A Florida man, possessed by the spirit of a raccoon, stripped off, climbed into the ceiling of a Planet Fitness, exposed himself, set a fire, and then hid in a tanning bed.
I don’t know what they’re putting in the drugs over there in the US, but it’s sending people absolutely crazy. On a Saturday night, police were called to South Tamiami Trail Planet Fitness due to a lunatic causing havoc. They responded to “reports of a naked man running through the gym, crawling into the ceiling, and attempting to start a fire in the bathroom.”
On arrival, the carnage was already clear. The locker room ceiling had been pulled down. The deputies suspected that the naked crazy had made their way into the ceiling, possibly before tumbling through. “It definitely looks like he is trying to get into the roof,” one police officer can be heard saying over the bodycam footage.
There was clear evidence of a fire in the Planet Fitness locker rooms, too. Smoke was lingering in the wake of the naked man. But, there was no sight of him or his junk, yet. However, CCTV from the gym showed him naked, exposing himself around the building, and then lying down on a hydro massage bed.
Naked and Afraid
The naked man was nowhere to be seen, so the police had to call in the K9 unit to seek him out. With the scent of sausage in its nose, it got to work. Within a few minutes, the hound had sought out the man in the tanning area of Planet Fitness.
With guns drawn, the police breached the room and found their perp. He had been lying in the tanning bed of Planet Fitness, naked, crazy, and probably quite tired. He surrendered to the police, sporting a rather fetching tan.
Finally, he was ordered to come out of the tanning bed. Police then all piled onto his sweaty, naked body. Footage from the scene doesn’t show little kisses being delivered, but I could hear them. He was charged with indecent Exposure, Arson, Fraud-Impersonation for giving false identification to police, Damage of Property over $1,000, and smuggling contraband into prison.
What a workout.