets.

Bryan Crews, 30, can appeal his firing.

Crews could not be reached for comment, but in his internal affairs statement, he questioned the fairness of the investigation, which was an unusual one for the department because it involved sexually explicit images that the officer saved on his personal cell phone.

“I do not deny all of the allegations, but question the integrity of the investigation, and how the evidence was obtained,” he wrote. “I am not saying that my behavior was OK.”

The internal affairs investigation started in late February after his wife gave the authorities his private cell phone memory card, ticket books and other evidence. Crews’ wife told officials that she believed some of the sexually explicit images to be child pornography, but the investigation found no evidence that the images were of minors.

He’ll be your private dancer

Dancing updates provided by the AP and USA Today…

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police are looking for a man who they say repeatedly sneaks into backyards, dances around naked and then runs away.

Police believe the man has been exposing himself in the same neighborhood since 2005. The most recent incident was on Sept. 30.

Police say he usually climbs a fence or goes through a gate and either dances naked or jumps in a swimming pool naked. Police say he also has danced naked on top of a backyard air conditioning unit.

Police say they’re looking for a pudgy man who is about 6 feet tall and covers his face while dancing.

Dallas Police Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther says police want to catch him before it escalates into something worse.

Naked man caught after high speed chase

The Bryan (TX) Eagle uncovered this gem…

A naked man from Palestine was arrested Sunday afternoon in College Stationafter a car chase that spanned almost 60 miles through three counties while reaching speeds of more than 100 mph.

A Bryan-based Department of Public Safety trooper — who was with one of five agencies involved in the incident — received minor injuries after his patrol unit hit a concrete pillar on a rain-slicked highway.

Authorities said Ubalda Olvera, 31, stole a white, older model Cadillac sedan in Marquez in Leon County. The pursuit ended on Texas 6 in College Station near the University Drive exit, where the man crashed and drove into a grassy ditch. His car, which was southbound, rested facing north.

The naked man raced from his vehicle and tried to flag down motorists who stopped to help, according to police. College Station officers intercepted the man and took him into custody, according to Sgt. Calder Lively. It was unclear why he was naked, but authorities said he was spotted earlier in the day with no clothes on in Leon County.

Olvera was treated for minor injuries at College Station Medical Center and transported to Brazos County Jail, where he was charged with evading arrest with a vehicle causing serious bodily injury. He was also later charged with DWI. Officers said Olvera seemed confused and may have been under the influence of PCP, according to a police report.

After the chase entered Brazos County, DPS Trooper Jonathan Hunter crashed at about 3:22 p.m. near the split of Texas 6 and Business 6. He was treated at St. Joseph Regional Health Center for lacerations and a sprained ankle, then was released, according to DPS dispatchers. His car was totaled in the wreck, authorities said.

The pursuit involved officers from the Leon County Sheriff’s Office and troopers based in Robertson and Brazos counties, as well as the Hearne and College Station police departments.

That’s why they put locks on doors

Reuters, er… uncovered this one…

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - An extremely drunk, naked man lost his way at a New Zealand hotel and ended up sleeping in the wrong room, forcing its female occupant to hide in the bathroom, local media reported.

The 29 year-old Australian man had gone back the hotel in the resort town of Queenstown with a woman, but got up in the night and wandered into a bedroom where a couple were sleeping.

“He was a bit surprised that there were two people in his room and he was butt naked,” Sergeant Steve Watt of Queenstown police told the Southland Times.

As the intruder slept, the startled woman took refuge in the bathroom as her husband summoned hotel staff.

The man, who could not remember whom he had been with nor what room he had been in, and had no clothes or wallet.

Police gave him a ride home clad in a hotel bathrobe, but let him off after the guests and hotel decided not to press charges.

“It was far too funny,” said Watt.

Put your hands up! Er… on second thought…

This comes to us from the Houston Chronicle…

Officers shot and killed a naked, gun-toting man who rammed his car into a gate and fired at least one shot at a police station in northeast Houston early Tuesday morning, officials said.

The man, who has not been identified, died outside the Houston Police Department’s Northeast Patrol Station in the 8300 block of Ley Road, police spokesman John Cannon said.

Around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said, they received reports, including one from an Aldine ISD police officer, of a shirtless man in a white Mitsubishi Mirage driving erratically and waving a gun around the U.S. 59 and North Loop interchange.

Cannon said the man, who was alone in his car, then drove to the station and smashed into a locked gate at the lot where officers park their private vehicles.

He went around the building, failed to smash through a second gate, reversed course and smashed into a car under a sally port where police process prisoners, Cannon said.

The man emerged from the car with a 9mm handgun and threatened officers, firing at least once, Cannon said.

“They had no idea who they were dealing with,” he said. He said officers couldn’t determine if the man was irate or possibly trying to help a prisoner who was being brought to the station.

That’s when six officers fired at him.

Connections investigated

No officers were hurt, and no other injuries were reported. Several cars in the parking lot were damaged.

It’s unclear why the man rammed the gate, Cannon said.

A toxicology report will be done as part of an autopsy by Harris County medical examiners.

Cannon said the department was checking whether the man had any connection to any of the people who were in custody at the police station.