Privacy for naked drunkards

[jspazzer.livejournal.com]

Following the discussion about Google Streetview vs. privacy, some may be interested in the haha brouing over at the Villeside Journal site.   One of the intrepid reporters took a video camera to the Tufts Naked Quad Run and posted it on Youtube.   Drunk streakers were not amused.
http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/fun/x805327507

Comments

[clara-girl.livejournal.com]

just because you can doesn't mean you should.

[ron_newman]

And I wouldn't have. I'm just trying to clarify the "private property" issue that has been raised.

[komos.livejournal.com]

Which is a statement that is just as easily applied to the runners.

[komos.livejournal.com]

Aw, so cute... you just trotted out a straw man of your own. Who said I did?

Seriously dood.

[komos.livejournal.com]

Yes, and your suggesting otherwise makes it appear that you're just trying to save face. I have explicitly stated, "I am not suggesting that participating in a naked run is somehow morally wrong." I also responded to chumbolly's claim that "running around drunk and naked at college is fun" with "Yes, it is." I'm guessing you also missed this (http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/1071338.html?thread=10094826#t10094826) in your rush to pigeonhole me. This idea that I am arguing from some sort of puritanical "never nude" view is something you tried to pin on me from your first response, but it's just another example of your grasping.

Claiming that I am 'rabidly defending' voyeurs is another straw man. I have said nothing to defend the photographers at the event. Though I have noted that there are no rights to privacy granted to participants of a clearly public event, I also granted that the photographers may, in fact, be predatory. Further, I am comfortable saying that knowing full well that most of the cameras were handled by fellow Tufties and in some cases by the participants themselves.

But all of this is beside the point. Again, the participants went into the event with full knowledge that there was a risk of photographers being present. That risk was demonstrable through photographic evidence from past NQRs. If the assumption was that somehow things would magically change and there would be no pictures taken, the participants making this assumption were being naive and did not adequately consider the consequences of their actions. It's quite simple, really... If you do not want to be photographed naked at a public event, do not appear naked at that public event.