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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Fines For Naked Hikers

A craze of naked hiking, especially popular among German tourists, has provoked offence in the small, conservative Swiss canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden.
Last year, the local police arrested one man found hiking without his clothes on and later charged him with a public disorder offence.
The incidents of naked hiking have incited outrage in the local residents of Switzerland’s smallest community, where women only received the right to vote in 1990. The Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger quoted the head of the canton police department as saying "We must protect our children from these immoral habits".

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