Talk about fishing for consideration — some man is in deep trouble after stripping bare and leaping right into a Bass Pro Shop pond — and photographs from horrified bystanders has captured all the things.
You gotta see it to imagine it — the person executes a cannonball from the highest flooring of the shop in Leeds, Alabama Thursday … cops say the man, 42-year-old George Owens, carried out the stunt simply earlier than closing time.
The movies present Owens yelling one thing to officers as he shamelessly hangs on the sting … legs unfold vast aside and all — earlier than dramatically hurling himself over the aspect and onto the moist cement flooring, smacking his head and ass within the course of.
Cops get Owens into cuffs although he continues to place up a battle. However, he ultimately calms down.
At one level, one other man covers him with a blanket to spare bystanders the bare sight … and police slide him away on his stomach.
As for what led as much as the erratic fish tank show, Police Chief Paul Irwin tells TMZ, Owens was driving in a automotive with 2 members of the family round 9 PM when he hit a pole within the retailer’s parking zone.
From there, he determined to get out, strip bare and stroll contained in the wilderness-themed retailer.
Chief Irwin tells us that when he was below arrest, Owens kicked one officer within the groin … and he later kicked in and broken the again door of their police automobile.
He’s being charged with a hodgepodge of offenses, together with prison mischief and assault on a police officer. He additionally made vulgar feedback to the officers. He was taken to a hospital for psychiatric analysis.