Poor old Streakerama. This site has been dreadfully neglected for months. Thankfully a man without pants at the Australian Open has prompted me to add a long-overdue post.
Streaker interrupts match at Australian Open - AFP
Serena Williams couldn’t believe what she was seeing. A nearly naked man had just run on court while she and sister Venus were playing doubles at the Australian Open, prancing around before being arrested.
“I just thought, my eyes, my innocent eyes,” Williams said Saturday, still chuckling at the memory…
The man, wearing only a shirt, jumped onto the court, sprinted across the sidelines and made several dance moves.
“First, I saw him jump over and then I noticed he didn’t have underwear on,” Williams said after her third-round singles victory over China’s Peng Shuai. “I thought, `OK, I must be seeing things.’
“He ran out on the court. I was thinking, `I hope he doesn’t come,’ because he was pretty close to me and V. I was like, `I hope he doesn’t come, he’s too close.’ Then I thought, `This is crazy.’ Doesn’t really happen too much.”
As he headed toward an exit, the man was met by security guards, arrested and banned for the event. He was not immediately identified.
Australian Open officials said the streaker was on the court for 14 seconds.
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a pic of the streaker himself. Here’s a quick video:
Also, check out this piece about streakers being tolerated in Queenstown: What’s so wrong with being naked?
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Three streakers made waves at an Australia-England polo match attended by Prince Charles on the 26th July. BBC reports that the three emerged nude from the grandstand toward the end of the match, with one being chased by security guards and getting away.
25,000 people attended the match. Charles watched the whole thing from the royal box. England went on to win.
England team captain Luke Tomlinson later said it was not the first time he had played in a match interrupted by naked intruders.
“You are so focused on the game you hardly notice. It brings a bit of humour in and the crowd seem to enjoy it,” he said.
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the club said: “I think it is the hot weather and the Pimms to blame. These things happen.”
Now that’s the kind of laid back attitude from authorities that we like to see. Pimms is obviously the thing to be drinking when naked lunatics make an appearance.
Here’s a Youtube clip from the Sunrise show here in Australia, including the usual crap comments from the hosts.
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About 1 minute there’s footage of streaker Tashy running onto the field.
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The Daily Telegraph reports that Mark Roberts did a streak at the World Snooker Championships final in Sheffield. As you can see, he had some sponsorship for the streak. Looks like he’s back in business after a long break.
It also has a pic of a female streaker from the FA Women’s Cup final. She has posted a link to her Myspace page on the article - her name is Tashy and she’s very proud of her run by the looks of it.
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The Northern Territory News (and News Ltd) has tracked down one of Australia’s more famous streakers, Helen D’Amico. She’s currently living in Darwin and studying a nursing degree.
Helen made headlines when she streaked at the 1982 AFL grand final between Carlton and Richmond. Wearing only a scarf, she did her best to cuddle bald player Bruce Doull.
Interest in the streak has re-emerged because Doull agreed to re-enact the streak for a Toyota commercial.
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I found this great photo on this site, but I can’t find any further info about this guy, or when it was. Still, it’s a great pic.
The saga continues. Now it seems that Robert Ogilvie accepted a payment of $7500 to be interviewed by A Current Affair, although Channel 9 denies this.
Links: Daily Telegraph, SMH,
Tags:newsThe Daily Telegraph reports that the cricketing powers that be aren’t too fussed with the fine given to One Day streaker Robert Ogilvie, saying it was too lenient and will encourage other streakers. Ogilvie had no conviction recorded and was fined $1500.
Tags:Andrew Symonds, cricket, news, one day streakerAlthough unwilling to publicly criticise Magistrate John Costello, a leading cricket official said ground authorities were flabbergasted at the leniency of the fine.
“It’s incredible that he can get off so lightly - he can just get 10 of his mates to chip in and pay $150 each and the matter is done with,” a cricket source said.
This evening I did a radio interview with Andrew Daddo on ABC 702 Sydney about the Symonds streaker. It went well enough, but I now have this sinking feeling about the end of it. I didn’t know the name of the gadget guy who was on after my segment and I strongly suspect I called the station “706.” Eeeep! Ah well.
There may be a transcript or audio file of the segment available soon. I’ll post it up when that happens.
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Today there’s plenty of news coverage of last night’s One Day final streaker. Andrew Symonds has not been reprimanded by Cricket Australia for knocking him down, even though he could have faced a ban for “interfering with a spectator.”
The streaker, Robert Ogilvie, has been fined $1500 for “interfering with a person engaged in sport and wilful exposure.” Who knew that interfering with a person playing sport was an illegal offence? Ogilvie says he did the streak after his mates dared him to do so, and he was drunk at the time.
Asked by reporters if he felt embarrassed by his antics, Ogilvie replied: “No. Not really.”
He added that he would not do it again saying: “Nah, Nah. Done it once.”
Admitting it had been the first time he had streaked, he said: “You only live once.”
He won’t be bringing charges of assault against Symonds and apparently said “wake up to yourself” to the reporter who asked him that question.
There’s no further info at present about the second streaker who appeared later in the game.
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Buck naked and $1500 bucks down - SMH
It felt good: poleaxed streaker - News.com.au
Symonds floors streaker during one day final - Reuters
When a streaker ran out onto the field at the 2nd One Day Cricket Final in Brisbane, he didn’t expect to run into Andrew Symonds, who shoulder-barged him to the ground.
I saw it happen and was quite surprised to see Channel 9 actually show this footage. Normally they refuse to give any close ups to streakers in case it encourages them.
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Note… I’m trying to get the Youtube video to work on this, it’s giving me a bit of trouble.
This is all over the web and kinda old but I thought I’d post it here to welcome in the New Year, since I’ve been so thoroughly neglecting Streakerama lately.
The incident happened in 2002. Thestreaker, Sabaean Myers, appeared at a soccer match between Burnley Football Club and another team. The mascot is Burnley’s Bertie Bee, who went on to be interviewed on TV show They Think Its All Over about the whole thing.
According to this report, Sabaean was given 2 years probation and ordered to pay costs of 65 pounds. Burnley banned him from their games for life, a move that he disputed.
A letter writer argued that it was Bertie who should be banned for performing a dangerous high tackle.
Sabaean planned to streak for charity a few weeks later (and was involved in the Channel 4 Streakers documentary that I appeared in) but the friend he wanted to support died before his plans came to fruition.
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This is a group of streakers at the University of California Berkeley library during finals exam week in 2006. They’ve recently done it again but, according to this site, Youtube has pulled the video.
Classmates are raising money and getting behind a friend who streaked at a basketball game wearing only a sock. The “Free The Fuzz” campaign is aimed at helping pay off the $300 fine incurred because of the streak.
More info here.
Yes yes, I know I haven’t posted much lately, even though there’s been heaps of streaking events happening. I’ll try to keep up… after Christmas and New Year is over, OK?
Anyway, here’s a video of a bunch of students streaking around the quad at Tufts University in Massachusetts, something they do every year. This time it was on December 10. And there’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over the student newspaper posting this video on their site. Apparently some Nigel-No-funs think that people’s privacy has been invaded by the posting of the video.
I’m thinking that they’re forgetting the streaker’s rule - once you’re out there naked, you’re out there.
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