[OKDXA] Speaking Of Running Barefoot...

[Nelson Derks]

BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- Female streakers: On your marks, get set, go.

A judge ruled that two undergraduates at the University of Maine did not
violate the state's indecent conduct law by jogging naked.

Debra Ballou, of Island Falls, and Kathryn Mann, of Fayetteville, N.Y., won
the case without hiring a lawyer and by asking just one question of the
prosecution's only witness.

Maine law states that people are guilty of indecent conduct only when they
"knowingly expose their genitals in public."

Ballou, 20, asked the arresting officer whether he saw her genitals Nov. 2.

"Not that I recall," replied Orono police officer John Ewing.

"That's all I have," Ballou told the court.