Matcom News --- Ark. Cops Use Taser to Subdue Nude Jogger

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Naked-Jogger.html?oref=login

anuary 13, 2005
Ark. Cops Use Taser to Subdue Nude Jogger
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 7:26 a.m. ET

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) -- Officers have finally arrested a man for making late-night runs in the nude along Airport Road in West Memphis.

Fate Patterson, 39, of West Memphis was apprehended Monday night, West Memphis police said Wednesday. Officers had to use a taser to subdue Patterson, who had dodged police for six months or so.

The jogger was arrested after he ran past a police car and failed to stop when he was ordered to do so by officers on location. After his capture, Patterson was charged with indecent exposure, fleeing and resisting arrest.

``You know, this one has just got me kind of speechless,'' said Mike Allen, assistant chief of the West Memphis police department.

Allen said it wasn't known why the man was jogging while nude.

.. that's the full AP article....

[SkyeTerrier]

1. A nude jogger. Eluded police. For 6 months.

By the way, you do know that matcom collects royalties for these, don't you?

[Florida_Geek]

2. OH NO,,, he has not Billed me yet

:evilgrin:

[RPM]

3. ouch n/t

[dbt]

4. Once again, Arkansas stands as a Shining Beacon!

I can hardly post this through tears of Joy. Where else but my beloved Arkansas can a guy go run around BUTT NEKKID for SIX MONTHS before the cops finally nail him--and they had to CHEAT to do it!

Wusses couldn't run down a nekkid-man!!! Neener, neener, NEENER!

GLORY to Arkansas!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Florida_Geek]

6. Right it is hard to say the Nekkid man had WMD on him

:evilgrin: (remember no sex threads).

[Radical Activist]

5. So what was the problem?

He was jogging at night on a road that is probably not well traveled. How does that hurt anyone? They used a tazer because he wasn't wearing clothes?! How conformist.

[underpants]

10. NOTE-there is no evidence of mental illness

YET!

:eyes:

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Why did I read that as "Ark. Cops Use Taser to Subdue Mick Jagger?"

That sure woulda been cool.

[pinniped]

8. He was practicing for the Bay to Breakers.

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[Historic NY]

9. Well it was kinda hard to get a good description of him......

Oh those little prods (needles) must have hurt from the TASER, sure hope they didn't stick in a sensitive location.....OOooooooouch.

Why does this remind me of a scene from Porkys, you know where the kid jogs naked home from the cemetery pass the cops.