Naked Cop
UNARMED AND DANGEROUS: Off-duty Edison, N.J., police officer Ioannis
Mpletsakis, 26, was driving home after swimming at a friend's house. To
avoid getting the seat of his BMW wet, he took off his swim shorts.
Then he got into an accident, and his shorts ended up wedged under his
crumpled dash board. With a crowd gathering, Mpletsakis feared if he
got out of his car he could be charged with public lewdness, so he
drove off instead. A fellow officer found him hiding in some bushes and
took him home to get dressed. Municipal Court Judge John Leonard, who
called it "the most singular and most bizarre hit-and-run case since
Henry Ford built his first car," scolded Mpletsakis for leaving the
accident, but dismissed hit-and-run charges because he returned after
he got his clothes on. He was convicted, however, of hindering his
apprehension and faces being fired from his police job. (Edison
Sentinel) ...Which is exactly what he was apprehensive about.







