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Barbara Lafleur of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., paid visits to a lumber yard and another store within a few minutes of each other. Curtis Lumber manager Bob Eakin, said she asked a couple of employees what time it was before she left. At the other store there was a little more conversation. “The manager said, ‘Ma’am, are you aware you have no clothes on?’ She was kosher and cool about it, and the manager told her she needed to leave,” said an employee. The Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office was called, but by the time they picked her up, Lafleur was fully dressed. “While the defendant claimed she was merely expressing her freedom to be fully liberated” by her choice of attire, said Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy III, “this alleged conduct is actually a crime under the penal law.” Murphy added that “Surprisingly, mental health found no psychiatric issues whatsoever.” (MS/Albany Times-Union) ...Is there something ironic that a woman choosing to be “fully liberated” is a crime under the penal law?
Original Publication Date: 10 June 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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