Police Called After 57 Nude Women Pose For "Nude Peace Sign" Photograph

[matcom]

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The 57 women who posed for the cover of this week's Riverfront Times lay down and formed a human peace sign to protest the war in Iraq. Naked.

The controversial newspaper cover has caused several local businesses to remove the papers from their shelves - including a gasoline station in the Metro East area whose manager did so after a visit from local police.

"We put it out there knowing it was a provocative image, but never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that a police department would take actions to remove the publication from a newsstand," Riverfront Times editor Tom Finkel said.

The Huck's Food & Fuel at 4590 North Illinois Street in Swansea is usually the only place in the village of 10,000 where people can get a copy of the weekly newspaper. But Swansea police said the store manager discarded all the copies she had of the issue after they showed her a copy.

Police went to Huck's at the request of Swansea Mayor Chip Gray. "I just didn't think it was appropriate, and I'm not a prude by a longshot," said Gray, who said a local pastor had complained about the nudity.

Swansea Deputy Police Chief Steve Krakowiecki said the store manager had received copies of the Riverfront Times but had not yet put them up when officers went to the store. "The most we would have done was to ask them to move them out of public view, but it didn't come to that," Krakowiecki said.

Huck's store manager declined to comment.

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[Endangered Specie]

1. HEY! where are the fucken pictures?

:grr:

[TXlib]

2. I want a picture, dammit!

[Tropez]

9. Me too..

Me too..

[Cerridwen]

3. Maybe they can replace the picture with coffins of our soldiers - n/t

[Wickerman]

4. Link here

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/

[underpants]

6. Suddenly I want to have a falafel

:bounce:

[Misunderestimator]

7. That's a great pic!! What the hell is wrong with people?

[Misunderestimator]

8. Doh.... my first dupe

Now I'll stop wondering how people do that all the time....

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. There is nothing wrong with a little nudity for a good cause....

God, people need to get over themselves.
Duckie