My Wall Street Arrest

The Story Of My Wall Street Arrest:
No, this wasn't a protest and this was at least monthly before occupy wall street even existed. No, I was not trying to leap the fence before the NY Stock Exchange to get back lost funds. I was acting in part of an art performance called Ocularpation! https://s3.amazonaws.com/beach-naturist/nude-beach-upskirt-sun.html contrived by artist Zefrey Throwell. As you might seen from our places last week, Zefrey contacted us looking for folks comfortable with public nudity to participate in his next artistic endeavor. (And what better people to contact than Nudist Portal?)
The performance took place this morning on Wall Street at 7:00 am. 50 people took part, all role-playing the various occupations on Wall Street, from janitor to fitness educator to financial advisor. Zefrey was actually inspired for the project by his mum who lost all her retirement money in the stock market crash in 2008 and found herself broke and unemployed in her 60's; a demanding place to be in. His thought was to expose the mysterious inner workings of Wall Street and make people think about what really occurs there day-to-day.
I decided to sign up and was even more pleased once I recognized the jobs were going to reflect the genuine employment demographics. I played dogwalker, which represents 2% of Wall St workers. We met in the park first. We soon headed to our assigned places on the street.
At young blonde beach began walking my invisible dog. "Come on doggie!" I took off my tank top and actually started getting into my job. "Good boy, good boy!" Go put your top back on!" I immediately complied, after which to my surprise, he detained me. Here is fundamentally our dialogue that followed..
Arrested On Wall Street
Policeman, putting on the handcuffs- "Here you go, is that what you needed??"
Me- "No"
Officer- "What is all this going on?"
Me- "It's an art performance."
Officer- "This is not art, this is retarded!"
Me- "That's subjectiveIsn't it legal for me to be topless anyplace in NYC?"
Officer- "Yeah right what would you believe you're doin' walkin around topless like you are walking a dog. You need to come with me and be mentally assessed, then after that perhaps you'll be free to go. It's retarded, this can be merely dumb pretending to walk a dog free of shirt on. There are kids around." (I didn't see one child during this performance.)
Me- "Sometimes people pretend to do things in artwork"
My Wall Street Arrest Narrative
He grabbed my property and brought me to sit with 2 other guys in handcuffs. They were a stock trader and a janitor who'd absolutely stripped down during the 5 minute operation.
My fellow jailbirds also got indecent exposure charges. Just before we were released, an officer (I consider the same one I talked to previously) reasserted his opinion that we should've all been mentally assessed first. Alas, his opinion was disregarded, and they gave us back our stuff, like the janitor broom and my makeshift leash, now bent up and distorted.
However, pertaining to me personally, I have no idea what laws I broke or why I was even arrested. Thus far no one, not even the cops themselves, could describe to me what I did wrong.
My Wall Street Arrest by Felicity Joneswas released by - Young Naturists And Naturists America FKK
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