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Ollie, you going to drive up for the body painting?

small group of activists is planning to stage a nude rally Saturday at Discovery Park's relatively remote north beach — a first step in their desire to establish a more permanent clothing-optional beach in Seattle.
The event over Labor Day weekend has upset at least one local couple who were planning to take their grandkids to the beach Saturday.

"Why should we be forced to change our family plans for that day to avoid being offended?" Magnolia residents Randy and Robin Hansen wrote in an e-mail to government officials last week. The e-mail called the nudists' event "ridiculous" and "illegal." (Prudes)

The event, called "As Bare As You Dare," will include body painting, games and swimming, all in the nude. Organizers, a group called the Body Freedom Collaborative, said that beyond planning Saturday's event, they want to establish a clothing-optional beach in Seattle, and that the relative remoteness of the park's north beach makes it a good choice in that regard.




Hansen said he wants the city to enforce a state law prohibiting indecent exposure. But Carr said it's tough to go after indecent exposure — especially if nudists are just being, well, nude.

"Usually with just simple public-nudity cases, we can't prosecute," he said. "[The crime] has to be based on a defendant's intent — if the defendant intends to be offensive" — exposing oneself to a child, for example, or walking naked into a church. Another component of the law is that someone must actually take offense at seeing the nudity in question.

Carr pointed to the nude bicyclists who ride in the annual Fremont Solstice Parade. "The police do not arrest them because we could never find anyone to testify that they were offended," Carr wrote in his e-mail to the Hansens. "In fact, each year thousands of people turn out for the parade knowing that the nude cyclists will participate."

To make a point, Hansen is considering showing up at the beach and being the one to take offense. "If the city doesn't get in front of this, where does it end?" he said.

He's a dick. Someone should throw body paint on him.