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Crazy Video: Naked Man Terrorizes Apartment Complex
A naked man wreaked havoc on an Anaheim parking structure over the weekend, diving head first through the back window of a minivan and later getting thrown off the hood of a moving car. And the crazy incident was all caught on surveillance video.
Garrett Smith, 21, from Riverside, streaked through the parking structure of an apartment complex around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to CBS Los Angeles. Things quickly escalated after that.
Resident Clarisa Vidrio got into her Scion to leave for work when she saw in her rear-view mirror the naked man running towards her neighbor's Mazda minivan that was parked right next to her car. Smith dove head-first through the back window of the minivan, shattering the glass. He fell back onto the ground and rolled around a bit before getting back up.
Vidrio, who was terrified, quickly backed up her car and smashed it into a patio fence. While she tried to drive forward, Smith charged at her and landed on her hood. Vidrio swerved her car into the minivan, and Smith eventually got thrown off the car into a corner of the structure.
A couple of men from the complex approached Smith, who then ran away. He sped past Steven Trinkle, who was walking through the structure. Trinkle told KTLA that Smith was covered in blood and sweat. "To take that much pain and take off like he did," Trinkle said, "that's bizarre, dude."
Vidrio called Anaheim police and they arrested Smith about a mile away from the complex. “I was scared,” she said. “I literally thought I was gonna die that day.”
Police said that they're going to get the results from Smith's blood tests in a couple of weeks. Smith faces charges of vandalism, being under the influence and resisting arrest.
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Here's the video of how it all went down, with the surveillance footage starting at the 0:14-minute mark. It's a doozy.
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