Posted on 05/20/2006 12:02:08 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
The former University of California, Berkeley student known as the "Naked Guy," who gained notoriety for attending class in the buff in the early 1990s, died of an apparent suicide while in jail, authorities said.
Andrew Martinez, 33, whose stripped-down campus strolls got him expelled from UC Berkeley and prompted the famously liberal city to adopt a strict anti-nudity ordinance, was found dead Thursday in the Santa Clara County Main Jail, said jail spokesman Mark Cursi.
Martinez was found under his bed covers with a plastic bag cinched around his head, Cursi said. Officials are investigating the death as an apparent suicide.
The 6-foot-4 Martinez had been in custody since Jan. 10 on three felony charges of battery and assault with a deadly weapon, authorities said.
Martinez was housed in solitary confinement in a maximum security area and was last seen alive around 11 p.m. Wednesday during a routine cell check, Cursi said.
He was found about 20 minutes later when other prisoners reported hearing unusual sounds from his cell. He was pronounced dead a short time later.
In 1992, Martinez organized a "Nude-In" protest at the university's Sproul Plaza. He said he was trying to make a point about free expression at the birthplace of the 1964 Free Speech Movement.
"What I am getting out here is there's a lot of social control going on here," he told the crowd at the nude-in. The message caught on and nude spottings spiked on campus. Martinez, whose naked notoriety landed him on national television talk shows, was expelled the following year after the university rewrote its dress code to ban nudity...
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what a terrible loss
Lord, have mercy on his soul. I remember when he was doing his nude thing in Berkeley.
I'm actually looking for data on the situation which landed him in jail -- assault, battery, weapons.
O/T but Cody's on Telegraph is gone. :)
This thread is bringing all of us in SF out of our bunkers.
I am probably going to move to Santa Rosa, hopefully soon.
But Moe's is still there, and will no doubt be picking up their customers. That store, and Amoeba Records, are the only conceivable reasons for a Bay Arean like myself to ever set foot on Telegraph's filthy pavement.
This just goes to show that most of the sexually "liberated" people touted by the liberals--porn stars, the promiscuous, homosexuals, trangenders, and, yes "the naked guy"--are really just mentally and emotionally disturbed people. These people need counselling and psychiatric aid, but instead the liberals hold parades to celebrate their "lifestyles."
Ah, there but for the lack of pants go I...
What happened to celebrating diversity? Who are they to impose their morals on Naked Guy?
ROTFLMAO!
Bound her hands well enough??? Well, maybe they should reinvestigate that case too...
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