MOTORISTS GET EYEFUL OF BUMPER TO BUMPER

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, February 20, 1993                   TAG: 9302200219
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: GREENSBORO, N.C.                                LENGTH: Short
MOTORISTS GET EYEFUL OF BUMPER TO BUMPER
Rush-hour traffic was backed up for three miles on Interstate 40 in Greensboro because of two camera buffs, including one from Blacksburg, Va.
Greensboro police Sgt. Ramon Bell was on his way home from work with his wife around 5 p.m. Wednesday when they hit the snag and pulled over.
They saw a woman, nude except for a blue ski cap, lying across the hood of a car. Another woman, who was clothed, was snapping pictures.
"My wife said, `Good Lord, she doesn't have any clothes on,' " Bell said. "I said, `I noticed that, honey.' "
Traffic was backed up for three miles in both directions, and Bell said cars had completely stopped in the eastbound lanes of I-40, where the women were.
Nellie Appleby, 19, of Blacksburg, and Eliesha Grant, 21, of New York, were cited for impeding traffic. Police were considering more charges.
The women are Guilford College students, and they say they told police they took the pictures for a photography class. Grant had been nude a few minutes before, and Appleby took pictures of her.
"We had a really good time," Appleby said Thursday. "I thought people would think we were strange, but I didn't think they'd get uptight about it." Both students said they might enter the pictures in art shows.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB