http://www.foxnews.com/us/2009/12/18/bicyclists-plan-naked-protest-ride-new-york/



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Why can't they have an underwear fun-run like they do in Salt Lake City?

The protest may well earn a mention in the Darwin Awards for the participants. Plan a naked ride for the middle of winter in New York? Snow predicted for Saturday.

Yeah, I saw the forecast.

Methinks that G*d may have the final word there.

My son lives near there, and when I was visiting him I took a big long hike through town and crossed the Williamsburg Bridge in the rain when all kinds of ultra-Orthodox were headed to work by foot. My God, you think those fur hats are big... You should see how it looks when they wear an overcoat and specially made hood to cover the hats. Looked like space aliens coming for me.

cludgie Wrote:
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> My son lives near there, and when I was visiting him I took a big long hike through town and crossed the Williamsburg Bridge in the rain when all kinds of ultra-Orthodox were headed to work by foot. My God, you think those fur hats are big...

> You should see how it looks when they wear an overcoat and specially made hood to cover the hats. Looked like space aliens coming for me.

And here's the hat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtreimel

Or just Google "schtreimel images" to get a clear picture how ridiculously big some of these are. Now imagine having a specially made overcoat with hood to protect them from rain.

that the story is from six years ago, yes?

Thanks michael.

You're a mensch.

In Seattle, we do our nude bike rides during summers:

-Fremont Solstice

- WNBR

been there, done that.



just sayin'

If I were one of the [potential] nude cyclists, I would be MOST scared of the rocks.

I was in Jerusalem on Shabbat, and the part of Jerusalem I was in was a lot more "neutral" than it was "religious"...but there WERE frum ("observant") right-wing [male] Jews around, walking back and forth from home to shul.

This was JERUSALEM---a "world" city---with significant numbers of Christians and Muslims (many of whom were employed that very day as "Sabbath goys" in the hotels, etc.), and although traffic was light, there WERE cars being driven...

...and every time a car went by, the "Shabbat observing" [male] Jews starting throwing rocks at the cars and shouting at the drivers to honor Shabbat.

...and those rocks were targeted, hurled with force, and SCARY.

Any Jews who have EVER been to Israel know about the rocks being thrown on Shabbat---unfortunately, it's part of the Israeli experience (except if, at that moment, you're in a totally ultra-"frum" area where the only vehicles are either military or government ones, like the police).

If I was in NYC, riding a bicycle nude in a protest specifically against frummers, I would be immensely scared of WHAT might be thrown at me because---although there may not be a lot of rocks around the city streets---there are certainly broken bricks, soft drink cans, pieces of broken glass, metal objects, and piles of poop (human, canine, and feline).



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Oh yeah, tevai, when I was taking pictures at the Wailing Wall, it was late Friday but the sun was still up. Three kids in their cute little caps accosted me and told me to put down the camera or else.....what, I'll never know.

Opened my young eyes that Mormons didn't invent religious bigotry.

Shummy Wrote:
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> Oh yeah, tevai, when I was taking pictures at the
> Wailing Wall, it was late Friday but the sun was
> still up. Three kids in their cute little caps
> accosted me and told me to put down the camera or
> else.....what, I'll never know.
>
> Opened my young eyes that Mormons didn't invent
> religious bigotry.

If the sun was still up, those kids were WRONG (and they KNEW it!!!). They were power-playing you to see if you would cave to their huffing and puffing.

But I had a negative experience at the Kotel (Western Wall), too. I was on the women's side (of course!!!), and there was---beyond the pavers in the plaza part---a little rise up the adjoining "hill." (This is difficult to explain, but anyone who has ever been there will know exactly what I'm trying to describe.)

There was a (very probably abandoned), very young, KITTEN on that slight upswing in the terrain...and a young (maybe four or five year old, obviously frum) boy standing there, throwing ROCKS at the KITTEN!!! I ran over shouting Lo!...Lo!...Lo!... [No!...No!...No!...]

...and the little kid's [frum, of course!!!] mother looked over at me like I was crazy. She had NO problem with her son systematically stoning a KITTEN...but she thought that I was NUTS to even notice...let alone be concerned. I could SEE her look at me and think: "Crazy American!!!"

I still think about this---and it still bothers me---to this day.

Frummers are [generally] no different from any other uber-observant group...the content of the religious beliefs may be significantly different, but the psychological, emotional, and mental attitudes are all too often the "same."