MASON CITY – A fundraiser for The Children’s Tumor Foundation was held Saturday in Mason City.
People in underwear ran about 1.5 miles in a loop from the Music Man Square to raise money. Teams and individuals participated in crazy bedroom attire an costumes. Only people over the age of 21 could participate in the “PG-13” event. Mason City police protected the route.
Local volunteers helped the event operate, and Loni Dirksen was the organizer. Cost to register on the day of the event was $50. Over $36,000 was raised for the charity.
“It’s pretty fun that Mayor Eric Bookmeyer came out to support the event! Big thanks to Mason City Police Department and Cerro Gordo County Sheriffs department for making sure everyone was safe while running! Can’t wait to start planning for next year!” Dirksen said via Facebook.
According to the event rule, “no thongs” were allowed and men were advised to “staple the little hole shut” on the front of their boxer shorts. One piece of advice for female participants went like this: “Ladies- some undies tend to hug every curve, particularly those that resemble a part of a mid-eastern animal. What we can recommend is to double up and wear two layers of undies in different colors.”
(Photos courtesy of David McCoy of Mason City)
Blimpmeyer hell no he won’t do this undie run he has got bigger boob’s then any lady.
Tell me, would you be terribly upset if a middle aged man wanked to the undie run?
I will have to admit I got several GREAT laughs reading some of the posts here!! My face seriously hurts from laughing. ….. and I am going to agree with Sucks on here. This man-made holiday called Valentine’s Day is all about businesses making up a day so guys and girls alike spend more unnecessary money!!! It is a complete and total joke. I will take it one step further and say that any more marriages have gotten completely out of control with the money being spent. $20,000-$30,000 on a wedding that has a 50% chance of failing??!?!….and even if the marriage does NOT fail, that is a ridiculous amount of money to spend. People and couples going into debt on wedding rings, rehearsal dinners, engagement rings, honeymoons, flowers, paying a videocamera person $500-$1,000 to camcord the wedding. It is just stupid….no other way to put it. If a person can afford to spend that kind of money and wants to then that is there own business, but for the people who can’t but just HAVE to have a big wedding with all the bells and whistles, please think about it before begging your parents to pay for this.
I’m all for the undie run if it takes the guilt shaming out of Valentines day. For years men were guilt shamed for not opening up their wallet on this holiday. What a crock of BS.
For the record, I don’t care about the Undie Run at all (in terms of it bothering me morally). I just want to set this society straight and make it aware of its inconsistencies, favoritism, and hypocrisies. I wouldn’t even care if they ran nude. But I want to make sure all people are granted that same opportunity, charity or not. I’ve also said similar things about the Church Service in Clear Lake’s City Park, and wondered if the City Council would approve if a Buddhist Group wanted to meet there, or even a Satanist group for that matter. I’m not intending to compare Buddhism with Satanism, but merely pointing out other types of faith, and wondering if this government will “pay no respect to an establishment of religion or prevent the free practice thereof”.
Please everyone stop bitching about the undie run, we have far more problems in this town. A little fun to help with a charity is great. Also go down to big blue on a nice hot weekend and see whats down there, no one gets arrested so everyone lets thank Loni for her hard work and for going above and beyond to get this in our so called famous city. Great job LONI and to everyone that help, donated and of course jogged in that cold snowy day.
1 Timothy 2:9
women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire
Deuteronomy 22:14-22
I hope your wife was a virgin when you married her.
Otherwise you better stone her.
She’s STILL a virgin! Ha!
There was nothing obscene or anti-christian about this event. No one was dressed in anything you wouldn’t see at the public pool or Big Blue. It raised money for a great cause and everyone had a good time. Great job and congratulations Loni.
Go to Trinity Lutheran Church Sunday morning in your underwear just as their service begins. I will wait outside with my camera to film the police arrest you and take you away in cuffs. Disagree with that outcome?
@Matt – You don’t have to go to church to be arrested for indecent exposure. Just run down any public street in any neighborhood in town and I would bet money you wouldn’t get two blocks before you are cuffed and on your way to jail
I agree. I am merely pointing out the extreme of the hypocrisy. A so-called Christian man in Eric Bookmeyer whose own police and church would castigate and possibly arrest people for the same actions as the fundraisers. Bookmeyer has proven again what a fraud he is.
