Woman ticketed for appearing naked on Net fined $150
What's next, Mardi Grar?

A Lincoln woman ticketed for posting nude pictures of herself on the Web that were taken in a downtown bar was fined $150 Thursday.

Melissa J. Harrington, 21, was ticketed in December for violating Lincoln's public nudity ordinance by posting pictures on her former Web site "showing her naked at one of our downtown bars and in several other locations around the city," said Police Chief Tom Casady.
Harrington, who works as a Web designer at a local bank, says on her Web site that she likes "being naked in public ... even more when there's a lot of people there to watch."
Her old Web site was linked to another that shows explicit pictures of women who purportedly are college students in Nebraska.
Casady said it was obvious that the photos she was ticketed for were taken inside the Marz Intergalactic Shrimp and Martini Bar in downtown Lincoln.

Casady said no one has been ticketed in connection with other pictures on the Web site because it is not apparent where they were taken.

Harrington, who pleaded no contest to the public nudity charge, faced a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $500 fine.
She said she will continue to pose nude on the Web, but has shut down her old Web site and started a new one.

So how does she plan to avoid any more tickets if she doesn't change her ways?
"I guess I'll just have to be more cautious and watch what I'm doing," she said.
posted by tommEE pickles 10/10/2004 07:49:33 AM