"Village police swarmed a gas station recently and used a Taser to stop a naked 36-year-old man who danced in the parking lot before he tried to drive away as onlookers captured video of the strange scene.
The man from Hobe Sound, Florida, appeared to be on drugs, police Lt. Sandra DiRuzza said Monday about the incident, which was captured on video by someone who was watching the arrest unfold.
It is Westchester's brush with the "Florida Man" meme, a viral social media joke that highlights wacky stories of Florida folks running afoul of the law.
It is also the second video catching fire on social media of someone stripping down in Westchester as the weather heats up. Last week a man was filmed swimming in the Renaissance Plaza fountain.
The encounter occurred around 10:10 p.m. on June 11 at the Sunoco gas station at 540 Mamaroneck Ave., DiRuzza said. Officers responded after an employee there reported someone acting erratically.
As depicted in a video posted on Facebook by an onlooker, police are in the parking lot as the man prances out of the gas station's food mart and into a car next to a gas pump.
The man then tried to drive away, but two police cars boxed his car in at the parking lot's Mamaroneck Avenue exit, where several officers surrounded the man's car. An officer opened the driver's side door and the man got out. Officers used a Taser on the man after he refused to comply with officers’ verbal commands, DiRuzza said.
The man, whose name was not released by police, was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs and public lewdness, both misdemeanors, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, DiRuzza said.
The man was taken to a hospital for evaluation and given a future date to appear in Court, she said."
Still more madness 😠.
What was the name of that film again? "Reefer...something"?
Updated count -
Americans who used marijuana in 2019: 48,000,000
Americans arrested on a naked outing: 2