NEW ZEALAND - It wasn't so much the overall nudity a local government official in New Zealand objected to when he tried to cancel an annual bike race — it was the naked heads he was skittish about.John Hurley, the major of the Tasman District on the South Island in New Zealand, said the "clothing optional" race shouldn't take place because bikers wouldn't be wearing helmets, The Associated Press reports. Never mind that they also wouldn't be wearing anything else, either.
Hurley said police should enforce laws mandating that all cyclists wear protective headgear. He warned authorities that they'd wind up looking like "fools" if they allowed participants to race around Golden Bay, their heads shamefully exposed, for the third consecutive year.
"They have ridden bikes in the past down the road with no crash helmets, no nothing on and people say that's a double standard," he said.
Local residents have complained about the birthday-suit bike event, but police determined there was no action they could take to put a stop to it.
"We have taken advice on the legality of their proposed action and have been advised that it falls short of an offense," Sergeant Arthur Clarence said Friday.
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It sounds to me like if they have let the cyclists race for 3 yrs without stopping them for failing ot wear their helmets that it would be a little hard to stop them now without creating some kind of havoc.
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