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Former 'Naked Guy' at UC-Berkeley dies in jail
2006-05-21
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The former college student known as the “Naked Guy,” who gained notoriety in the early 1990s for attending class in the buff, has died in jail, authorities said. Andrew Martinez, 33, whose stripped-down strolls at the University of California, Berkeley, got him expelled and prompted the city to adopt a strict anti-nudity ordinance, was found unconscious Thursday in a Santa Clara County jail, said jail spokesman Mark Cursi. Officials are investigating the death as an apparent suicide. He had been in custody since Jan. 10 on charges of battery and assault with a deadly weapon, authorities said.

In 1992, Martinez organized a “Nude-In” protest at the university. He said he was trying to make a point about free expression. The message caught on, and nude spottings spiked on campus. Martinez, who landed on national talk shows, was expelled the next year after the university banned nudity.
Posted by:Fred

#9  A de facto threat to empire and humanoid existence, like Tribbles to Klingons. MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE > Dem critters got murder in their eyes and all along their tiny cute furry bodies.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-05-21 20:22  

#8  Girls would attend clases wid their beach bikinis just barely holding up - no comments, no nuthin' from the profs or TA's. Some females deliberately came in looking used and abused, the so-called "just raped " look - A well-clothed male coming in wid a mere baseball cap or beret on his head, and the profs scream and critique like there's no tomorrow.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-05-21 20:16  

#7  heh heh
Posted by: 6   2006-05-21 11:54  

#6  There are one million stories in the naked city. This is the nakedest of them all.
Posted by: Mike   2006-05-21 08:38  

#5  Poor man. He had nothing but the clothes on his back.
Posted by: Mike   2006-05-21 08:32  

#4  I heard he died of exposure.
Posted by: ed   2006-05-21 07:26  

#3  Thanks for running this picture on Sunday when my boss isn't looking, heh.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-05-21 01:44  

#2  Naked Guy was a campus hero among the free speech crowd, until the feminists started claiming sexual harassment. Only then, or more realistically, could the campus act against him. Too bad, RIP Naked Guy.
Posted by: Doolittle   2006-05-21 00:34  

#1  Former 'Naked Guy' at UC-Berkeley dies in jail in a orange jumpsuit.

diagnosis...a free pissing bi-polar.
Posted by: RD   2006-05-21 00:26  

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