For passengers on the early morning commute, it certainly
brightened up their journey.
A woman boarded the subway rail network in Vienna wearing
nothing but a pair of knee-high leather boots and a
smile.
Passengers were stunned when the nude woman got on the Vienna
U-Bahn near the Kardinal-Nagl-Platz station and stood in the middle
of the carriage for several stops.
And she appeared to have no qualms about posing for
pictures when several commuters reached for their cameras and
started snapping away at the modern-day Lady Godiva.
She got off the train a few stops later without saying a
word.
Staff on the Vienna U-Bahn have been studying CCTV images
of the woman - who has been dubbed the Vienna Venus - and the
Austrian media has launched an appeal to track her
down, Heut reported.
Her full-frontal picture has been published in several
Vienna newspapers which have asked readers to identify the mystery
passenger.
One publication has even offered to feature the woman in a
photo shoot - provided she identifies herself and reveals her
reasons for doing it.
According to the Austrian Times,
a witness said: 'I couldn't believe it when she stepped on
the train and when some people grabbed their mobile telephones and
started taking pictures she didn't object.
'In fact she even seemed to be posing for the
camera.'
While the woman's actions have surprised many, most seemed
more concerned with the fact she chose to bare all during snowfall
and freezing temperatures in Vienna.
Vienna's public transit operators Wiener Linien told
the Austrian Times: 'We know that everyone has a
different perception of temperature. We do not believe that it so
warm in our subways that you have to undress.'
