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 News from Around the Americas | August 2006 
A Different Way to Pedal Porn...
 Reuters
| | A parade of 30 topless porn stars riding motor bikes down the main street of New Zealand's biggest city will go ahead. |
A parade of 30 topless porn stars riding motor bikes down the main street of New Zealand's biggest city will go ahead, officials said Monday.
Auckland City Council Monday gave the "Boobs on Bikes" parade the green light, saying there was no legal reason to stop it despite concerns by some councilors that granting it a permit would add legitimacy to the event.
The parade, part of an "Erotica Expo" organized by local entrepreneur Steve Crow, will proceed down Auckland's Queen Street from midday Wednesday.
Police earlier said they did not regard the parade of leather-clad porn stars as indecent.
"In the opinion of the police, given the standards of decency observed in this day and age, a female being topless in a parade on a weekday in Queen St will not in itself constitute an indecent act," police inspector Rob Abbott wrote in a letter to The New Zealand Herald newspaper Monday.
However, the behavior of the participants during the parade might still attract the attention of police, he warned.
Uh, What Kind of Gods are These Again?
Reuters
Dozens of Nepali women stripped naked and plowed their fields in west Nepal, hoping to appease the gods and get some much needed rain, a newspaper report said Sunday.
About 50 women in two villages in Kapilvastu district, 120 miles west of Kathmandu, resorted to the desperate move at night Friday as days of prayers and Hindu ceremonies failed to bring rains for the parched paddy crop, it said.
"This is our last weapon, we used it, and there was light rainfall," Nepali daily Rajdhani quoted one of the women as saying.
Although there is no clear religious basis for the practice, some locals believe such a move could appease the rain gods.
Officials said there was insufficient rain during the June-September monsoon season this year and vast stretches of land along the southern plains, Nepal's bread basket, were parched. |
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