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Israeli tourist strips naked in anger at New Zealand men's whistles
The Associated Press, 22 May 2008
WELLINGTON, New Zealand: An Israeli tourist who felt harassed when New Zealand road workers whistled at her Thursday stripped naked in response, police said.
Workmen in the small northern farming town of Kerikeri were repairing the main street when the young woman took offense at their attention.
On a balmy late-autumn day, she calmly stripped bare to use an ATM - bringing an abrupt halt to both the whistles and the road work - then put her clothes back on and walked away.
Sgt. Peter Masters said the woman told police she didn't take kindly to the men's wolf-whistles.
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"She was taken back to the police station and spoken to and told that was inappropriate (behavior) in New Zealand," he added.
I may be wrong, but performing a public striptease doesn't strike me as a particularly effective way of persuading these workmen their own actions were innapropriate and / or discouraging a repetition of same.