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GregariousGroundhog

(7,522 posts)
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:16 PM Aug 2021

Has anyone here ever gone streaking?

I don't recall the details as to why, but I know that my uncle and several of his friends ran around school wearing nothing but jock straps on one occasion.

There are a limited number of people who are bold enough to do it, but I would laugh my ass off if a group of students decided that if masks are optional, clothes should be too.

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Has anyone here ever gone streaking? (Original Post) GregariousGroundhog Aug 2021 OP
I remember a bunch of guys.. luvs2sing Aug 2021 #1
Really?? Post it in the lounge!!!! USALiberal Aug 2021 #2
Did you read the post? I've often had a similar thought. nolabear Aug 2021 #29
It's here to stay! Treefrog Aug 2021 #34
This is one of those times I am glad the internet was not around when I was in college. redstatebluegirl Aug 2021 #3
A bunch of guys started a streak from the bar I was working in, BarbaRosa Aug 2021 #4
S.F. State CountAllVotes Aug 2021 #5
Guilty here. Wearing nothing but Converse high tops and a crazy grin. We were never caught though. yonder Aug 2021 #6
It was a big thing around the FSU campus for a while, men and women. Chainfire Aug 2021 #7
I recall a guy streaking across my college campus one afternoon Ocelot II Aug 2021 #8
Not me, but I knew a few guys who did FakeNoose Aug 2021 #9
It was a big thing around the FSU campus for a while, men and women. Chainfire Aug 2021 #10
Princeton U used to have a 'Nude Olympics' empedocles Aug 2021 #13
That's one of a few things that make me glad FoxNewsSucks Aug 2021 #11
I did once in college, mid-70s...... lastlib Aug 2021 #12
Had a friend who streaked all the way across the field of a Big Ten football game rurallib Aug 2021 #14
Wow, that would've took some balls. Wait....What? yonder Aug 2021 #31
No, but at a pre-graduation yearly event at Wellesley college, bunches... LAS14 Aug 2021 #15
It was a craze circa 1974 I think. Other than that, Tomconroy Aug 2021 #16
LOL ananda Aug 2021 #17
Oh! I forgot! Back in the day two undergraduates dashed across... LAS14 Aug 2021 #18
My brother did bluedevil4 Aug 2021 #19
One of my high school classmates was caught while streaking csziggy Aug 2021 #20
No, but at my boarding school the boys used to go streaking through the girls dorm once a year. Crunchy Frog Aug 2021 #21
A guy did it across the length of our High School greenbelt when I was a Senior. kairos12 Aug 2021 #22
Skinny dipping in the river... but that's it. NurseJackie Aug 2021 #23
They did it on snowshoes at U Maine at the time jpak Aug 2021 #24
Snowshoes? I'm dying here laughing at the thought. yonder Aug 2021 #33
Major league shrinkage, no doubt liberaltrucker Aug 2021 #36
I didn't do it, sarisataka Aug 2021 #25
DON'T LOOK, ETHEL! rsdsharp Aug 2021 #26
Not me but, when I was 14-16 yo Quakerfriend Aug 2021 #27
Streaking no, but MOONING yes! Ziggysmom Aug 2021 #28
Sure did ironflange Aug 2021 #30
That's like, so 70s, man. Earth-shine Aug 2021 #32
Yep, 1976 luv2fly Aug 2021 #35

luvs2sing

(2,220 posts)
1. I remember a bunch of guys..
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:19 PM
Aug 2021

streaking through the bowling alley and a high school dance. High 70s stuff.

I like your idea!

nolabear

(41,963 posts)
29. Did you read the post? I've often had a similar thought.
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 06:10 PM
Aug 2021

It’s about the “I don’t have to wear a mask because my freedoms” crowd. I think it’s perfectly appropriate for General discussion.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
3. This is one of those times I am glad the internet was not around when I was in college.
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:19 PM
Aug 2021

Guilty, a bunch of us had a little more than we should have of various things, and decided to streak across campus. I was a lot faster back then, they didn't catch me, but they did catch two of my friends. If the internet were around I wonder how much of the stupid stuff I did then would come back and bite me.

