Palomino! Watch: Naked Jogger Doesn't "Want People To Have The Wrong Impression"

Don't look, Ethel!

Rumors of a fleshy middle-aged man -- stripped down to his running shoes and glasses -- started to circulate about a year ago. Sightings became increasingly common last summer and fall.

Equestrians from nearby Saratoga's Garrod Farms say he was generally polite, exchanging pleasantries and taking care not to startle their horses.

Well, they always say "as long as you don't scare the horses..." Although that usually applies to private conduct and not public footpaths.

But he regrets that ``people are easily scared when they're not used to seeing a non-clothed person. They don't separate nakedness from sex. They get them confused.''

There's nothing criminal about an unclothed human body, he said. ``But until society catches up, I don't want to take a chance,'' he said.

What's marginally more appalling than the perverse exhibitionism is his condescension. He's just so far out ahead of the rest of us clothes-wearing cavemen, dontcha see. Except that cavemen didn't wear clothes.

(For previous Palomino watch! item from Nancy Pelosi's America, see here.)