# The Naked Guy has died. R.I.P Andrew Martinez **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897 "2006-05-23T14:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/1 "2006-05-23T14:06:44Z")
So sad. Apparently, he suffered from a mental illness that was never clearly diagnosed. [Andrew Martinez - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Martinez) He was quite a person. He marched to the beat of a different drummer, that’s for sure. I never knew him personally (only through media reports), but I loved his attitude and outlook on life. The world was a better place because of him. Good-bye, Naked Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/2 "2006-05-23T14:18:37Z")
[QUOTE=Spiff] So sad. Apparently, he suffered from a mental illness that was never clearly diagnosed. [Andrew Martinez - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Martinez) He was quite a person. He marched to the beat of a different drummer, that’s for sure. I never knew him personally (only through media reports), but I loved his attitude and outlook on life. The world was a better place because of him. [/QUOTE] It was? A crazy guy in and out of shelters, in jail because of assault with a deadly weapon. . .whose philosophy seemed to be about as deep as a 15 year old girls? A guy who thought that CLOTHING was some kind of conformity that facilitated a power struggle. If the world was a better place because of this guy, who ISN’T it a better place for having them around? ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/3 "2006-05-23T15:47:33Z")
[QUOTE=Spiff] The world was a better place because of him. [/QUOTE] Hardly. What if he had been a big fat hairy unwashed guy with stretchmarks, pimples and crevices who walked around with a perpetual hardon? Would you still feel the same way about him? Hell no, jeez. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/4 "2006-05-23T16:18:03Z")
I was a student at Cal-Berkeley during his time there. I saw him a few times on campus. Most of us my friends though he was just an attention whore. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/5 "2006-05-23T16:27:16Z")
He went to my high school, was a year ahead of me. I didn’t know him personally, but I did hear about him. He got naked at a couple of parties and things before going to Cal. When I went to Cal, he was already known as “the naked guy.” He was very harmless, completely unoffensive, never any sexual overtures or lewd or outlandish behavior. One of the main reasons Cal had to start cracking down on him was because of the auditorium-style classrooms; when he walked past you, he either had his ass right in your face, or you got to say an up-close hello to Free Willy. It made some girls uncomfortable, and they complained. Fair enough, I think it’s reasonable to expect to go about your business without having to have some guy’s penis in your face. Farewell, Andrew. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/6 "2006-05-23T16:46:50Z")
[QUOTE=Spiff] Apparently, he suffered from a mental illness that was never clearly diagnosed. [quote] He got himself expelled from school for refusal to wear clothes? Man, who would ever have guessed he was mentally ill? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/7 "2006-05-23T17:02:23Z")
Whew! for a second there I thought this was referring to the guy who streaks at European sporting events, thankfully it isn’t, with the Wolrd Cup coming up and all. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/8 "2006-05-23T17:21:23Z")
I did not intend to start a Great Debate, but if that’s where this is headed, then so be it. Or, someone could start a Great Debate on this topic in GD. And **Ghanima** , I heard that for reasons of hygiene, he did wear a loin cloth when going to classes. That was from media reports, so I don’t know the full story about that. I think he had a refreshing innocence … maybe like that of a 15-year-old girl (or boy) … that I found interesting. YMMV (obviously). ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/9 "2006-05-23T17:35:46Z")
Ithought this would be about either the naked guy Jerry Seinfeld spent time on a subway with, or the Friends neighbor. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/10 "2006-05-23T17:39:10Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Hardly. What if he had been a big fat hairy unwashed guy with stretchmarks, pimples and crevices who walked around with a perpetual hardon? [/QUOTE] I remember that guy from my campus. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-guy-has-died-r-i-p-andrew-martinez/357897/11 "2006-05-23T18:37:43Z")
I’m not quite sure why this is in Cafe Society? And there’s a longer, earlier thread here: [Berkely’s Naked Guy’s Obit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=372535) Hence, I’m closing this one, go there to post.