A Sydney barman who bared his buttocks to Queen Elizabeth during her visit to Australia in October was fined Tuesday for being a public nuisance but let off the more serious charge of willful exposure.
A court in Brisbane, where the offence took place, fined Liam Warriner 750 Australian dollars (800 US dollars) for running alongside the queen's car for 50 metres with an Australian flag clenched between his bare buttocks.
The 22-year-old said outside the court that he was an ardent republican registering his political protest and that he would do it again.
'I don't think that any one family should have any more importance than any other family on this planet.' Warriner said.
'Any self-important, self-propagating elitists I'll happily bare my buttocks to and tell them what I think of them.'
Agencies