Hot Weather Leads Some Workers to Strip

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Hot Weather Leads Some Workers to Strip, August 16, 2001 10:29 am EST

BERLIN (Reuters) - A heat wave that has sent temperatures to record highs has prompted some Germans to strip off their clothes in the workplace, Bild newspaper reported on Thursday.

"My boss doesn't mind this at all," Bild quoted Kirsten Sauer in an article next to a picture of the bare-breasted 23-year old saleswoman cooling off in front of a fan in the Berlin clothing store where she works.

"He said it was even cool and trendy."

Temperatures in Berlin hit 34 degrees on Wednesday -- the hottest August 15 in Germany's capital since 1891.

"No one can see me up here," Rainer Papin, 44, told the newspaper, which published a photo of the construction worker at work on a Berlin rooftop wearing just a hard hat, protective gloves and shorts.

Germans have a special fondness for nude bathing, and lie by the thousands during heat waves on the Baltic sea beaches and lake shores. Some big city parks, such as the Tiergarten in Berlin and Munich's English Garden, are often filled with nudists in the hot summer weather.

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2001

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Mounties Warn Walker to Keep Clothes On, August 16, 2001 10:29 am EST

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Police in British Columbia hope they have made their point with a man attempting to walk across the vast western Canadian province -- he must keep his clothes on.

The man, who was not identified, received a stern warning after he was detained this week in two southeastern British Columbia communities for walking naked along the highway, police said on Wednesday.

"He was firmly told that next time he has to keep his pants on," said Corporal Doug Barron of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Creston, British Columbia, who detained the man on Tuesday near the town about 460 miles east of Vancouver.

The man, who spoke only Greek, told authorities he was walking to Vancouver and had removed his clothes because he was hot.

The man was given a brief mental exam after his first arrest on Monday in the village of Yahk, then released.

[ROTFL] firmly !!!

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2001


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