The city of Vancouver, BC, was overrun yesterday by naked, aroused, fast-moving hippies who violated our decency laws and represented one massive offense to God.
Well, at least, that's how some could look at it. The rest of us will just enjoy the photos and perhaps even donate to the cause... you mean you didn't see that coming?
This was all part of the 12th Annual Wreck Beach Bare Buns Run (type that ten times fast), held to raise money to preserve the local nude beach and fight off developers looking to set up peepholes (i.e. buildings on the cliffs above.) Spokesperson Judy
Williams says that celebration will continue on Aug. 23 with "Body
Acceptance Day" so "people can start discounting body shame that
they're raised with."
Ten-year-old Kevin Kunimoto says he'll be back to do the run again next year. "I just wanted to see how it was," he says. "I ran all by myself."
Occasionally,
the epithet 'textile' was uttered during the event. That's the word the
beach buffs use when referring to those in clothes.
Registrar Judy Ellery says people come from all over the world to take part in the run. "Last year, we had a whole family show up from Hong Kong," she says. [The Canadian Press]
We'll be there next year, for sure, because there weren't too many great snaps from the event (at least not yet online). But these should give you the general idea...
More about the event here.
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