Seems like a fun loving bloke. Fortunately for him Europe knows the difference between a laugh and a sex crime. But the article says his public streaking has still landed him in jail 30 times.
I guess the security at sporting events can rest a little easier now. Unless someone else decides to step in and take up the mantle. Or, maybe we should say drop his skivvies ?
Prolific streaker, 48-year-old Mark Roberts has stripped on TV show This Morning and at the Super Bowl, as well as shedding his clothes at Wembley, Wimbledon and Ascot.
For two decades, the Liverpudlian father-of-three has been the Usain Bolt of the naked dash. In 1995, he leapt naked on to Fred Talbot’s weather map on daytime TV show This Morning, and a year later he appeared nude on the green during the Open at Royal Lytham.
Then, in 2004, he was fined £550 for trespassing after streaking across the pitch at the Super Bowl in Texas – a match watched by 130 million people in 87 countries.
For good measure, Mark has also stripped off at Wembley, Wimbledon and Ascot.
‘There’s no major venue or event I haven’t done,’ he says proudly. ‘But I’m nearly 49 now and my children have begged me to stop. It’s time. I’m not ready for my slippers just yet, but gravity’s against me.’
Therein lies the nub of Mark’s compulsion: he loves to make people laugh. He says: ‘My first time changed my life. Everyone should try it once. I’d never had any history of nudity. I’m actually quite shy. On a beach, I’m coy and I’ll get changed under a towel. But when I perform, I’m like a different man.
Not everyone gets the joke. His scuffles with over-zealous security guards over the years have left him with two broken toes, four broken ribs, a broken finger and 25 stitches in his leg.
In 2007, Merseyside Police sought an anti-social behaviour order banning Mark from displaying his buttocks and genitals in public. But the judge rejected the application, saying Mark’s behaviour did not cause real distress.
He streaked a superbowl? How’d he even get onto the field?
Decided not to stick it out another year, eh?
(Ba-dump bump! TISH!)
G0sp3l
February 12, 2013, 4:24pm
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CalMeacham:
Decided not to stick it out another year, eh?
(Ba-dump bump! TISH!)
He did say gravity was against him
It takes real balls to make a statement like that.
