Due to the intense heat wave, teens have resorted to going around and playing games in the bohemian town of Brattleboro in the nude.

No one has been arrested or ticketed yet as public nudity isn't illegal unless done to arouse sexual gratification.

Vermont has been known to have a live-and-let-live tradition that does not forbid skinny-dipping and nude sunbathing.

The town itself is composed of a community of writers, artists and musicians as well tranferees from Boston and New York. A couple of dozen teens had started doing hula hoop contests, riding bikes and walking around shops in their birthday suits.

One local, Theresa Toney, approached the town government to file a complaint about a group of teens naked in a parking lot.

"The parking lot is not a strip club," she said. "What about children seeing this?"

Town officials have taken action to draft an ordinance to ban such public displays for the Select Board voting in September. Some teens have staged a nude sit-in as protest.

"I don't see why it's such a big deal," said Alec McPherson, a recent high school graduate looking at a thick volume of artwork from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Everyone's naked in this book."

Jeremiah Compton, a high school junior who plays in a local metal-and-punk band, agreed.

"It's just that we're bored and expressing our right," he said.

"We have a nuclear power plant a few miles away and a ridiculous war in the Middle East, countries getting bombed," said Ian Bigelow, 23. "So why's it such a big problem if we chose to get nude?"