Witnesses: Naked, 'frumpy' jogger seen streaking through Calif. preserve
SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) — Who was that undressed man?
That's the question startled hikers, bikers and horseback riders are asking about a jogger seen streaking through an open space preserve wearing nothing but sneakers, glasses and a black tam hat.
"He passed me and said `Good evening,"' said Sue Bowdoin, who spotted the naked man -- middle-aged and sporting a pale paunch -- while riding her horse on a trail in Fremont Older Open Space Preserve last summer. "I thought: Ugh!"
Although numerous park users have reported seeing the exhibitionist over the last year and a half, rangers have been unable to identify and arrest him for exposing himself, said Gordon Baillie of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.
By most accounts, the man is polite and does nothing other than run in the buff.
A woman who saw him said he looked scared and backed away after she cornered him with her horse and told him he was offending people.
People who use the park regularly have not reported recent sightings in the cold weather, theorizing he may be unrecognizable because he is clothed. With dark hair, sweaty red skin and lack of body hair, he wouldn't be hard to spot, Bowdoin said.
"He's frumpy. Plain. Not in good physical shape," Bowdoin told the San Jose Mercury News in Thursday editions. "It's not a pretty sight."
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