@Matt-Well Hell, I already knew that.
We should start a CANNONBALL RUN and see who can make it from one end of town to the other totally naked without being arrested. Offer a prize of $10,000. Keep it underground. That would be hilarious, and probably draw a lot of attention and tourism to the town.
Rules:
1. Start at city limits of Highway 18, and end up at city limits of Highway 18 on opposite end of the city, either direction, completely naked but shoes allowed.
2. Travel by foot with no rides, no bicycles, no other mode of transportation besides your own feet.
3. Run must be made in full light of daytime, no sunrise or sunset, no night travel.
4. Run must be videotaped uninterrupted in its entirety by someone other than the runner.
5. Results must be confirmed by Chairman of the Committee. Money distributed at award ceremony.
7. Anyone caught will not be assisted or vouched for by Cannonball Run Committee.
8. No Flashing or wiggling to the Public.
With all the tourism in town eventually the word would leak out, besides there are some people that I would rather not see in their undies and I am one of them.
Read the rules again. No undies…buck cherry naked. And it’s not a sanctioned or scheduled event but an illegal under the radar Nudey Rudey sprint from one end of town to the other without getting caught. Large prize money because of the risk involved. It couldn’t be restricted to ending up where hi way 18 and the city limits converge because as soon as someone phoned in about a nude person running the cops would just show up at the finish line. It’d have to be any point along the border north to south or east to west.
I did read the rules, with extra tourism in town they would eventually be stopped by the cops for something and spill the beans, you can keep something like that a secret long. Plus when I said there is some that I wouldn’t like to see in their undees I was mainly talking about me because I wouldn’t go aunateral.
Come on Matt, you ran track in high school and college. Are you telling me you never went for a run in just shorts and sneakers? Maybe that’s why you were so fast…you were under constant threat of arrest. I do disagree with that outcome by the way, if in advance, I contacted the church, the police and the city government and explained that I was doing it to raise tens of thousands of dollars for Lutheran charities.
Come on Matt, you ran track in high school and college. Are you telling me you never went for a run in just shorts and sneakers? Maybe that’s why you were so fast…you were under constant threat of arrest. I do disagree with that outcome if I, like the organizer of Cupid’s Undie Run contacted the church, police and city government in advance to let them know I was doing this to raise tens of thousands of dollars for Lutheran charities. If you want to pony up 10K or so I’d be happy to put this challenge to the test.
Sorry, I didn’t have my named typed in the first time and I refuse to comment anonymously.
I am SERIOUSLY considering accepting that challenge. Anyone else wanna join me?
The church challenge, that is. 🙂
I’ll add my two-cents worth here since this topic has become a hot-button issue.
I don’t condone all the comments here, but I do sense some hypocrisy from our city and some who were involved.
First let me say, it is good to raise money for this cause. So to the donors, I say your intentions are in the right place and I hope the disease is eradicated.
Second, I do believe that if the common person appeared in public dressed as some of the participants, they would be arrested and committed to 5 East. You would raise more money in this town with a wet t-shirt contest or topless dancers; if you are going to go down the path of using human flesh to raise dollars, why not go all the way and open the former Other Place and let in the whores. Just a fact, chew on that one.
Third, the level of hypocrisy from so-called “Christians” like our rotund Mayor Eric Bookmeyer is staggering. He attended the event. Next time Eric is sitting in the pews of his Trinity Lutheran Church he should ask himself if Jesus would approve of mostly-naked people racing through the streets of town, right past the House of God. Was it true that some were consuming alcohol before and after the run? That would raise even more questions. Mr. Bookmeyer, are you a Christian all the time or just on Sundays or when it suits you?
Nice. Don’t forget…public hearing at Clear Lake City Hall tonite about the new economic development. 6:30pm. Be there! Cameras Rolling!
A reply to your reply. I am sure that there are a number of people who would find the una-bombers manifesto insightful as well philly is a fringe person who is paranoid of law enforcement, government, and a whole host of societies norms.
Also Matt I am sure you have heard of the game six degrees of Kevin Bacon, which is a game where you can connect about any person to Kevin Bacon. Your post about the undie run is a great example of that. Only you can go from talking about a fun run to raise big money for a charity, to suggesting the “big bad” powers that be start raising money by opening up a whore house, or hiring topless woman to entertain people as a fundraising event. Six degrees of Matt. And also since you brought Jesus into it. Jesus would approve of helping the sick and poor, Jesus would approve of people getting together to raise awareness, some day you will be face to face with him and he can explain it to you.
