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Friday, October 14, 2005

Against Me! Rocks, Naked Man Walks

Posted by on October 14 at 9:59 AM

Speaking of things beloved by Stranger writers, the following report arrived this morning in my Last Days email, courtesy of Hot Tipper RJ, who writes:

I’d like to report an event that occured on the evening of Thursday October 13 at approximately 11.20pm. Just after the early-ending Against Me! show at Neumos, my pal Luke and I were hanging with some lovely tiny lesbian aquaintances of ours at the Wild Rose when we spotted something curious: A naked man, wearing shoes and one of those trendy army-type ball caps, running eastbound on Pike Street. We soon realized the man and his shining white ass were evading a female SPD officer. The man veered left down 11th and ran out of sight. On his tail was not one, not two, but ten cop cars driving every which way looking for the nude jogging phenom. Luke and I joined in the pursuit. After passing what seemed like a million pedestrian police officers, we spotted a mass of squad cars surrounding the man, now in cuffs, behind the KFC on Capitol Hill. There were K-9 units with barking dogs, police walking the apprehended man in his birthday suit and the bittersweet smell of Kentucky Fried Chicken. I remain curious about what this man was up to…If he was just streaking, why would his arrest necessitate so many policemen and women? P.S. The Against Me! show ended early due to the lead singer complaining of a possible broken rib…However, what time we did have with them rocked.

Thank you, RJ, for the prompt reporting of your amazing eyewitness encounter. If anyone has any knowledge, or even entertaining guesses, about the motives of the man or the status of the rock star’s rib, please post them in Slog Forum.