THE CANADIAN PRESS — BRACEBRIDGE, Ont. – Lawyers for a man charged after not wearing clothes at a drive-thru in central Ontario will try to convince an Ontario court judge Tuesday that it should no longer be a criminal offence to be nude in public.
Brian Coldin is on trial after being nude at an A&W and a Tim Hortons in Bracebridge, where he pretended to reach into his non-existent back pocket for his wallet.
His lawyers will argue the nudity laws under which he was charged are too broad and therefore unconstitutional.
“The purpose of the criminal law is to protect us from harm, not to protect the sensibilities of the most prudish among us,” Nader Hasan, one of Coldin’s lawyers, said in an interview.
“These laws violate freedom of expression and they are overbroad such as to punish all kinds of conduct that is completely harmless and shouldn’t be criminal.”
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Hopefully, if anyone else decides to go naked they’ve got something worth seeing!!!!
with bodies like that they need to be covered !
““The purpose of the criminal law is to protect us from harm, not to protect the sensibilities of the most prudish among us,” Nader Hasan, one of Coldin’s lawyers, said in an interview.”
Very well stated and difficult to refute!
As much as I find this a wonderful advancement….I have to mimic the first two comments with the realisation that it’s not going to be the guys who spend their time in the gym getting fucking huge and ripped, or the guys with slender athletic physiques, or the cute twinks, or the hunky, but not-quite ripped furry older men going naked…it’s going to be the twenty stone uglier-than-hell guys with faces that have been smashed in, a bellybutton stretched out enough to fit a wallet in, and a gut so large it covers up their sex organs…and their knees.
I see “X made me physically sick and emotionally/sexually scarred me for life with their repulsive nudity” lawsuits coming up.