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Warning: Keep your clothes on at World Cup

Heavy fines planned for streakers at 2006 event

HAMBURG, Germany - World Cup organizers will seek heavy fines for streakers during next year’s tournament.

During the recent Confederations Cup there were four instances of streaking during the tournament’s 16 games.

“You can’t assume these so-called streakers will always have peaceful intent,” Wolfgang Niersbach, vice president of the organizing committee, said Friday. “We don’t want to imagine, for example, what would happen if one had a knife.”

There currently is no penalty in Germany for spectators who run onto the field. Organizers would like even tougher measures for streakers, such as jail, but did not think they could get such laws passed in time for the World Cup.

German authorities ruled out building a metal fence around the field because it would penalize soccer fans.

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