Mexican city bans indoor nudity

[Champ]

MEXICO CITY - Alarmed by glimpses of sweaty citizens in the buff, the city council in the southeastern city of Villahermosa has adopted a law banning indoor nudity, officials confirmed on Wednesday.

The regulation, which takes effect on Jan. 1, calls for as much as 36 hours in jail or a fine of 1,356 pesos ($121) for offenders in the Tabasco state capital, 410 miles east of Mexico City.

"We are talking about zero tolerance ... for a lack of morality," said city councilwoman Blanca Estela Pulido of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, which governs the state and city.

Opposition party councilman Rodrigo Sanchez said in an interview that the measure, part of a larger series of prohibitions, "tramples on the rights of the citizens by taking laughable measures such as contemplating penalties for citizens who walk around nude inside their houses."
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Pulido said she was confident that citizens who catch a glimpse of offenders would report them to police - though the law also threatens jail for peeping Toms.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1222mexico-nudity22-ON.html

[JohnKleeb]

1. heh

well I guess I won't go there nude anymore.

[mark414]

2. does that mean no more sex or showering?

how do people change their clothes?

[JohnKleeb]

9. damnit why do other people have to be more smart than I do

Never thought about that one.

[kittycat1164]

3. how are you 'spose to shower???

:shrug:

[yvr girl]

4. Good thing I'm not in Mexico

The law might be breaking down the door to haul me away to prison.

[NYC]

5. Wouldn't it have made more sense to

pass a law requiring people to close the curtains?

No indoor nudity? How weird is that.

[Placebo]

6. I could see banning indoor nudity...

if you've got like the front door and all the windows open. I think that's what they mean.

[Not_Giving_Up]

7. Guess they need air conditioning!

Opposition party guy says...

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"I have no idea how you detect the naked. You'd have to have a big operation to try to bring it under control," he added.

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The city on the southern Gulf of Mexico is noted for its swelteringly hot, humid climate.

"The majority of houses have a lot of ventilation and we give ourselves the luxury of going naked," Pulido said. "Because we walk past the windows, you see a lot of things."

[matcom]

8. what if i have to poop?

:shrug:

[KurtNYC]

10. Indoors?

What door?

Seriously, it should be other people's responsibility not to look.

They will also have to ban that Nelly song:
"It's getting hot in here,
so take off all your clothes..."

[Champ]

11. Rotflmao @ the Nelly song

[Lisa0825]

12. LMAO! Yes, I have caught such 'glimpses'!!!

I have been to Mexico in the summer a few times, and not the resort areas, but just regular towns, and people really do open everything for ventilation, and get caught in the buff! My ex-bf used to do that all the time! I at least grabbed a towel to hold in front of me!

[name not needed]

13. Looks like I'm gonna have to give up my nude drug smuggling in Mexico.

:(

[JohnKleeb]

14. Belize is nice

and you really don't have to learn Spanish since English is spoken there.