How is Philo a “fringe person”? Are you saying you are better than him?
I merely stated the fact that a gentlemen’s club would rake in way more cash than the undie run. It would be a huge cash cow if all the proceeds went to charity. I doubt Jesus would condone naked lawless behavior in order to raise money. I hear there was booze served too. You really think Jesus would be on board with all that? Wouldn’t he suggest a bake sale instead? Maybe a fishing tourney? A drunken undie run sounds more like something Eric Bookmeyer would have tried when he went to Luther College.
Christian Strip Joint Rules:
1) Gospel music shall be playing at all times
2) All orifices below the waist must be covered with fig leaves.
3) Talent may NOT wear wings while performing. EVER.
4) Laps must be sprinkled with Holy Water before receiving lap dances.
5) ALL staff will choose a Biblical “stage name”
NOTE: NOONE may assume the names God, Jesus, Lord, Lucifer, Satan, or McGoo.
6) PASTIES! PASTIES! PASTIES! (This means you, too, Eric “Exodus” Bookmeyer.)
7) 100% of tips are to be given during offerings, which will be held approx. every 24 minutes…give or take, depending on nightly quota.
8) Daycare provided by Eve in the Congregation Room from 11pm-7am Mon-Sat (NO EARLIER! NO LATER!)
9) If, Heaven forbid, you should become ill & unable to Praise by Pole, please notify Zacheus @ ext.69
10)Everyone must partake in a mandatory confession upon departure to insure a guilt-free conscience. (Tissues are provided in each booth.)
NO PICTURES OR VIDEO!
Attack people’s image all you want but these people big or small help raise 2.6 million dollars for research of a horrible genetic disorder. If you find the need to sit on your computer and mock someones image that’s on you but maybe you should look in the mirror. That person is doing something for charity while you’re sitting around trolling the internet.
And where is that 2.6 million going? Bureaucratic waste? I’ve got a better plan. Reduce worldwide pollution by ridding the world of fossil fuel consumption, stop dumping chemicals into our land, water and air, like what happened recently in West Virginia. Clean up our food supply, and eliminate the billions of dollars going to insurance companies and pour it into research and treatment directly.
Wake up.
Peter, do you know anything about the charity you are making fun of? One of these days they will find out whats wrong with you and take you in for treatment and low and behold find out that this charity pays for your treatment.
Slow down their Chopper. NO ONE is making fun of any charity, certainly not any charity that presumably helps children. Some of the comments got lowdown against larger women, but most focus on the photos and not the cause. But when pressed, you know I’ll go into detail. I certainly hope they find out what my condition is. Thus far $100,000 dollars in medical bills billed to my Anthem Blue Cross weren’t able to do squat. I’m basically treating myself with restricted diet (veganism), minimal caffeine, and Red Krill Oil (Seafood product hypocrisy but necessary until the damage to my heart reverses itself…loss of nutrients in food supply render most of our food nutritionally inert. I’m working on organic gardening for the spring to hopefully begin to reverse that.)
I am not making fun of your condition, mine has the doctors baffled too. All I am saying here is that with everything you are doing you forgot 1 thing, prayer.
I’d be lying if I said I’ve never used prayer to get out of some really bad circumstances. I have. Sometimes when the body fails, and all else fails, you have no choice: If you’re still conscious you rely on prayer. The human condition is a very peculiar one. We’ve only just begun to scratch the surface of what it means to be “conscious” and alive. I ask that people who use drugs to elevate their conscious be considered as to what their actual behavior or harm is rather than blanket condemn them. I agree Maybe, most drug users in North Iowa seem to be coupled with some sort of lowly criminal behavior. I hate this just as much as you all do. But I’m not ignorant enough to attribute drugs entirely to their behavior. As a spiritual seeker (an aspirant) I view consciousness much as those guys from the sixties did, like Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Alan Ginsburg, Thaddeus Golas, Steve Jobs, etc etc.
Would we punish early space explorers who wanted to find out “what was out there?” No. We celebrated them. But yet when it comes to expanding consciousness and the mind, we have this automatic prejudice that those who use drugs must be some lowlife violent, burglar rapist criminal.
