Are Airport Scanners Generating Low-Grade Porn?

The proliferation of airport body scanners will spark a flurry of low-grade porn, internet conspiracy theorists claimed last week.

But officials at Manchester Airport, where full body scanning is already due to be tested, have been quick to dismiss this as urban myth. Who to ignore?

A number of websites have suggested it is a simple enough matter to transform the slightly abstract, solarised images currently taken by airport scanners and turn them into slightly fuzzed smut.

This was the story that started to appear last week on sites such as Prison Planet, and which has been gaining ground across the world by the usual process of internet osmosis.

Manchester’s officials have countered, pointing out that the images being bounced around the net as examples of the alleged threat to personal privacy are nothing like the images created by scanning – and that no images are ever saved within the system.

“There is simply no potential for images captured by the scanners to be reversed,” a spokesman stated. “This very much looks to be a scare story. Besides, images taken by the scanners are not ever saved to any form of permanent medium, so there is no scope for images to be played with in this way.”

The spokesman also confirmed that the scheme currently being piloted at Manchester airport will not involve the scanning of any children under the age of 18.

Naked Man Speaks Out After Arrest

A Virginia man arrested for being naked in his own home says the story, which is making headlines across the country and on the internet, is tearing his life apart.

Eric Williamson admits he was naked inside his Springfield home eating breakfast and making coffee. He says it was completely innocent and he never exposed himself — but Fairfax County Police disagree.

Police claim the commercial diver stood naked in front of a doorway and a living room window as a woman walked by with her young son.

Williamson says his life has fallen apart since Fairfax County Police entered the home where he lived and charged him with indecent exposure. Not only was he photographed and fingerprinted, but Williamson claims police called his employer.

“Before I was even out of jail they called my place of work,” Williamson said. “My place of work had phoned me before I was even out of jail saying I need to leave the house immediately  — not able to afford the bad publicity.”

Williamson says police barged into the house without a warrant, and with guns drawn took him to jail.

The 29-year-old divorced father of a 5-year-old girl says he would never do what police say he did.

“It’s not an ant farm — I’m in my home, I’m not expecting to have people watching me constantly, and so I never stood in front of a window for any particular purpose,” he said. “I was packing boxes and getting ready to move, and that’s all that happened — made coffee, made breakfast.”

But at least one person has pointed the finger at Williamson, claiming he deliberately exposed himself. Since then, police have canvassed the neighborhood looking for anyone else who may have witnessed the alleged behavior.

Fairfax County Police say they stand by the arrest, and they’ll take the evidence they have against Williamson to court with them.

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Teacher ‘In Trouble’ Over Naked Pictures

A series of steamy naked photographs in Australian Penthouse may have cost a young Kiwi primary school teacher her career.

The New Zealand Teachers Council is investigating 26-year-old Rachel Whitwell after she appeared in the “New Aussie Babes” section of the magazine’s website professing to love pornography.

The shots show Whitwell kneeling seductively in front of a piano and frolicking in a spa, and quote the woman, nicknamed “Lexy”, as saying: “I am a 26-year-old single school teacher from New Zealand that would love to get into modelling.”

“I’ve written erotic stories for an R-rated magazine and run my own pole dancing studio.”

Whitwell, who is the girlfriend of Kiwi multimillionaire porn movie distributor Steve Crow, appears in six photos in all, including two totally naked.

New Zealand’s Teachers Council director Peter Lind said an investigation was underway to see whether she should be struck off the teaching register.

“What is private and what is public is always a grey area but when they intersect we investigate,” Mr Lind said.

“When a teacher is in the public arena we must say that it does impact on their ability to do their job.”

But Whitwell, who is taking a break from teaching to spend time with her young daughter, told New Zealand’s Sunday News she didn’t know what all the fuss was about.

“I didn’t think that anyone from New Zealand would see them.”

She argued that naked images did not change the fact that she was a good teacher.

“People will vouch I’m a really good teacher,” she told the newspaper.

“My ability to teach and have good relationships with students is not affected.”

Naked Man Accused Of Pounding On Cars

A man who told officers he was a medical marijuana provider has been arrested for allegedly standing naked in a Colorado highway, pounding on passing cars and spitting at a state trooper.

Dustin Robbins, 27, of Westminster, faces 13 counts including indecent exposure, assault and driving under the influence of marijuana.

Robbins was arrested Sept. 25 on U.S. 34 east of Greeley. Witnesses told investigators he was cursing at cars and hitting some.

Two women in their 70s and 80s told deputies a naked man jumped on the hood of their car, broke windows, walked across the roof and jumped off the back. Damage was estimated at $1,200.

Authorities said Robbins spat on the state trooper who arrested him.

Deputies said he told them he was a medical marijuana provider, and they found certificates for medical marijuana but no state provider’s license.

