North Carolina beach town bans thongs

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(CNN) -- If you plan on going to Kure Beach, North Carolina, bring your sunscreen and shades, but please leave your thong behind. :huh:

The seaside community has adopted a zero tolerance policy on anyone wearing the barely-there bikini by the shore on their part of North Carolina's Pleasure Island, just south of Wilmington.

"You can do what you want to in your own space," said Mayor Dean Lambeth, "but for public decency, keep it off the public beach."

Lambeth told CNN he and the town supervisors last week unanimously approved the ordinance banning the skimpy bathing wear.

"Everything we do is family oriented. We like the small town atmosphere," he said.

The decision to forbid thongs was triggered by a couple's recent inquiry about spending their honeymoon in Kure Beach, Lambeth said.

According to the mayor, the couple wanted to know if they could wear thongs. The man thought the town's policy on the matter was ambiguous, Lambeth said. After consulting with the police chief, he determined the ordinance should be amended to better address the issue.

Section 12-32 of the Code of the Town of Kure Beach, which was adopted on April 22, makes it illegal "for any person being naked or insufficiently clothed ... to bathe or swim in the Atlantic Ocean" or any other area within the town's jurisdiction. Sun-bathing "naked or insufficiently clothed" is also banned.

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[e-berlin.org]

And then we make Arab women to take their burqas off? Doesn't make sense to me.

[DavidM]

And then we make Arab women to take their burqas off? Doesn't make sense to me.

LOL! How do you go from removing a head scarf, to covering your ass? May be we can get the two groups together and the thong wearers could use the scarves to cover themselves? :)

In my experience the people who wear thongs - should NOT be wearing them!

[Nick H. Supervisor]

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Nooooo!

Thank god I don't live there. This is one of the reasons to enjoy the summer time! :laugh:

makes it illegal "for any person being naked or insufficiently clothed ... to bathe or swim in the Atlantic Ocean"

Interesting place for the quotes to end. It should probably have been rewritten as "for any person being naked or insufficiently clothed ... to bathe or swim in the town's jurisdiction of the Atlantic Ocean." But that's just me nit-picking :p

[alfaaqua]

I understand the rule :) People will go to another beach but hey, if they want 0 nudity then thats the way to go.

[zeta_immersion]

boooooo, wtf is this?

have they changed into some hypocrite society where the love for women and their body has gone down the drain? ... I have yet to see women being forced to wear something they do not like (in a civilized country) which includes and not limited to thongs. If she is not comfortable with it then she is not going to wear it. Besides, what is up with this stupid law for "family" oriented?! ... f-ing retarded good example being Europe, topless beaches and thong wearing hot women where men have to stay in the water for most of the time .. and there is no problem with the family, if they do not like it then

1. leave the damn kid home (or do not make one as if you have a choice i know)

2. go to other beaches which are family oriented (as in 40+ with grandmas and grandpas drinking martinis)

seriously man, no thongs ... f-ing crazy ....

[Southern Patriot]

Never heard of this town, so it really doesn't matter all that much. There are plenty of other beach towns that happily allow thongs, so I couldn't care less.

[Richteralan]

yesh...nothing traumatizes a kid like a human body...

[Growled Member]

seriously man, no thongs ... f-ing crazy ....

Well, it is their beach and their town and their rules. We can always find another beach that does allow thongs.