HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - If a Canadian woman wanted to "express herself"
by sunbathing topless, she shouldn't have done it atop a boat in waters off Macomb
County.
Tania Stacy Clark, 27, of Riverside, Ontario, was arrested Saturday and charged
with disorderly conduct after she was spotted sunbathing topless on a boat docked
off Metro Beach.
Police said Ms. Clark was asked twice to cover up.
"There are places women can, as they say, express themselves, but Metro Beach
is not one of them," said Macomb County Sheriff's Lt. Callen Eschenburg.
Ms. Clark faces a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $100 fine if convicted.
"I didn't think I was doing anything wrong," Ms. Clark, 27, told The Macomb
Daily in a story Tuesday. "In Windsor it is perfectly legal for a woman to
walk down the street topless.
"The police told me they got a lot of complaints from women who objected to
what I was doing. I don't think the men were complaining."
Ms. Clark, the mother of a 4-year-old daughter, said she realized men with their
wives or girlfriends were staring at her.
She said women often walk around topless in the Windsor suburb where she lives.
A December 1996 ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeals made it legal for women in
the province to bare their breasts in public.