State officials said records of licensed providers aren’t public.

Robbins is jailed under $50,000 bail. No phone listing could be found for him and it wasn’t known if he had a lawyer.

Brooke Shields Photo Deemed Possible Child Pornoagraphy

In an echo of the controversial Bill Henson case in Australia, the Tate Modern gallery in London has withdrawn a controversial work depicting a naked 10-year-old Brooke Shields after a police visit raised concerns it could be deemed child pornography.

The picture, which shows Shields standing naked and with an oiled torso in a bathtub, was created by the American artist Richard Prince from a photograph originally shot in 1975 by a commercial photographer, Gary Gross.

Shields’s mother had commissioned the image in her effort to launch her daughter as a child star. The photo was later published in a Playboy publication, Sugar ‘n’ Spice .

Shields made an unsuccessful attempt to buy back the negatives in 1981, but a judge ruled she was a ”hapless victim of a contract” that two ”grasping” adults had bound her to.

Tate curators had already chosen to hang the picture, Spiritual America , behind closed doors bearing a warning that the photo was ”challenging”. An essay in the exhibition catalogue by the exhibition’s curator, Jack Bankowsky, argues that the artist’s desire was not to spark the ”lubricious titillations” but that it was created to provoke thought about the child star’s story.

The image forms part of a new exhibition, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, which was due to open yesterday and which aims to explore the relationship between commercial and artistic images.

The Tate consulted lawyers before hanging the picture, which has not been seen in Britain. It has been shown in New York, where it attracted little attention.

As in the Henson case, it is understood police visited the gallery after reading media coverage and previews of the exhibition in newspapers.

Woman Finds US Capitol Police Officer In Her Bed

Arlington police say a U.S. Capitol Police officer was arrested when a woman came home to find the stranger passed out drunk in her bed.

Police said the 34-year-old man was still sleeping when officers arrived at the scene. Spokeswoman Crystal Nosal said the officer was charged with unlawful entry.

Police don’t know why the officer, who lives in Reston, picked the woman’s apartment to sleep, but investigators believe he came in through the front door.

Capitol Police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider said the officer is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal charges. Schneider said the agency will also conduct an investigation.

Feces-Covered Nude Man Jumps Into Neighbor’s Pool

A Florida man is facing charges after authorities said he was naked and covered in feces when he broke into a resident’s backyard and jumped into the pool.

A Martin County Sheriff’s Office report shows 21-year-old Robert Stark Higgins was charged with burglary to an occupied dwelling, disorderly conduct and misdemeanor theft.

The resident told deputies he heard Higgins crash through the screen of his pool and take a splash Saturday night. Authorities said Higgins took a towel and fled. Deputies used a K-9 to track Higgins to a home. Higgins told deputies he had been drinking.

He was being held at the Martin County Jail on $10,500 bail. Jail officials said he did not immediately have an attorney.

Mother’s Naked Man Episode Finally Explained

Calling all Mother lovers!  Season 4 of ‘How I Met Your Mother’  is now on DVD shelves, but before you buy, check out this exclusive commentary clip from the notorious ‘Naked Man’ episode.

Yeah, you remember him. He’s the guy who strips down spontaneously to save a bad date. It works two times out of three, he says.

In the clip, the producers chat about the inspiration behind the Naked Man (no, they did not make it up) and give pointers on what not to do if you’re considering trying it.

Pizza Delivery Person Complains Of Naked Customer

A pizza delivery person bringing an order to a Portsmouth, NH residence was met by a naked man for the fourth time, say police.

According to the city’s public police log, police were called to a Holiday Drive residence where the delivery person said “when they deliver pizza there the resident comes to the door naked.” Police Lt. Rodney McQuate said the delivery person has encountered the naked resident during four different pizza deliveries, but did not wish to press charges.

A patrolman who was dispatched to the call “spoke to the suspect about his behavior” and “there will not be any more deliveries to this address from the reporting party,” according to the police report.

McQuate said the report will remain on file at police headquarters and that no other restaurants making home deliveries have filed similar complaints.

Karina Smirnoff Goes Naked In New PETA Ad

 Karina Smirnoff bares all in a new PETA ad.

USA Today reports that the Dancing With The Stars stunner, 31 – who just called off her engagement to Maksim Chmerkovskiy — appears in the “I’d Rather Dance Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign. The ad was shot by celebrity photographer Robert Sebree.

“I did wear fur, especially when I was growing up in the Ukraine,” she says.

She says stopped wearing it after seeing video footage of baby seals who were killed for their skins.

It’s cruel “when we take advantage of an innocent animal that cannot defend herself,” she says.

Adds Smirnoff,  ”There are ways of being warm and being fashionable without being cruel.”