Wacky local tradition draws big crowds, annoys authorities
(NEWSER) - Killjoy cops in Boulder, Colo., plan to shut down the town's annual naked Halloween run tonight, dispatching 40 police officers to the four-block course, backed up, believe it or not, by SWAT teams. Tolerated for nearly a decade, the run aroused police ire last year when the ranks of streakers, who wear nothing but sneakers and pumpkins on their heads, swelled to 150. So this year the police chief plans to have runners arrested as sex offenders. More»