My main message to the lowlifes is : STOP GIVING DRUGS A BAD NAME. It’d be like a bunch of pedophiles gathering naked in the park to practice yoga. The Yoga Practitioners would resent being attributed to them wouldn’t they? The same goes for drugs. But most importantly is humans being willing to climb higher in their consciousness to see awareness and their senses in as clear and sharp clarity as they can. This is why Buddha himself said that most of meditation was working through the apparitions of the mind to come into the glorious perfect state of REALITY. As a Yoga practitioner we seek to purify our senses so they see the sharpest they can see, hear the sharpest the can hear, taste the sharpest they can taste. Most drugs are bad for you, but they do possess the ability to shake up a person’s reality. For some, they need that, especially in the beginning stages of climbing.
Peace.
You are the first one to poke fun of the heavy set women, did you forget?
Your about as hypercritical as the ones you’re accusing of being hypercritical
@Anonymous-I have to admit that crack about big women was pretty low even for Philly. At least the lady was out trying to do good things. She doesn’t need to be harassed on a personal basis.
Do we really need to go there again? I’ve covered this already. If you really want the truth of it: I was surprised that the heavier set girl seemed to be enduring the cold much better than her skinnier counterparts. This started me thinking about body weight as a benefit, but then when I thought of the possible downsides, I came to MY conclusion that it’s still better to be on the thinner side. Your conclusions may be different…you’re welcome to share them, rather than focusing on attacking me.
Poor Philly-Now he is down to defending his written words.
If you must know Cupid’s Charity – the Charity that puts on the event is a 501(c)3 with 100% of the donations (2.6 million this year alone) going to the Children’s Tumor Foundation (another 501(c)3 – around 8% of their cost go to administration the rest to research). The largest NON-GOVERNMENT funded research organization that mission is to find a cure for Neurofibromatosis (NF).
Nice. I’ll make a $5 dollar donation. Thanks.
How very pathetic I do have to say, really people wow you who must speak ill of others who are out helping others while you do what? Thanks for contributing to the reason this town Sucks! I really hope someday one of you are in need of some help and a fat person as you say spits in your face and keeps on walking!
Relax, we’re just having fun with ridiculous images of people running around in tights and their under(over)wear. All I pointed out was the girl with the blubber seems to be staying warmer than the others, which of course makes sense. I mean her nor anyone else any harm. Ask her if she was warmer than the others…I’ll bet she says yes.
Well if you really want my opinion on this, I think the whole thing is incredibly stupid, and hypocritical, as Iowa Sucks correctly pointed out. You’d think in a region so hypersensitive to sex abuse, and filled with so many supposed “followers of the Bible”, that such an event wouldn’t be allowed.
I wonder what would happen if a bunch of convicted sex offenders got together to raise money for treatment for pedophilia and wanted to hold an “undies run” for themselves and the public. How do you think the Police Department and City Hall would react?
Yet it’s okay for these so-called “normal” people to galavant around with one another in their scivvies laughing and carrying on.
I also wonder what would happen if a nudist club wanted to hold a parade in minimal clothing or no clothing in downtown Mason City for charity?
The message seems to be that if you slap some charitable medical cause to your activity, you’re excused from otherwise strange and ridiculous behavior…and ONLY if the so-called status quo decides to embrace it. If KIMT frowns on your event, then expect to find yourself turned over to the police who will then seek to disrupt and shut down your activity.
Imagine if an “underwear run” was held to raise awareness for the legalization of marijuana…how far you think that would get?
We really don’t want your opinion on this. You write in a conversational style when this is just more of dictating how you think things should be. You posted a while ago that you wouldn’t be writing much on NIT yet we have seen no slowdown in your postings.
@Anonymous-Hell NO. He is posting more and more of his personal feeling comments.
Basically you are being a bully, making fun of someone because of the way you look, a real man or should I say real men here.
@maybe-Old Philly forgets that he doesn’t like to be bullied but will do it to others. It is just like him saying he is going to quit calling people names and then he turns right around and throws insults at our military men and women that have fought to give him the right to do that. It is Philly and SUCK’s style to bully anyone who uses a ounce of common sense and is against ILLEGAL drug use.
