Foreigner swims naked in the Imperial palace moat

Some British dude decided to give reason to the general idea that foreigners are all weird, by going skinny dipping in the moat of the Imperial Palace, Tokyo.



The news reel says that he is Spanish, but he has apparently been confirmed to be British (BBC article). Go Britain.

Not only was he butt naked and swimming in the moat (which isn't particularly clean and full of hungry and curious carp) but he occasionally climbed parts of the palace walls - intentionally removing some of the rocks on this way. He was also seen to be throwing rocks at people who approached him in a boat and chasing after policemen (whilst still very naked) with a rock in hand. It does give the Tokyo police a bit of break from chasing a rouge monkey...but I don't think it gives them much credibility when they are running scared from a man just because he's holding a rock. Well, I guess naked gaijin's [外国人] are really scary.

This wonderful example of wackiness went on for about 2hours, and he was only finally arrested at 1pm.

Apprently, he has been released with out charge to his friend, on the account that he's nuts/mentally unstable. Although, I'm not entirely convinced that that is a good idea.