The ordeal happened Thursday night in front of shocked shoppers in the town just outside Birmingham, Leeds Police Chief Paul Irwin said.

The 42-year-old Alabama man did a “cannonball” leap into the aquarium and then stood under a waterfall. He left the water to yell at two officers, then dove back into the aquarium, police said.

The man eventually climbed over the side of the aquarium and fell to the concrete floor below. Police then apprehended him, the news site Al.com reported.

He faces several charges including public lewdness, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.

The man was in the water for about five minutes before officers arrived, Irwin said.

  • @[email protected]
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    289 months ago

    Victim-less crime.

    Let he who has not wanted to swim naked in a Bass Pro Shop aquarium cast the first stone.

  • key
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    269 months ago

    Gotta say, I can see the appeal.

  • sylver_dragon
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    199 months ago

    Somehow guessing the toxicology report on this guy is going to come back with a short education on recreational substances in the “positive results” box.

    • @[email protected]
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      99 months ago

      Much more likely he’s manic af. If I had a nickel for everyone who ended up at the psych hospital I worked at after running naked in public in the throes of a manic episode, I’d have several dollars. Most often drugs were not related when the clothes came off, it’s straight up bipolar and it knows no socioeconomic or cultural bounds. Would be mortifying to end up in the national news like this guy, or the Kony 2012 guy

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      19 months ago

      and they somehow skipped over him crashing his car outside before running in

      for a moment I thought maybe this was a planned dare or something but no, this was just a guy who had crashed his car and saw an aquarium and made some off the cuff choices.

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      159 months ago

      I just naturally assumed this happened in Florida. Glad some other state is causing a brief distraction.

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    129 months ago

    How come whenever I go to a Bass Pro Shop I never get to see a naked 42-year-old man leaping into the aquarium? I swear life is not fair.

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    9 months ago

    ‘Yes, Hi,… my name is Jimmy Bobby Bo Billy— the reason I’m knocking on your door today is because I’ve been registered as a sex offender, and I’m required to let you know that I once jumped naked into a Bass Pro Shop aquarium’

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    109 months ago

    Favorite news of the day. So funny and relative to the rest of the world is harmless. Gogo redneck stupidity. LOLOLOLOL

  • peopleproblems
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    99 months ago

    There’s one in Springfield with a bunch of aquariums.

    I think almost everyone briefly thinks about doing it, but clearly he lacked the part of his brain that says “lol but? no.”