Non-Topless Protest: NYC Female Hipsters Don Fake Breasts

Update: More here with a better illustration. ha

Not sure if female hipsters donning fake breasts for what was to be a topless protest due to the cold is silly, redundant, or an improvement. Perhaps it's all of the above? Nevertheless, without reactive nipples, I'm not buying it. Excusing those who make a living as couriers, I've never understood the compulsion to exercise, thereby pulling in deep breaths, in traffic. At least they filter out some carbon. Maybe they should be granted carbon tax exempt status for that? Get enough of them, they might just offset Al Gore's so-called footprint.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bicyclists who planned to go topless to protest the removal of a Brooklyn bike lane switched gears Saturday, pinning plastic breasts to their jackets as they rolled into a snowstorm.

Dozens of bikers joined a protest called the "Freedom Ride" to oppose the removal of a bike path in Williamsburg, an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood.

But the fierce snowstorm in New York kept them from pedaling topless as planned.

The hipster cyclists blame Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the loss of the lane because Williamsburg's Hasidic Jewish residents "can't handle scantily clad women" on wheels, said bike messenger Heather Loop, who organized the action.

The bikers' tactics did not amuse some faithful Hasids leaving synagogue services with their families on the Sabbath. They rushed home.

Bloomberg had removed the bike path because members of the Satmar branch of Judaism "don't want to see women in shorts," said Baruch Herzfeld, who runs a bike-sharing program in a community where Jewish women wear hefty skirts and long-sleeved blouses and men wear heavy coats and hats, even in summer.

Comments

[leishman]

Well, if you want your religion respected, you've just got to cut a few bicyclists's heads off.

[Lala]

This boob has her fake boobs on

http://gothamist.com/2009/12/19/top-less_bedford_bike_lane_protest.php?gallery0Pic=2#gallery

[ginko biloba]

I am sooo proud that HRO comes out of FLRDA. It makes me feel more authentic abt living in YYZ and not NYC or LDN. Sharing a homebase with Will Smith’s fave city (via the 1998 hit “Miami”) is alt-est thing since irony.