Loyal 2oceansvibe readers will be relatively well-versed in terms of what it takes to pull off a flesh-revealing stunt in a race. Remember when Evan Price rode the Argus earlier this year in that Borat mankini? Alas, Brett Henderson hasn’t been as lucky. Mind you, he was effectively just long-distance streaking.

Police arrested Henderson, from St Paris in central Ohio, while he was attempting to run naked in Sunday’s Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati.

Henderson was arrested for public indecency and obstructing official business. Police said he was told to exit the race and get into a police car but refused, running around an officer and continuing to run in the race, resulting in said tasering.

During an interview after his release, Henderson attempted to justify his actions:

I’ve run in marathons all over the country, and I think I know the running culture pretty well and I know that anything goes on race day.

This is something that happens and is tolerated in the running culture, along with runners who sometimes (urinate) or defecate during a race. Shouldn’t that be considered indecent exposure, too, if what I did was indecent?

In fact, running naked was encouraged in a marathon I ran in San Francisco, so I don’t know why this was such a big deal.

Earlier reports suggested he wasn’t registered to run the race and was just having a dig at the race’s tradition of ‘streaking’ – a term given to a runner that has completed each Flying Pig Marathon since its inception, and not related to actual naked long-distance running.

Henderson continued, describing how a policeman started making a move toward him in the middle of the pack, about an hour into the race, causing him to accelerate away. Other runners also came to his aid and helped shield him before it was too late:

It was cold and rainy, so I wasn’t exactly proud of what I was showing. At one point, the policeman charged me and told me to stop running or he was going to Tase me, and I could sense his aggression and rage and I thought the police were going to manhandle me.

When I finally came to, the policemen were standing around laughing at me.

Henderson had borrowed a pair of running shorts from his father, Stephen, but they started slipping off during the race.

I looked but couldn’t find a drawstring … I kept fighting and pulling on them, and then the elastic gave way so I let them drop. I just went with it because I wanted to finish the marathon.

He appeared in court on Monday but pleaded not guilty and was told to return for a future court date.

[Source: UrbanCitizen]