Man causes nude disturbance, nothing happens

If this guy had been shouting "IMPEACH BUSH" or handing out alternate energy pamphlets you bet your knickers he'd been arrested and charged with something.

Posted at 3:21 PM ET, 05/14/2007
Police Respond to Report of Naked Man in Senate Office Building

Just another buttoned-down day on Capitol Hill? Hardly!

U.S. Capitol Police officers today chased away a man who appeared to be running naked through the Hart Senate Office Building.

A Senate aide called police after spotting what looked to be a fully nude man sauntering on the 7th and 8th floors of Hart.

Police sources told The Sleuth that the man was "not arrested" -- because when officers arrived on the scene they found that the alleged nudist wasn't actually naked. He just looked that way in his formfitting, spandex body suit.

As Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer, who oversees Capitol Police, joked, "All that is flesh-colored isn't naked."

It didn't appear that the qausi-streaker had a cause célèbre or a specific issue of protest. He wasn't arrested or detained, one Senate law-enforcement official said, because "no crime was committed."

Police told Senate aides that "this has happened before with this guy," according to one fully clothed source who works in Hart. The source said police can't figure out how he passed through security wearing only a flesh-colored bodysuit.

UPDATE:
Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Capitol Police, said "the initial report was that he was naked" but that it turned out "he was wearing spandex." She said police who responded to the incident also said the man was wearing a t-shirt.

Police questioned and released Spandex Man in very short order after finding him to be a law-abiding citizen, Schneider said. "He didn't come back with any warrants, he wasn't wanted for anything, he didn't break any rules, he didn't assault anybody," she said.