Saturday, January 31, 2009: I was riding my bike on the Stearn's Wharf today, and i noticed several police officers on the beach, and a Harbor Patrol boat close to shore, and in between them, a man wading in the ocean waist-deep. As he got closer, i could see that he was totally naked. He went under the pier and out the other side, back & forth along the shoreline, staying waist deep and looking lost. The cops on shore and the guys on the boat were trying to coax him out, yelling, pleading him to come out.
Meanwhile, all the tourist families were walking on the wharf, then looking down and seeing a nude man in the icy ocean! They must've thought "What kind of town IS this??" as they covered their childrens' eyes.
It went on for a half-hour, until he finally walked onto the shore and took off running across the beach, until he was tackled by a member of the SBPD.
He spent a good half-hour in the icy water, and was obviously impaired in some way. I kept waiting for police to send someone in a wetsuit out to get him, but it didn't happen, despite the fact that there was an ambulance and a fire department ladder truck on-scene.
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