Ladies feel free to go topless, it pays!

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

NEW YORK (AP) -- A woman arrested for exposing her breasts has accepted a $29,000 settlement from the city, her lawyer said.

Jill Coccaro, 27, was arrested on a topless stroll two years ago, despite a 1992 state appeals court ruling that concluded women should have the same right as men to take off their shirts.

Coccaro, who now goes by the name Phoenix Feeley, remained in custody for 12 hours before she was told prosecutors were not going to pursue charges.

Her attorney, Jeffrey Rothman, told the Daily News that his client won the civil rights settlement from the city, which did not admit or deny wrongdoing.

"We hope the police learn a lesson and respect the rights of women to go topless," Rothman said.

Feeley told the New York Post that she was not treated well after her August 4, 2005, arrest in Manhattan's Lower East Side section. She claimed in an October lawsuit that a police officer yanked her out of a patrol car by her hair and police took her to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.

She told the newspaper she had gone bare-breasted after running the 2004 city marathon without police bothering her.

"I've always just felt that was something natural," Feeley said of going topless. "I've kind of always done it out of practicality."

[HaemishM]

Coccaro, who now goes by the name Phoenix Feeley

She keeps going around topless, she's going to earn that new last name.

[Chimpy]

I can see the PMRC types blowing a gasket about this.

[Murgos]

I can see the PMRC types blowing a gasket about this.

Yeah, i would think they would blow their tops and run around all in a flap.

[Chimpy]

I can see the PMRC types blowing a gasket about this.

Yeah, i would think they would blow their tops and run around all in a flap.

I just vomited in my mouth.

[Strazos]

No pictures?

[Samwise]

It's probably just as well there aren't.  9 times out of 10, the people who like to run around nude in public aren't doing anyone else any favors.

At least in SF and Berkeley.  Maybe NY's exhibitionists are less flabby.

[Signe]

I don't want to see pictures of a monkey vomiting in his mouth, anyway.  Much.

[Chimpy]

I don't want to see pictures of a monkey vomiting in his mouth, anyway.  Much.

I am not a monkey, I am a chimp.

My people are above the flinging of poop thank you very much.

[Paelos]

I don't want to see pictures of a monkey vomiting in his mouth, anyway.  Much.

I am not a monkey, I am a chimp.

My people are above the flinging of poop thank you very much.

It's true, chimps are the Mormons of the monkey community. They talk a good game, and then suddenly you find out you're missing all your beer.

[Righ]

I always blamed the invisible rabbits.

[JWIV]

No pictures?

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=3288698

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

Based on the fact that she ran in the 2004 city marathon I knew she would not be fat, but that is not an attractive woman. And whats going on with the right side of her torso, a huge vein or tatoo removal or something?

[Signe]

Soon, when women finally have the exact same rights as men, you will see the ta tas of all sorts of women imaginable.  Big ones, little ones, thin, fat, old, young....  maybe then you'll finally look up and notice our glowing red eyes and pointy pointy teeth.

[Nonentity]

Soon, when women finally have the exact same rights as men, you will see the ta tas of all sorts of women imaginable.  Big ones, little ones, thin, fat, old, young....  maybe then you'll finally look up and notice our glowing red eyes and pointy pointy teeth.

...I see what you did there.

[Samwise]

Your avatar intrigues me with its obscure Idiocracy reference.  Where's it from?

[Nonentity]

Your avatar intrigues me with its obscure Idiocracy reference.  Where's it from?

I posted about it in a Comics thread, but it's http://www.slowwave.com/ - people send in dreams (or people the artist knows do), and he illustrates them.

Cool stuff.

Also - SIGNE, I KNOW YOU REALLY HAVE RED EYES AND POINTY TEETH. WHY DID YOU THINK I DREW YOU THAT WAY.

[Signe]

I do NOT have red eyes.

[Nonentity]

I do NOT have red eyes.

I find that hard to believe.

Clearly, only someone with the red taint of madness would play a fishing MMO.

[Signe]

I can't play that.  It gives me erroneous error messages.   :-(

[Riggswolfe]

Based on the fact that she ran in the 2004 city marathon I knew she would not be fat, but that is not an attractive woman. And whats going on with the right side of her torso, a huge vein or tatoo removal or something?

It is a tatoo I think. It looks like a stylized knife to me.

[Strazos]

She was on the Kid Kris show out of PHL today. She was a bitch and refused to talk about her boobs when asked.

You go to court over showing your boobs in public, but you clam up about them over the radio? Pfft.

[Merusk]

I dunno.. from my armchair of internet judgement, seems like she was hoping to set herself up for some sort of false arrest lawsuit in the first place.  Neither her nor the lawyer look like 'quality' people.

[CmdrSlack]

Based on the fact that she ran in the 2004 city marathon I knew she would not be fat, but that is not an attractive woman. And whats going on with the right side of her torso, a huge vein or tatoo removal or something?

This thread needs the "she is not up to my standards" pic.

That woman is attractive, you're just a mope.

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

I bet you think Lindsay Lohan is attractive as well 

[Paelos]

She changed her name to "Pheonix Feeley?" I mean come on, why are we dodging the obvious here. She's obviously a stripper on the mid-day B squad at some exotic establishment.

[cmlancas]

She changed her name to "Pheonix Feeley?" I mean come on, why are we dodging the obvious here. She's obviously a stripper on the mid-day B squad at some exotic establishment.

Topless running is just her act, right?

[CmdrSlack]

I bet you think Lindsay Lohan is attractive as well 

Oh snap. You have laid down a serious burn. I shall now go weep for a while.


 

ETA -- Nah, I'll just go find an image file.

[Megrim]

Waaaaidaminnit, weren't you people that same ones that said the female models in Warhammer Online were ugly?

[Merusk]

Waaaaidaminnit, weren't you people that same ones that said the female models in Warhammer Online were ugly?

Slack wasn't, I was as was Xanthippe and I still stand by that statement.  The runner isn't unattractive so much as scary looking.  She's got the crazy-eyes.

[Sky]

Just to remind all NY women...toplessness is NOT A CRIME IN NY.

Unfortunately, most men are total douchebags who confuse "lookee" with "touchee".

I'm a fan of nudity, anyway. Sure, I'd rather not see grossly obese people naked...but how can you make the natural human form illegal? That's fucking crazy talk. And law 

Fucking puritans.

[WayAbvPar]

They need to legalize motorboating now.

[Sky]

Or illegalize those goddamned jet skis. One or two people can ruin an idyllic day for everyone on a lake with those annoyingly loud piles of shit. Or leave them legal...but make it legal to snipe at them. Make it interesting.

[CmdrSlack]

Methinks that's not the kind of motorboating that Way had in mind. ;)

[Sky]

I realized that halfway through my minitirade. But any excuse to minitirade is good imo.