I’m not making fun of anyone. You’re grouping in other people’s comments with my own. I’ve never said that a larger person shouldn’t be in an underwear run…I’m questioning whether there should be an underwear run at all, and wondering as Iowa Sucks was wondering of the hypocrisy of society.
What if a single man were to walk downtown in his white Fruit of the Loom Underwear, with nothing else but shoes. How long do you think it would take before cops would swarm him and arrest him, or take him to 5 East?
Yet when people are doing it for this charity cause, they are excused. I don’t like picking and choosing of favors for some in society over others. We live by a one size rule fits all , or we don’t live with any rules. You guys never seem to understand the broader points we make. You only focus in conveniently, on what you don’t like.
Read through my posts again. I call extra adipose tissue “blubber”. That’s my right to. And I also correctly stated that extra blubber on humans as it does on animals, keeps them warmer. I also made an cost/benefit analysis to having extra body fat, compared with the other potential drawbacks, and came to the conclusion that extra layers of clothing outweigh (pardon the pun) extra layers of body fat.
I’m not saying this red-hair girl is deficient in any way. She actually appears to be the more comfortable than her skinny minny counterparts. Some men prefer a voluptuous woman. It’s her choice.
@Philly-More excuses.
@Philli, every time you post on this site, you are just showing what an ass you are.
I cannot remember where it is but I have seen reports of a clothing optional run either here in the states or England. I admit that there are times when something is illegal and somewhere they do it for charity, does that make it wrong? I am not sure but if the public is against nudity in public then approves this run and the city council ok’s it then who are we to condem them, we can disagree and refuse to participate but that is our choice.
philly…peter whatever name you are going by, I fear that you are just one law enforcement interaction away from becoming another Ted Kaczynski. When and not if that happens they will look at your posts on this site as your manifesto, so why not get some help today. There are plenty of professionals out there who can help you with your delusional mind. PLEASE seek some help today.
I really don’t think Philosophus has done anything wrong here. He has opinions. He posts prolifically. So what. He has threatened no one and does not use profanity. Why not comment on the topic at hand and refuse to reply to him if he bothers you, or you can lodge a formal complaint with NIT with the specifics of why he bothers you.
What hypocrisy. If anyone else walked around in their undies the police would arrest em. We aren’t supposed to pick and choose who gets charged with what.
If you wear swim trunks it’s OK, but tidy whities are not OK? That’s even more hypocrisy.
It’s so easy not to have any respect for the law. The law is an ass.
Iowa Sucks gets today’s medal pointing out yet another one of society’s hypocrisies and double standards. Welcome to the loyal order of Hypocrotchus! You’ve been inducted.
@SUCKS-Look at who calling who a ASS.
You guys are a bunch of morons, who cares what you look like as long as you get out and support things like this. Also if a woman/guy showed up half naked as cold as it was don’t think much would od happened but also don’t believe someone would show up like that in broad day light. WHERE WAS OUR BLUE ZONE MAYOR AT? JUST A WALK FOR THAT FAT ASS IN THE COLD WOULD OF DONE HIM SOME GOOD. HE COULD OF WALKED WITH A DRINK.
So what would have happened if a girl would have come to the run with lace see through panties, a see through bra, or crotchless panties? Technically, they are underwear. Would she have ended up on the sex offender list?
Did you wear two pairs of panites like they asked so your toe didn’t show?
Who is the fat guy in the red underpants with the muffin top?
If your a fat girl please do not come to this run no more. If you do then you stay out of camera range okay. We got to many fat chick’s out there fattys is not easy on the eye’s.
You are sooo right, Pee Wee. My husband of 48 years is a wonderful man who has never let me get fat. This is why we are still happily married after all these years. More men should do with their wives like my man did with me. Ladies would be healthier, and they would stay married. I just know this is so. No man wants a blimp.
you’re a poor excuse for a woman and not to mention hypocritical considering you sell those greasy fattening foul smelling tenderloins!
Fat, hairy, stinky guys are not easy to look at either!
The girls with no meat on their bones wear cold weather spandex. The girl with plenty of meat on her bones walks around in the cold no problem. Formula? Save on Winter Heating Bills=Put on Weight. However other variables: Extra Weight=Higher Food Costs+Bigger Medical Bills+Risk To Indoor Plumbing (Massive Cheeseburger Dumps). So I think it may be a wash. Wear more layers of clothing wins out.
Heehee Haha!