Ticketed For Being Nude on Net

If it isn't illegal (yet) to appear nude on the Net, how do you get a ticket for doing it? Easy enough in the home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers: pose for the pictures in a downtown bar, where it just so happens to be against the law.

That's what happened to Melissa Harrington, when the 21-year-old woman was handed a ticket for posting nude images of herself that were taken in the Marz Intergalactic Shrimp and Martini Bar. She faces a January 29 arraignment in Lancaster County Court and up to six months behind bars and a $500 fine if she's convicted in the case.

"They're not going to stop me from doing what I'm doing," Harrington told the Associated Press. "I enjoy what I do and they really don't have any grounds" to prosecute her.

Tell that to Lincoln police chief Tom Casady. "It's unlawful to be naked in public in Lincoln," he told the AP.

By profession a Web designer for a local bank, Harrington posted on her Website that she likes being naked in public, "even more when there's a lot of people there to watch." The site is said to link to another site purporting to show explicit images of college students in Nebraska. None of them have been ticketed, Casady told the AP, because it wasn't quite clear where they were photographed.

Casady also told the news wire his department would contact Nebraska's Liquor Control Commission to determine if the Marz Intergalactic Shrimp and Martini Bar violated any state laws in the incident.