Chainfire

(17,537 posts)
7. It was a big thing around the FSU campus for a while, men and women.
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:24 PM
Aug 2021

Landis Green was prime viewing country for the streakers.

My younger brother went streaking and the guys who were picking him up in the car got rolling before he got all the way in, he fell and removed a lot of hide from his back and his butt. He was still living with our mother and I do not recall what he told her happened.

Ocelot II

(115,691 posts)
8. I recall a guy streaking across my college campus one afternoon
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:25 PM
Aug 2021

in February. In Minnesota. He was wearing only a stocking cap, boots, a scarf and mittens. I think this would have been in 1968 or 1969, so one of the early streakers.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
9. Not me, but I knew a few guys who did
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:26 PM
Aug 2021

Crazy high school stuff.... probably drunk and high to boot. After high school (maybe college) I don't think anybody did it. It wasn't a popular thing for very long.

I'm guessing streaking started around the time of Woodstock?

Chainfire

(17,537 posts)
10. It was a big thing around the FSU campus for a while, men and women.
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:28 PM
Aug 2021

Landis Green was prime viewing country for the streakers.

My younger brother went streaking and the guys who were picking him up in the car got rolling before he got all the way in, he fell and removed a lot of hide from his back and his butt. He was still living with our mother and I do not recall what he told her happened.

lastlib

(23,226 posts)
12. I did once in college, mid-70s......
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:30 PM
Aug 2021

It was more of a thing then.
About 20 of us on one floor of a men's dorm decided that the uptight women of a "Christian" college were lacking something in their education. So about 10:00 we gathered in a corner of a cemetery that sits near the women's dorm, stripped down, "nekkid as jaybirds," except for some black face-paint, and made a dash out in front of that dorm, did our "flash dance" for the assembled ladies (who had been told shortly before that we were coming), then scurried back to the dorm. A couple guys from the men's dorm gathered up our clothing from the cemetery and returned them to us.
A couple days later, everyone in our dorm got a nastygram from the Dean of Men to the effect that there would be zero tolerance for any future such escapades, which would be grounds for expulsion.

rurallib

(62,414 posts)
14. Had a friend who streaked all the way across the field of a Big Ten football game
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:31 PM
Aug 2021

I think he did it just before the kick off - long time ago. Stands were full.

LAS14

(13,783 posts)
15. No, but at a pre-graduation yearly event at Wellesley college, bunches...
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:32 PM
Aug 2021

... of graduates streaked past my hubby and two pre-school children.

LAS14

(13,783 posts)
18. Oh! I forgot! Back in the day two undergraduates dashed across...
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:40 PM
Aug 2021

... the stage of an art lecture stark naked. The professor looked at the audience afterward and said "The first was baroque and the second Rococo." This was in Hillary's day at Wellesley College. I didn't see it, but everyone on campus heard about it.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
20. One of my high school classmates was caught while streaking
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:44 PM
Aug 2021

Totally nude. Problem was he was on his way to law school and his father was head of the Florida Bar Association at the time. It was very embarrassing for his dad, who had to prevent himself from pulling strings since his son was photographed and easily identifiable.

I just checked - my classmate is now an assistant district attorney and his father became president of the American Bar Association (who made history by recommending that Richard Nixon be removed from office).

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
23. Skinny dipping in the river... but that's it.
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:46 PM
Aug 2021

And I was much younger... and and much thinner.

Wow, I haven't thought about that in over 40 years. Thanks for shaking the cobwebs loose.

Quakerfriend

(5,450 posts)
27. Not me but, when I was 14-16 yo
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 06:06 PM
Aug 2021

streakers would frequent the movie theater where I worked. And, I remember being at Gore Mt. for some spring skiing with my five sisters when a few guys streaked down the mountain on skis!

Earth-shine

(4,007 posts)
32. That's like, so 70s, man.
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 06:17 PM
Aug 2021

In the 70s, I was in elementary school. Streaking was a thing. We used to giggle about it.

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