Get yer speedos out: NJ Beach repeals 30 year Speedo ban

[LynneSin]

Personally, I think this should be a constitutional amendment banning this form of swimwear on men!!


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&e=1&u=/ap/20050430/ap_on_fe_st/skimpy_swimsuit_ban

N.J. Beach Town Repeals 30-Year Speedo Ban

By JOHN CURRAN, Associated Press Writer
Sat Apr 30, 7:53 PM ET

CAPE MAY, N.J. - Come on in, Speedo wearers, the water's fine: Your skimpy little swimsuits are legal now. For more than 30 years, this quaint little Victorian-themed resort at the southern tip of New Jersey said no to "skintight, formfitting or bikini type" bathing attire on males over the age of 12.

For an ocean resort that once required men and women to swim at different times of day, wearing heavy woolen, cover-everything swimsuits, it made sense to modernize.

"It's a beach town, for God's sake," said Police Chief Diane Sorantino. The town also agreed to lift a rule that stopped bare-chested men from strolling along the beachfront promenade.

Not that everyone's cheering. It's often the older guys — the ones with beer guts, or wrinkly skin, or unsightly tufts of hair — who wear the tiny swimsuits.

"The people you want to see in the Speedos, you don't," said Maggie Creighton, 19, who works in a downtown lingerie store.

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[mark414]

1. we all know where kleeb will be taking his vacation...

[In_The_Wind]

2. Cape May is rather quaint

This old law doesn't surprise me one bit.

[LynneSin]

5. I love Cape May but haven't been there in years

I can't see people in Cape May wearing the dang things

http://www.spongebob.indiegroup.com/images/sponge,pat,speedos.jpg

[In_The_Wind]

7. I was there several times Hawk Watching

The beach crowd was quiet a bit older. The skimpy bathing suits are usually 10 miles away over in Wildwood.

However ~ the seafood is superb in either place.

[Robeson]

3. Then obviously, you are not a lap swimmer......

...I gots to have my speedos!...

[LynneSin]

6. I have no problem with people who participate in water sports...

...however the guy with his guy sticking out farther than his bulge should NOT be wearing one!

[siliconefreak]

4. How typical

Typical Puritan-American law.

[JohnKleeb]

8. well looks like I wont be going to Cape May this year

:P BTW Lynne, I hate those things too, wanna sponsor a ban with me on speedos :D.

[xchrom]

9. like at the roller coaster ride -- they should have a picture

of jeff stryker in one -- and say if you don't look like this -- you can't wear one on the beach.

i'd faint with a beach full o'that!
sigh...

[KG]

10. one liner of the week! :

"The people you want to see in the Speedos, you don't," said Maggie Creighton, 19, who works in a downtown lingerie store.