>How bad could it possibly be? Middle finger while grabbing the crotch? Exposing genetalia? Yelling, "Your Momma wears clogs!?"
It's an innocent-looking hand gesture. Perhaps you can get the article, which is quite interesting, from Google cache, if you search for "The strange case of the shocker" (including the quotation marks).
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)