I feel so sorry for this man.

I remember my daughter and I were flashed. I had worked one Good Friday at my job at a Doctors' Deputising Service - it had been a very busy and somewhat fraught shift. My head was spinning. When I got home at 2pm, my daughter who was about 17 yrs old at the time, suggested we walk the dogs down the Chine to clear my head and relax me. Just as we walked across the bridge to head down the chine there was a man exposing himself and giving himself a good time. It was the last straw, I just went mental. I started yelling at him with pure rage that he could do this to us and he shot off with me hurling dog leads and dog treats after him - the dogs thought it was game and barked with joy and tackled the treats - they were Labs after all. I called the police when we got home and a chap came around to interview us - he said my yelling was the best thing I did as they get off on the woman looking upset not a raging harpy.

The difference between psychotic and neurotic is that psychotic people don't realise that they're psychotic [at least I think that's what I read once]. Now, I know I'm neurotic, but then I worry that I'm actually psychotic but don't realise it .

I guess she's like me and just enjoying the show

And you are good light relief, johanna

Which half are you aligning yourself with johanna

Oh, God, another Classic.
Half the world is stark raving mad, and the other half of the world remains kind towards them.
I am getting tired of it.

Need to design a sort of rucksack that he can wear on his belly when near people to cover his bits that are causing the problem but wear on his back when wandering about on his own. Does seem odd though to say he has no mental health issues!

I wondered about the shoes. And why doesn't his rucksack give him blisters?

Don't think he'd accept one of those, nanaej, otherwise he would have agreed to cover it up before now. It's obviously a matter of principle to him that he's completely naked. (Apart from backpack, of course - and does he wear shoes? )

Yes, just a tiny scrap if material would save all that bother, wouldn't it? He could walk about unchallenged then.

I can see that when.

I'm surprised they don't bring him south though. Get him off their hands if nothing else.

I'll shut up about him now.

Perhaps someone should offer him one of those penis guards made out of gourds..I have one a friend bought back for my OH from Namibia! or a loin cloth..such as images of Jesus on the cross is often depicted wearing.. a compromise!

Did anyone see the "Hotel Inspector" episode with the naturist spa and hotel?

Probably not Jingle but then the next one along is less likely to be harmless and desensitising a child to accept inappropriate male nudity is risky. Many children who are groomed for abuse in families have been gradually desensitised by exposing them to nudity, getting them used to bathing and sharing beds with adults as they get older, and removing any privacy for the child. Children who learn where the boundaries are, are less likely to willingly walk into risky situations. Sad, innit?

Would it really harm a child if they saw him? He's just a human being. He doesn't walk around with an erect penis.

Something has got to be 'stuck' in his head. Why can't the Scottish police put him a police van and bring him down south? Deliver him to his mum's door?

I gather he's a naturist. He's making a point but doesn't seem to think he should conceal his bits when pollce approach. Does he ensure children aren't inadvertently coming across him? I understand most naturists are careful about where they remove their clothes. I get his wish to walk the length and breadth of Britain unfettered by clothing, but it does seem a bit one way for him. If the public can tolerate him walking in the countrside au naturelle, could he be more tolerant of the concern that people who don't know him will experience?

I had read, when he was last released from prison, that he was hoping to get back to see his family. I'm sorry he didn't manage to do that. However, he knew the consequences which would ensue soon after he took his clothes off again, and chose not to compromise, so I don't have that much sympathy with him. He's a grown man with (they say) no mental issues, so he must realise that whatever his personal views, society doesn't accept naked men rambling around the countryside. (Or women, but there don't seem to be any of those!)

This man isn't a flasher. He's just claiming what he feels should be his right - to go naked.

Can't be right to keep him incarcerated for that. He hasn't harmed anyone.

You might know I'd have something to say about 'flashers.' They are not all the mild-mannered oddbods who will run a mile if you shout 'boo' at them. Some expose themselves as part of a wide repertoire of sexual offending, and when being treated for their convicted behaviour may reveal some very strange deviant fantasies and behaviour, and many have graduated to serious sexual assault. The drive to do it is sexual release from shocking an unsuspecting passerby, so you can imagine that they use the memory of the shock on the person's face to get that release afterwards.....a similar drive to that of sexual attackers of strangers. It takes planning and front to single out a potential victim, do the deed and make a safe escape. For some, it's a daily habit.

Many flashers go on to commit more serious crimes if they are not stopped, so it should always be reported.

nellie good for you!

When I was around seven I was out with a group of friends including a baby in a pram (why did they let us do that?) when we were flashed at by a man standing under a railway bridge. We younger ones wanted to go back to see what he was doing, but the older girl in charge wouldn't let us

Littlenellie

Well you can gaurentee nellie will come up with a statement like that can't we. lol

I was flashed at whilst walki g home from my evening shift in the pub that I worked for part time "what do you think this is" he asked ..I answered "looks like a penis...but smaller" be crept away very much deflated....