Student Facing Charges & Court For Streaking In Black Thong During Game

[matcom]

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BETHLEHEM -- The prankster son of a Bethlehem school board member is getting an unpleasant education this week in the district's approach to discipline.

The lesson: Streak across the football field in a black thong, and you will be punished.

Severely punished.

Bethlehem Central High School senior Brian Storey already served a five-day suspension for his not-quite-naked halftime dash during last month's Friday night homecoming game, his parents said.

But this week the student is due in Bethlehem Youth Court to stand trial before his peers on an exposure of a person charge. The offense is a violation, police said, lower than a misdemeanor.

Students and some parents -- Storey's included -- are miffed by the district's throw-the-book-at-him response to a prank that reportedly cracked up both kids and adults.

Five days, they say -- for streaking?

But he didn't hurt anybody!

And he wasn't even naked!

And we won the game!

"They all pretty much think it's ridiculous, for the most part," Tyler Robbins, a defensive tackle on the Bethlehem Eagles, said of his classmates.

"Teachers, police officers were all laughing when it was happening. And all of a sudden they gotta turn it into a big deal. That's pretty much what the kids were saying."

In a letter last week to the local weekly newspaper, Storey's father attacked the school district, saying it was inconsistently meting out punishment.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=416885&category=ALBANY&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=11/7/2005

[Strong Atheist]

1. I am a nudist, so

this is something that I take issue with. The world would be a better place without the class consciousness and image pigeon holing that comes with what you choose to wear. People make assumptions about you based on your clothing. If there were no clothing, there would be less assumptions and more taking you as you are.

[Loonman]

2. PC

Is BS.

[Fox Mulder]

3. Jesus Christ.

The kid did nothing wrong. So what...I've streaked at a football game once and I never even got in trouble...and I was naked!

[Debi]

4. The least he could have done is worn the school's colors n/t

[CStrick20]

5. I wonder if they charged every single guy ......

who was at the football with their shirts off. Thong is not naked, what case do they have?

[Debi]

6. Yeah...like man-breasts are hot?!?! n/t

[Guy Fawkes]

7. We've had *real* (nude) streakers...

but they've all been female. I guess the women just don't get punished for it around here...

[XemaSab]

8. So if Miss Venezuela does it,

it's ok?