ကိုကြီးဇော် ( မုန်တိုင်း )

         ေပါ့လန္း- ေမာ္ေတာ္ကားျဖင့္ ေမာင္းႏွင္သြားလာျခင္းအစား စက္ဘီးစီးသူပုိမ်ားလာေစရန္ ဆႏၵျပသည့္ (၁၁) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ကမၻာ့အ၀တ္ဗလာျဖင့္ စက္ဘီးစီးေန႔တြင္ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံ ေအာ္ရီဂြန္ျပည္နယ္ ေပါ့လန္းၿမိဳ႕၏ လမ္းမမ်ားတြင္ အ၀တ္ဗလာျဖင့္ လူေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာသည္ စက္ဘီးမ်ား စီး၍ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကသည္။
(Reuters) - Thousands of bicyclists, many of them stark naked, poured into the streets of Portland, Oregon on Saturday night for the 11th annual World Naked Bike Ride, a protest that promotes bike riding as an alternative to driving cars.


        ၎တို႔သည္ စက္ဘီးတာယာမ်ားတြင္ တပ္ထားေသာ မီးမ်ားဖြင့္၍ ေခါင္းေလာင္းမ်ားတီးကာ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကၿပီး ပရိသတ္မ်ားက ၾသဘာေပးခဲ့သည္။
Nude cyclists with lights flashing in their tire spokes rang bells as they barreled down avenues lined with cheering spectators, while a naked, apparently pregnant woman rode in a bike trailer.
 
           အလားတူ ဆႏၵျပပဲြမ်ားကို အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံရွိ ၿမိဳ႕ေပါင္း ၇၅ ၿမိဳ႕ႏွင့္ အျခားႏိုင္ငံေပါင္း ၂၀ တို႔တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ေပါ့လန္းၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ယမန္ႏွစ္က ဆႏၵျပသူ ၈၀၀၀ ခန္႔ရွိၿပီး အင္အားအမ်ားဆံုး ျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။
The rides are held in more than 75 U.S. cities and in more than 20 other countries, but Portland's is believed to be the largest, with more than 8,000 participants last year.
 
            သို႔ေသာ္ အျခားၿမိဳ႕မ်ားတြင္ကဲ့သို႔မဟုတ္ဘဲ ေပါ့လန္းၿမိဳ႕ စက္ဘီးစီးခ်ီတက္မႈမွာ ေဒသဆိုင္ရာ ရဲတပ္ဖဲြ႕ႏွင့္ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ဆႏၵျပပဲြတစ္ခုအျဖစ္ အမ်ားက မွတ္ယူၾကသည္။
But unlike events in other cities, the Portland ride works with local police, being considered as a protest. Officers direct traffic during what is generally a trouble-free event.
 

ယခု ဆႏၵျပပဲြမွာ စက္ဘီးစီးသူမ်ား၏ ထိခိုက္လြယ္မႈကို ျပသျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

‘‘ေဘးပတ္၀န္းက်င္က လူနည္းနည္းေလာက္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ဆီ တိုင္ထားပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ အားလံုးၿခံဳၾကည့္ရင္ စိုးရိမ္စရာ ကိစၥ မ်ားမ်ားစားစား မရွိပါဘူး’’ ဟု ရဲတပ္ဖဲြ႕ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ ပီတာဆင္ဆြမ္က ယင္းစက္ဘီးစီးဆႏၵျပပဲြ မတိုင္မီ ေျပာၾကားၿပီး မိမိအေနျဖင့္ အေကာင္းဆံုး အႀကံေပးလိုသည္မွာ အ၀တ္ဗလာျဖင့္ စက္ဘီးစီးဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို မျမင္ေတြ႕လိုသူမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ အိမ္အျပင္မထြက္ၾကရန္ပင္ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ၎က ထပ္ေလာင္းေျပာၾကားသည္။
"We've had a few complaints from neighbors but overall not many issues of concern," said police spokesman Sgt. Peter Simpson before the ride, adding "for residents who don't want to see it, the best advice is to just not go outside."

Jennifer Young, 40, who was at the ride with her 16-year-old son and was painted blue head to toe with fairy wings on her back, saw the goal as showing cyclists' vulnerability, saying "I think it's a little more evident when we're naked."
Neighbors looked on as a marching band played and dancers kicked off the start. Later a naked punk band jammed from the sidelines as bikers rolled past.
Fred Tebo, 90, wasn't sure want to think of the hoards of naked people in the park across the street from the house he has lived in since 1971.
"It's entertaining and it's stupid at the same time," he said, sitting on his steps. But a few minutes later he let a young woman and man clad in their underwear use his bathroom.