Not a very exciting story, I know, but this article includes an off hand reference to Portland's World Naked Bike Ride from the perspective of a police officer assigned to cover it. He say's "if I can handle the WNBR, I can handle anything". Kind of a curious statement as I wouldn't think drawing WNBR duty would compare to say, drawing Hurricane Katrina duty, but you decide:
http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/...aked-bike-ride
Anyway, anything that keeps the WNBR in the public eye is a good thing, and I suspect that the officers comment was made partly in jest. Actually, though - I mean, I wonder how the cops really feel about drawing WNBR duty. Sure, there are the obvious "perks" but on the other hand, nobody likes to get cussed at by beautiful naked women. It must feel lousy to see them having such a great time, while you have to enforce all this protocol and everything. And whether its a political protest, street parade, WNBR or whatever - crowd control is crowd control, and cops are always the bad guys.
Klondike