I am all for nudity, but I care even more about trees and the state of our global environment. That is why the following story from India left me feeling conflicted. From Reuters:
Women in an eastern Indian forest are stripping naked to distract police and to help a criminal gang avoid arrest while illegally chopping down trees, the Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.
Some of the women belong to a timber mafia in the heavily-forested state of Jharkhand while others are paid to strip in front of the police, who are too embarrassed to arrest them or too distracted to hunt the gang down, the daily said.
“It is proving tough to deal with these women,” Jharkhand forest official B.K. Singh said. “It has almost become a regular practice for them to strip.”
The story gets even more absurd when you read the headline of a similar article at Sify.com: Women terrorise Jharkand forest guards. Hmmm. I guess anyone can be a terrorist these days. Fear not though because Chief Wiggum and his posse have a solution: “But the guards are not stumped — they are planning to recruit women guards to deal with the problem.”
