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Man arrested after surfing naked on top of moving locomotive
KDVR Denver ^ | 07/17/2026 | Spencer Kristensen

Posted on 07/18/2026 9:17:32 AM PDT by DFG

DENVER (KDVR) — A man was arrested for surfing naked on top of a moving locomotive on Thursday, according to a social media post from the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office.

The man, identified as Daniel Ray Ballance of Quartzsite, Arizona, broke the window on a Union Pacific Railroad locomotive and entered it.

Ballance was arrested and faces a combination of felony and misdemeanor charges, according to the sheriff’s office.

“For those of you who had the unfortunate experience of seeing this gentleman surfing naked on top of a moving locomotive yesterday, I want you to know that he was arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges,” said the post.

He reportedly expressed to law enforcement his love of vodka, beer and the banjo.

“Daniel expressed his love of vodka, beer and playing the banjo. Unfortunately, we had to separate him from those loves and the train ride,” said the sheriff’s office.

(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: amish; arizona; banjo; beer; locomotive; quartzsite; surfing; surfingnaked; vodka

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To: dfwgator

There are those who have, and those who lie about it.


41 posted on 07/18/2026 10:35:43 AM PDT by Ken H (Freeper #240 - Dec 05, 1997)
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To: DFG; All

Public castration with a dull knife would be a good deterrent against future events like this.


42 posted on 07/18/2026 10:38:09 AM PDT by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore. )
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To: DFG
His mugshot …


43 posted on 07/18/2026 10:43:34 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: DFG

I’m afraid to open the link. There might be pics that I don’t want to see.


44 posted on 07/18/2026 10:56:45 AM PDT by birdsman (NAAWP)
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To: DFG

I’m afraid to open the link. There might be pics that I don’t want to see.


45 posted on 07/18/2026 10:56:52 AM PDT by birdsman (NAAWP)
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To: DFG

Get off that locomotive and that meth.


46 posted on 07/18/2026 10:58:53 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: DFG

He was on his way to Maine to run for the senate in place of Graham Platner.


47 posted on 07/18/2026 11:09:00 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Red6

A friend of mine and I saw a guy posing naked on a freeway on-ramp cloverleaf one night. After I confirmed with my friend that he saw it too and I wasn’t hallucinating, we figured it had to be a frat hazing prank, as the guy appeared to be pretty young. We were getting on 280 in Cupertino, so San Jose State University wasn’t far away, nor was Stanford University.

This was back in the early 1980s.


48 posted on 07/18/2026 11:14:48 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: DFG

Cowabunga Brah!!


49 posted on 07/18/2026 11:21:12 AM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: DFG

50 posted on 07/18/2026 11:24:19 AM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: DFG

51 posted on 07/18/2026 11:25:39 AM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: DFG

I guess he figured his balance would get him through.


52 posted on 07/18/2026 11:33:59 AM PDT by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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To: Antihero101607

I’ll betcha it doesn’t smell majestic.


53 posted on 07/18/2026 11:39:30 AM PDT by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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To: dfwgator

Should be legal.


54 posted on 07/18/2026 11:45:45 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

They have naked bike rides in Denver. It is the absolute greatest things you’ve ever seen. Funny as all get out.


55 posted on 07/18/2026 11:47:05 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: DFG

After clicking on this, Im thankful that I never got caught naked surfing trains.


56 posted on 07/18/2026 11:51:13 AM PDT by TBall
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To: DFG

I kinda thought it might be a banjo player. What I need to know is, 3 finger or clawhammer style?


57 posted on 07/18/2026 12:23:04 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

He didn’t catch any BB’s.


58 posted on 07/18/2026 12:50:52 PM PDT by DPMD (u)
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To: DFG

Surf? In Colorado?


59 posted on 07/18/2026 12:52:08 PM PDT by DPMD (u)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“C’mon baby do the locomotion-—!” And a second comes to mind-—

“In the shuffling madness of the locomotive..
breath, runs the all time loser, headlong to his death
Oh he feels the pistons scraping,steam breaking on his brow,
old Charley, he stole the handle and the train won’t stop going.... NO it should slow down”

He sees his children jumping off at the stations one by one-
His woman and his best friend in bed and having fun
He’s crawling down the corridor on his hands and knees
Old Charley stole the handle and the train won’t stop going,
NO Way to slooooow down”.

Ian Anderson, writer/leader of Jethro Tull.


60 posted on 07/18/2026 1:29:42 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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