# Streaker retires after 519 appearances. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaker-retires-after-519-appearances/649934 "2013-02-11T02:54:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaker-retires-after-519-appearances/649934/1 "2013-02-11T02:54:37Z")
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_? 😃 > **['After 519 streaks, I'm hanging up my birthday suit at last': World's most...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276311/After-519-streaks-Im-hanging-birthday-suit-Worlds-prolific-stripper-calls-day-sons-friends-laughed-him.html#axzz2KYP1abOT)** > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaker-retires-after-519-appearances/649934/2 "2013-02-11T03:12:06Z")
i rise and salute. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaker-retires-after-519-appearances/649934/3 "2013-02-11T20:42:23Z")
Don’t look Ethel! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaker-retires-after-519-appearances/649934/4 "2013-02-11T21:24:19Z")
He streaked a superbowl? How’d he even get onto the field? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaker-retires-after-519-appearances/649934/5 "2013-02-12T12:51:40Z")
Decided not to stick it out another year, eh? (Ba-dump bump! TISH!) I can’t claim credit. It’s an old joke. I’m just surprised it wasn’t used before now. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaker-retires-after-519-appearances/649934/6 "2013-02-12T16:24:35Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Decided not to stick it out another year, eh? > > (Ba-dump bump! TISH!) > I can’t claim credit. It’s an old joke. I’m just surprised it wasn’t used before now. He did say gravity was against him ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaker-retires-after-519-appearances/649934/7 "2013-02-12T16:34:03Z")
It takes real balls to make a statement like that. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaker-retires-after-519-appearances/649934/8 "2013-02-12T17:53:30Z")
Hangin’ em up, eh?