MATCOM! Good news! Mooning is not a crime in Maryland!

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010301509.html?nav=hcmodule

Mooning Deemed 'Disgusting' but No Crime in Md.
By Ernesto Londoo
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 4, 2006; Page B01

Acquitting a Germantown man who exposed his buttocks during an argument with a neighbor, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled yesterday that mooning, while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland.

"If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," Judge John W. Debelius III said after the bench trial, reversing the ruling of a District Court judge.

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