An Arresting Affair
An Arresting Affair (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A gal in New York was arrested
For strolling outdoors while bare-breasted.
But courts say, “No fair!
You can not make gals wear
Shirts and blouses, cause men go bare-chested.”
Yesterday, CNN reported that Jill Coccaro has received a $29,000 settlement of her civil rights lawsuit against New York City. She’d been arrested for topless strolling and was detained for twelve hours, despite a 1992 New York State appeals court ruling that women have the same right as men to remove their shirts.
(You can find more of my legal verse and humor here, my feminist humor here, and my New York humor and limericks here.)
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And now some links, for your reading pleasure:
* Carnival of Family Life
* Friday Ark
* Carnival of Storytellers
* Carnival of Education
Technorati Tags: Wrongful Arrest, Bare Breasts, Bare Chests, Topless Humor, New York Law, Lawsuit Limerick, Police Overzealousness, Topless Strolling, Equal Treatment, Women’s Rights, Feminism
June 19th, 2007 at 1:29 am
Wow. It’s true though. If men do it, why can’t we? You can’t say men don’t like to see tittys hanging out there for all to see! xD
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Though I don’t mind my top being bare
In New York I’m afraid folks would stare
Of my features my best
Isn’t really my chest
It’s like King Kong’s, all covered with hair.
June 23rd, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Paul, I can always count on your to up the limerick ante!
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