Naked hikers face fines in Switzerland

by 158 | February 9, 2009 at 04:09 pm
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"We must protect  our children from these immoral habits," the paper quoted Melchior Looser, head of the cantonal justice and police department, as saying.

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up to date.  It is mid

winter in Switzerland

and it is for the most

part mountainous.,

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Naked mountain hikers in the Swiss canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden will in future face on the spot fines of 200 Swiss francs ($170), Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger reported over the weekend.

A wave of naked hiking — particularly popular with German visitors — outraged people last year in the traditionally minded canton, Switzerland's smallest by population, which gave women the vote only in 1990.[/q

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I'm not sure.  There are resorts with security fences where they can go if they want to walk around nude. Maybe they are exhibitionists.

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