ABritish naturist who likes to do his backyard gardening nude will stand trial next month on the charge of outraging public decency. The charges stem from complaints made not by his immediate neighbors, but from those living 150 meters away who filmed him from their balcony using a long-distance lens.Currently out on bail, Donald Sprigg, 62, has pleaded not guilty and denies that his behavior causes "harassment, alarm or distress" to residents near his home in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Sprigg claims that he only does his weeding and digging naked when he knows his next-door neighbors are away. He further denies committing "indecent" acts in his yard.
According to his attorney, Mohammed Iqbal, the neighbors who complained "must have a very good lens to be able to film him at that distance. [Sprigg] is surprised they are able to see whether he is clothed or not from that distance away," he said in a story in the DailyMail.co.uk.
Iqbal goes on to say his client takes reasonable precautions to ensure that no one would see him or be offended.
Another news site, News.gather.com, defends Sprigg's action, saying he "has the right to do whatever he wishes on his own property. . . . One has to wonder if neighbors would be forming the same sort of complaints if Sprigg was a strapping young man in his 20s or 30s. Would they, instead simply be enjoying the view?"
Nakedism agrees. If anyone is at fault here, it seems that blame should perhaps fall on the complaining neighbors for intruding on Sprigg's relative privacy with their telephoto lens.
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