So. Many. Things. About. This. Story. So much understated bizarre.
So. Many. Things. About. This. Story. So much understated bizarre.
1) The headline mildly starts "Weird behavior," and then goes on to describe a naked man jumping over the seawall into the Willamette.
2) This "behavior" is similarly mildly described as "odd."
3) While we're on the subject, "Weird behavior" is punctuated as if it's a new regular category of stories in The O , like the police-scanner report in small towns.
4) Presented without comment: "The man had apparently been wearing something before he jumped over the railing: a backpack."
5) "Dispatchers had described the man as a 'possible shopper at Saturday Market.'" Because there are always naked people (well, naked people wearing backpacks) browsing Saturday Market.
6) Portland Police (the original Po-Po) apparently ran across the naked seawall-jumper entirely accidentally: "Police were called to the Waterfront Park area Saturday morning to investigate a trail of 'bloody footprints,' according to dispatchers. Police didn't -- at least initially -- think that the footprints were linked with the naked man."
7) And, finally, the obligatory-in-Oregon, "State law allows public nudity -- as long as it isn't done to sexually arouse oneself or others...But some Multnomah County Circuit Court judges have refused to find defendants guilty under the city's ordinance if defendants were found to be engaging in a form of free expression."
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/02/weird_behavior_naked_man_jumps.html
1) The headline mildly starts "Weird behavior," and then goes on to describe a naked man jumping over the seawall into the Willamette.
2) This "behavior" is similarly mildly described as "odd."
3) While we're on the subject, "Weird behavior" is punctuated as if it's a new regular category of stories in The O , like the police-scanner report in small towns.
4) Presented without comment: "The man had apparently been wearing something before he jumped over the railing: a backpack."
5) "Dispatchers had described the man as a 'possible shopper at Saturday Market.'" Because there are always naked people (well, naked people wearing backpacks) browsing Saturday Market.
6) Portland Police (the original Po-Po) apparently ran across the naked seawall-jumper entirely accidentally: "Police were called to the Waterfront Park area Saturday morning to investigate a trail of 'bloody footprints,' according to dispatchers. Police didn't -- at least initially -- think that the footprints were linked with the naked man."
7) And, finally, the obligatory-in-Oregon, "State law allows public nudity -- as long as it isn't done to sexually arouse oneself or others...But some Multnomah County Circuit Court judges have refused to find defendants guilty under the city's ordinance if defendants were found to be engaging in a form of free expression."
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/02/weird_behavior_naked_man_jumps.html
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