Girls banned for flashing breasts

Two teen-age girls were banned from a church festival in Greenwood after flashing their breasts to get extended time on one of the amusment rides, police said.


Police Chief Joe Pitcher said a festival worker extended the carnival ride to more than 20 minutes for the girls, ages 17 and 18.
Officers assigned to festival security questioned the teens. Both admitted to pulling down their shirt tops while on the Orbiter ride at last weekend’s Our Lady of the Greenwood Catholic Church festival, a police report said.

The incident occurred late Saturday night after most people had left, police said.

Both girls were banned from the property for the remainder of the festival, which ended Sunday.

Rev. Jonathan Meyer, a priest at the church, said today he was unaware of the incident.

“It’s a shame these young women didn’t know the great gift and beauty they have as a woman,” Meyer said.

“The body is sacred and holy. We should be sad for them.”

Police called the 17-year-old girl’s parents to the church grounds.

The older girl was told if she returned to the festival she would be arrested for trespassing, Pitcher said.

No criminal charges will be sought, Pitcher said.