Nantucket has the thin on the island going topless this summer time.
“We haven’t received a single call complaining about it,” Nantucket Police Department spokesman Lt. Angus MacVicar instructed the Herald.
“I’m not saying people haven’t gone topless,” he rapidly added, however nobody has dialed 911 to name out any untoward publicity. The police logs have been peppered with deer strikes, animal bites, parking infractions, and noise complaints — it’s a trip hotspot, so that you’d count on a couple of of these.
Other blotter objects embody intoxicated bar crawlers, disorderly patrons, marine violations, and loads of motion alongside the wharf. Sewer overflows have plagued the island, like the remainder of the area, from all of the rain.
But no complaints about girls going bare-chested to keep away from tan traces.
“We would get calls if it was inappropriate,” the lieutenant added, saying if youngsters had been round a father or mother would most likely name. So far, they haven’t.
Nantucket Sheriff James Perelman agrees. He additionally studies fears of the tony island changing into a seaside strip membership haven’t materialized. He’s questioning if the COVID restrictions being lifted have despatched vacationers again to Europe the place there are many topless spots.
“I don’t go to the beach,” the sheriff added, so he hasn’t caught any topless habits on the whole.
Lt. MacVicar added the concerns about “buses or boats” diverting to Nantucket for some ogling have confirmed “a bit ridiculous.”
As the Herald has reported, Nantucket Town Meeting members handed the topless bylaw 327 to 242 a 12 months in the past. Then-Attorney General Maura Healey backed the legality of the bylaw in December earlier than altering over to the governor’s workplace.
Healey’s AG workplace acknowledged: “We approve the Town’s vote authorizing any person to go topless on any public or private beach in Nantucket because we discern no conflict” with the structure.
Alas, John Adams didn’t see this one coming when he penned the Massachusetts Constitution.
The Town Meeting members additionally banned sizzling tubs and spas within the downtown and historic districts and oust fertilizer island-wide, except for farmland, to assist preserve the harbor clear.
The city on its web site has stated there could be an adjustment interval to the topless bylaw. “We ask everyone to be patient and respectful as the island adapts to this first-of-its-kind bylaw in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
A public information request made to Nantucket officers by the Herald this summer time got here again with no new updates to the bylaw.
So it appears the stripped-down Town Meeting article stays in play with no complaints on file.
As for sharks, they don’t seem to be avoiding the island.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”