This has to be one of the strangest headlines I have written on this blog, but it is totally true:

Around 11:30 this morning, a foreign man went skinny dipping in the moat of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Here’s a video of him in action. The 40-year-old man stripped naked and jumped into the moat, and it took over an hour and a half for police to capture him. As you can see from the video, he threw rocks at anyone who approached him in the water and clearly did not want to be apprehended.

It is not clear why the man went skinny dipping, but it may have had something to do with a group of foreign tourists that had been speaking to officers about a lost bag at a nearby police box at the same time the man prepared to make his jump into the moat. [Japan Probe]

Here is video of the incident in question:

I’m willing to bet this guy had his passport and money in the bag and when the police weren’t cooperative to retrieve it, he took matters into his own hands and things just escalated from there. No excuse for his behavior of course because it was totally ridiculous.

Japan Probe has a whole lot more pictures and video of this strange but funny incident.  Go check it out.

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