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.
A nude model in Peru faces four years in jail for offending a patriotic symbol, after being photographed riding the country's flag like a saddle. "It's one thing to cover your body with the flag," and official tells Reuters, "But quite another thing to be naked and using it as a horse's saddle."
Summer in New York City brings out all sorts of seasonal rages, like monthly naked dining at Mercantile Grill in Manhattan and Pete's Downtown in Brooklyn. One must ask whether the waiters expect big tips when the patrons don't have pockets for money.

TMZ.comThat squeaky-clean Mormon image just doesn’t jib with a sexy calendar of young churchmen, stripped from the waist up – and now the maker of that calendar has been cast off.
For years, a Laguna Niguel, Calif., bar has sponsored an annual "mooning" of Amtrak trains. But when 8,000 showed up, some with no clothes at all, the police brought the event to a quick end.
A 30-year-old man admitted that he's been the person that residents of a Manchester apartment spotted in the lobby wearing nothing but a baseball cap and socks. He told police he found keys in a dumpster, and had helped himself to women's underwear he found in the laundry room.
Performer Monserrat Morilles told reporters she was challenging the prudishness of Chilean society. The media has dubbed her, "La Diosa del Metro" or "Metro Goddess."
A 21-year-old man was arrested after walking into a Shippensburg, Pa. convenience store with no clothes, snacking on junk food, and allegedly grabbing a woman.
Former Ohio prosecutor Scott Blauvelt is "just a good, solid guy who wants his job back," his lawyer tells
The Cincinnati Enquirer, blaming his late-night naked strolls through the Government Services Center in Hamilton on medication used to treat depression and seizures.
Just the thought of it just makes you want to reach for the bottle.
Canadian police arrest a man who allegedly biked naked through a town just north of Montreal, but by the time they cornered him, he'd put on clothes. "Maybe he had a knapsack hidden somewhere," an officer told
Canwest News Service.