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No thongs allowed! A North Carolina town that the mayor called "Mayberry with a beach" has banned swimmers from wearing thongs as swimsuit bottoms, reports Fox news. The town is actually Kure Beach, North Carolina, but the mayor has likened it to the town in 1960s American classic TV show "Andy Griffith" and wants to keep the barely there bikini look off the beach.

Town Bans Thongs - Mayberry Beach Versus the Bikini.

He wants old-fashioned family fun and that means too much skin is not allowed. "You can do what you want to in your own space," said Mayor Dean Lambeth, "but for public decency, keep it off the public beach."

The mayor added: "We're going to keep this as close to Mayberry with a beach as you can keep it."




According to CBS News the town council voted Thursday to add a ban against the revealing swimwear to its existing ordinance against nudity. "Everything we do is family oriented. We like the small town atmosphere," the mayor told CNN News.

The report reveals the new law: "Section 12-32 of the Code of the Town of Kure Beach, which was adopted on April 22, makes it illegal "for any person being naked or insufficiently clothed ... to bathe or swim in the Atlantic Ocean" or any other area within the town's jurisdiction."