Portland police arrest naked violinist

[sprite75]

Portland.  Naked man.  Violin.

A naked man playing a violin outside of a courthouse in Portland was arrested Friday afternoon after numerous complaints and warnings, police say.

The man said his name was Matthew Thomas Mglej and that he is 25 years old, although police have not confirmed his identity.

The man was jailed for indecent exposure under Portland city code, which states that it is "unlawful for any person to expose his or her genitalia while in a public place or place visible from a public place, if the public place is open or available to persons of the opposite sex," according to a statement from the Portland Police Bureau.

[indianasmith]

He was just trying to rosin his bow . . .

[Jack]

Was his violin playing really that bad?

[Bushma]

It's actually not illegal to be nude in Portland as long as you aren't trying to sexually arouse yourself or someone else, so I wonder if that indecent exposure charge is going to stick or not.

[Trevor]

It's actually not illegal to be nude in Portland as long as you aren't trying to sexually arouse yourself or someone else, so I wonder if that indecent exposure charge is going to stick or not.

Even if it doesn't, if it's cold there, something else certainly will. 

[sprite75]

It's actually not illegal to be nude in Portland as long as you aren't trying to sexually arouse yourself or someone else, so I wonder if that indecent exposure charge is going to stick or not.

Even if it doesn't, if it's cold there, something else certainly will. 

Especially since he doesn't have fine Trevorian underwear to keep his man parts safe.

[Trevor]

It's actually not illegal to be nude in Portland as long as you aren't trying to sexually arouse yourself or someone else, so I wonder if that indecent exposure charge is going to stick or not.

Even if it doesn't, if it's cold there, something else certainly will. 

Especially since he doesn't have fine Trevorian underwear to keep his man parts safe.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Does that mean if I want to play a musical instrument in the nude in public in Portland, I'll have to give up the violin for the cello? And I can only play when there are no women present, but only men. What is the fun in that?