<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, streakers]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, streakers]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/streakers http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/streakers <![CDATA[Defamer Exclusive: Naked Leopard Man On Melrose!]]>
We were just noting how it's a bit of a wackier day than normal in Defamerland—what with the Gay Pride float oracles, acupuncture needles on the red carpet, and Swedish golf cart joy rides—when what should appear in our inbox but a series of truly glorious and mind-boggling photographs, taken not but an hour ago on Melrose by a highly placed operative. Yes, that is a completely naked man, strolling down the street with a leopard flung around his neck. Our witness explains:

He stopped for all traffic signals, took good care of the cat in the intersections etc. He was so nonchalant about it.

The rest of his report, along with the uncensored photos and a shot of the arrest, after the jump:

There were a lot of LA traffic cops trying to get a handle on the situation - figuring out what to do. Then at melrose and la brea the cops came in and arrested him. Not sure what happened with the cat but the guy did put up a little bit of a fight.

All the cops, traffic cops, people were shaking their heads - like only in LA. People were cheering me on to get the pics.

Our hats are off to the photographer, who manages to simultaneously evoke cave paintings, Michelangelo's David, and the T.R. Knight Advocate cover in his artful studies—and, of course, to the mysterious urban Tarzan, who threw a ray of leopard-spotted sunlight on what should have by all accounts been an uneventful August Wednesday.

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<![CDATA[Hollywood StreakerWatch: Now With Ground-Level Photos!]]>

Following up on the photo we received of the arrest of the naked guy jogging along the 405 on Tuesday afternoon, a reader has submitted a couple of photos taken from a car passing the streaker before his triumphant run was ended prematurely by uptight authorities bent on cutting short his genital-jiggling, joyous sprint. Unfortunately, the new photographic evidence seems to indicate that the subject was not, as we'd previously hoped, Will Ferrell, crushing our fantasies that the actor had snapped and decided to adapt his famous Old School streaking scene to a new, exciting, and civilly disobedient form of freeway theater. Enjoy.

Another photo follows after the jump:

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[Photos: Alejandro Beytia and Ron Wakefield]

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<![CDATA[Hollywood StreakerWatch: Naked Guy Arrested On 405]]>

Because there's nothing to brighten up an overcast Tuesday afternoon than a picture of a guy being arrested for running naked on the 405, we're happy to pass along this reader-submitted photo (taken from an office overlooking the road just moments ago) of the aforementioned sprinting freeway nudist's swift capture by several of LA's finest. We obviously have no ideas about the identity of the streaker, but the blurry focus on the subject made us immediately think of the recent cell-cam documentation of Will Ferrell in the act of voting, a local personality known for his tendency to shed his clothes and take off running virtually every time a camera is pointed at him.

[A slightly larger picture of the naked guy's arrest (sans Ferrell insert) can be seen by clicking here.]

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