Some people get caught with their pants down. Others strip for what they believe is a very good reason. Here's a look at the strange, the kinky, the reckless and the outlandish nudes in the news from January to March 2008.
Getty ImagesA 32-year-old Italian man faces two years in jail after being convicted of sending 15,000 pornographic emails of his ex-girlfriend, offering sexual favors and erotic games, with her phone number also on display.
This was an anatomy lesson fourth graders in Joliet, Ill., will never forget. A 46-year-old man was arrested after driving naked next to a school bus for several miles while pleasuring himself.
When a stunned security guard stumbled upon a naked contractor getting friendly with the hose end of a vacuum, the man offered a novel excuse: He said he was just "cleaning" his underpants.
Reports of a man running through Littleton, Col., in the nude prompted police to arrest a man who caused quite a stir at the police station, allegedly urinating on the floor and doused a deputy with the foul bodily liquid.
New York's infamous Naked Cowboy is trying to take a $6 million bite out of the company that makes M&Ms, claiming that they've dressed one of the M&M figures in his skimpy cowboy duds, infringing on his trademark look.
It was no ordinary naked man that police in Chappaqua, N.Y. detained, after finding him banging on his ex-girlfriend's door. And when he knocked a stun gun away with a karate move, they recognized this naked ninja meant business.
Please put your trays in an upright position: German nudists can now fly naked (as long as they embark and disembark with clothing).
James Wayne Pritchard let it all hang out, and the recipient of this display, an on-duty female police officer, made him pay.
In a novel way to raise breast cancer awareness, Canadian women are being asked to bare their breasts and post pictures on a website called "The Booby Wall." Shortly after the event launched, hundreds of women uploaded images, including at least 20 breast cancer survivors who have had visible mastectomies.
Reports of a nude man in a pickup truck triggered a police chase. By the time North Dakota authorities managed to stop this man, "He managed to get on some bib overalls," a local sheriff said.
Japanese railroad stations allow manga drawing of scantily clad young women with ample breasts, but a poster advertising a 1,000-year-old "naked festival" held at a temple in northern Japan has been said to be "too extreme."
A man walking naked on U.S. 1 in Florida told police he was acting on instructions from Jesus.
