# Running Naked Thru A Thread Is OK...Streaking @ PA HS Graduation = 6 Months In Jail! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390 "2004-10-15T15:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/21 "2004-10-16T04:00:43Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > While running around naked? :dubious: Coed naked dancing. Cuz swingin’ ain’t just for flappers. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/22 "2004-10-16T09:05:16Z")
_6 months_?! Have these people heard of PERSPECTIVE? ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/23 "2004-10-16T12:32:03Z")
Yes Gemma. We must show that this is ridiculous and streak in support. You start 😛 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/24 "2004-10-16T13:20:50Z")
Hmmm. Violate SEC regulations, commit perjury, and you get five months. Expose your birthday suit, and you get six. :dubious: I like your idea of a coed nekkid dance, **iampunha**. Combine that with a halloween theme, and it could be interesting. _One teacher to another: I’ve never seen so many elephant and snake costumes, have you?_😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/25 "2004-10-16T13:31:43Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > (Better stick to Ontario, it’s legal to go around topless here…) Yeah, but a fat lot of good it does you in Canada where it is too damn cold to go topless anyway. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/26 "2004-10-16T19:24:36Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > Yes Gemma. We must show that this is ridiculous and streak in support. You start > 😛 You’d use any excuse to see my boobs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/27 "2004-10-16T20:07:44Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > You’d use any excuse to see my boobs. 🙂 I, too, think we should streak in support and that you should lead by example:) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/28 "2004-10-17T02:41:19Z")
> [@Dr. Lao](#): > > Yeah, but a fat lot of good it does you in Canada where it is too damn cold to go topless anyway. > 😉 I dare you to come up and try it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![QuarkChild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c5a1d2/32.png) [@QuarkChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuarkChild)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/29 "2004-10-17T06:47:15Z")
As I write this post, there are a bunch of screaming naked college students ouside running through the streets. I can hear them from where I’m typing this. It’s the annual Santa Cruz naked parade. Didn’t have any desire to join them, for some reason, so I’m just sitting here nice and toasty wasting time on my computer. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/30 "2004-10-17T10:36:37Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > I, too, think we should streak in support and that you should lead by example:) :Runs naked through thread: Happy now? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jujuju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@jujuju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jujuju)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/31 "2004-10-17T12:55:36Z")
> [@QuarkChild](#): > > As I write this post, there are a bunch of screaming naked college students ouside running through the streets. I can hear them from where I’m typing this. > > It’s the annual Santa Cruz naked parade. > > Didn’t have any desire to join them, for some reason, so I’m just sitting here nice and toasty wasting time on my computer. i want one in atlanta!!! perhaps on my birthday! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/32 "2004-10-17T13:05:59Z")
There is a dude in Britain, [Steve Gough](http://www.nakedwalk.alivewww.co.uk/) (SFW), who recently completed a walk from Land’s End to John O’Groats stark bollock naked. That’s about 1,000 miles, from the western extremity of England to the north-eastern tip of Scotland - puns intended. He got locked up from time to time, especially in Scotland, but never more than a few days. 6 months? Absolutely puritanical and completely out of proportion. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/33 "2004-10-17T17:07:50Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > He got locked up from time to time, especially in Scotland, but never more than a few days. 6 months? Absolutely puritanical and completely out of proportion. Puritanical? This country? You don’t say! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/34 "2004-10-17T17:49:15Z")
> [@jujuju](#): > > If i lived there, i’d move. From my understanding, that’s exactly what most of the population does… ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/35 "2004-10-17T20:21:02Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Let me dig up the bit of legislature, it’s around here somewhere… Ah – so we finally have the difference between Chicago and Toronto! In Chicago, dead people vote; in Toronto, they get elected to the legislature! 😛 (And in Missouri, they get elected Senator, though given the choice between a dead man and Ashcroft, I can understand the logic there! ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/36 "2004-10-17T20:24:19Z")
> [@QuarkChild](#): > > As I write this post, there are a bunch of screaming naked college students ouside running through the streets. I can hear them from where I’m typing this. > > It’s the annual Santa Cruz naked parade. > > Didn’t have any desire to join them, for some reason, so I’m just sitting here nice and toasty wasting time on my computer. Wow! An annual naked parade. Nifty. I think I’ll just stay in and peek at it through the windows, though. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/37 "2004-10-17T22:07:52Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Ah – so we finally have the difference between Chicago and Toronto! In Chicago, dead people vote; in Toronto, they get elected to the legislature! 😛 I think this is really amusing … I went right to the end of the thread to see the new posts, read **Hari** ’s and saw all of yours _sans_ relevant poster information (location, post count, member status, etc) and thought to myself “I bet that’s a **Polycarp** post…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/38 "2004-10-17T23:20:34Z")
I read the OP and thought to myself, “There’s _got_ to be something more here – a prior conviction, some kind of assault, somthing that makes it less crazy.” So I went looking. But no, it IS as crazy as it sounds. Here’s the [Towanda paper’s version of it.](http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13077050&BRD=2276&PAG=461&dept_id=465049&rfi=6) That kid must have had the worst defense attorney in history. I am going to send an email to the governor of Pennsylvania suggesting clemency. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/39 "2004-10-17T23:39:04Z")
I’m not sure what the rules are here on the boards are about suggesting sending out emails in support of one cause or another. So I don’t specifically endorse the idea for others. But I Googles and found the [PA Governoers website](http://www.governor.state.pa.us/) and sent him the following: > [@](#): > > I believe governor Governor Rendell should offer some form of clemency or pardon to Russell Chmieleski of Towanda, who has been sentenced by Bradford County Judge Jeff Smith to six months to 23 months and 29 days in prison. > > His crime – streaking his high school graduation ceremony. > > There is a story available online about it here: > [http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13077050&BRD=2276&PAG=461&dept\_id=465049&rfi=6](http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13077050&BRD=2276&PAG=461&dept_id=465049&rfi=6) > > Imprisoning this kid seems an appalling misallocation of resources and priorities to me, and is a far harsher punishment than the act deserves. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-naked-thru-a-thread-is-ok-streaking-pa-hs-graduation-6-months-in-jail/269390/40 "2004-10-18T09:13:34Z")
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