{"id":81407,"date":"2018-09-26T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81407"},"modified":"2018-09-26T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:40:41","slug":"major-bummer-sri-lanka-police-crack-down-on-social-media-mooners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/26\/major-bummer-sri-lanka-police-crack-down-on-social-media-mooners\/","title":{"rendered":"Major bummer: Sri Lanka police crack down on social media mooners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"container-3zJLP vertical-2XJd5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"imageCaption\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Mail on line<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The trio were accused of desecrating a Buddhist site after they pulled down their pants for a cheeky picture against the backdrop of the famous Sigiriya rock, a UNESCO site set in the middle of a jungle in central Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three men who exposed themselves near a Sri Lankan temple and posted the images online were arrested on Wednesday, as a social media &#8220;mooning&#8221; fad sweeps the island and angers its conservative Buddhist clergy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e4f8d3c2140e5f43\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1\/2018\/09\/26\/15\/wire-4564248-1537972640-619_634x414.jpg\" alt=\"The trio were accused of desecrating a Buddhist site after they pulled down their pants for a cheeky picture against the backdrop of the famous Sigiriya rock, a UNESCO site set in the middle of a jungle in central Sri Lanka\" width=\"634\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trio, aged between 18 and 19, were accused of desecrating a Buddhist site after they pulled down their pants for a cheeky picture against the backdrop of the famous Sigiriya rock, a UNESCO site set in the middle of a jungle in central Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The images of the trio sparked a flurry of complaints from Buddhist monks after they were uploaded to Facebook, as they had taken the photos from a smaller rock temple overlooking the Sigiriya rock fortress. They were quickly tracked down by the police.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the trio were inspired by &#8220;Cheeky Exploits&#8221;, an Instagram account with more than a quarter of a million followers that features bare-bottomed pictures from beauty spots around the world.<\/p>\n<p>They will be prosecuted Thursday under the country&#8217;s obscenity laws which prohibit lewd behaviour in the Buddhist-majority island, particularly near religious sites.<\/p>\n<p>Similar images uploaded by other &#8220;mooners&#8221; from landmarks around the country were being hastily deleted Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>One man, who bared his bottom to Sri Lanka&#8217;s parliament, deleted a widely-shared picture from his profile amid the police crackdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Mail on line The trio were accused of desecrating a Buddhist site after they pulled down their pants for a cheeky picture against the backdrop of the famous Sigiriya rock, a UNESCO site set in the middle of a jungle in central Sri Lanka Three men who exposed themselves near a Sri Lankan temple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}