Streaker at Obama's Pennsylvania Rally

her209

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Saw this on the Daily Show...

Raw Video (censored privates):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3NUmtUlgbc

Backstory:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/staten_island/fortune_streaker_6KsUaSFhH3uspXqQD9C6bL

He may streak it rich.

A formerly homeless, aspiring video-game designer from Staten Island is the man who shed his clothes and took a naked run at President Obama over the weekend.

And the stunt could make him a millionaire.

Juan Rodriguez, 24, stripped off his clothes at a rally in Philadelphia Sunday, shouting "Battlecam.com" just 40 feet from the leader of the free world, in accordance with the terms of a $1 million challenge laid down in August by Internet mogul Alki David.

After seeing the video, David said yesterday he is still trying to confirm that Rodriguez met the requirements for the prize -- that he was within eyesight and earshot of Obama when he made his nude dash.

"It looks good so far," the 42-year-old billionaire told The Post.

Originally from Britain and born into a super-rich Greek family, David has made a name for himself in various online ventures.

Rodriguez said after his arraignment last night there was "no way" anyone could say he hadn't earn his pay.

"I started about 10 feet from him [Obama] and removed my clothing and started backpedaling to where cameras were.

"I made sure to be pretty loud and prominent" and then "I just knelt down and put my hands behind my head and waited for someone to put the handcuffs on me," Rodriguez said.

The father of three, who was charged with indecent exposure and lewd behavior, said he has no regrets.

"My family needs the money, my sister needs an operation and it's not cheap," he said standing barefoot and wearing white scrubs outside the Philadelphia courthouse after being released on $10,000 bail.

But Rodriguez said he would also donate money to help his favorite Internet café in Brooklyn and to Obama's favorite charity.

David said the stunt was designed to promote his new Webcam reality show/social-networking site, Battlecam.com, and represented no actual criticism or threat to the president.

"A naked man would have to be pretty well-endowed to be a threat and, as we can see in the video, that was not the case here," he said, taking a jocular jab at his million-dollar man.

A Battlecam.com regular, Rodriguez was one of several people to offer to streak the president, David said, but he was the only one to pull it off.

The Stapleton man offered two friends $25,000 each to take videos of the streak, but as the day approached they backed off.

He was then put in touch with Joey Boots, an administrator on the site and longtime Howard Stern prankster.

Rodriguez wore sneakers with no socks, a T-shirt, shorts and a sweatshirt.

The outfit had seams held together with Velcro, so after kicking off his shoes he could take all his clothes off in "just one swoop," Boots said.

"I started filming him and followed him through the crowd. It was definitely within eyesight and earshot of Obama," he said.

Secret Service and Philadelphia police thwarted the wacky ass-assination. They subdued Rodriguez in a prone position and an officer put his knee on his back.

All Rodriguez was thinking was, "Don't Tase me or don't shoot me," he recalled.

Additional reporting by Perry Chiaramonte

jeremy.olshan@nypost.com
Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, nobody got hurt. It was a publicity stunt to promote a website. On the other hand, at what point do you cross the line into serious jail time like the Iraqi reporter that threw his shoes at President Bush.

Also at the same rally, a book was thrown at President Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdlBwO9LCfk
 

Craig234

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The primary blame for bad judgement and disrespect for the office (in the name of crass self-promotion even) lies with the rich guy who offered money to do this.

He should make a visit to jail more than the guy who did it.

It's not as if there was some legitimate political protest to even rise to civil disobedience, it was just the misuse of money to disrupt the president tastelessly.

It really doesn't deserve our giving him the attention he's after.
 

Throckmorton

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What does it say about our society that a guy has to streak in order to get money to pay for his sister's operation? Just think about this for about 10 seconds.
 

Jack Ryan

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What does it say about our society that a guy has to streak in order to get money to pay for his sister's operation? Just think about this for about 10 seconds.

It means an entrepreneur seized an opportunity to get what he wanted. He didn't sit on his ass expecting everyone else to pay for it.

:thumbsup: to this guy.

You are free to go to your local hospital and pay for everyone in the ER if you want. I doubt anyone will stop you.
 

Thump553

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Jun 2, 2000
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Nostalgia for the seventies is fine, I guess, but if you guys bring back disco again I'm checking out.

BTW streaking is far more enjoyable when done by college women than homeless guys.
 

highland145

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Story I heard this a.m. was that the guy needed the W.H. to confirm that p-bo saw him or the instigator won't pay up. The W.H. said, "No comment."
 

xj0hnx

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Dec 18, 2007
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It means an entrepreneur seized an opportunity to get what he wanted. He didn't sit on his ass expecting everyone else to pay for it.

:thumbsup: to this guy.

You are free to go to your local hospital and pay for everyone in the ER if you want. I doubt anyone will stop you.

Dude, they don't want to pay for it with their money, they want to pay for it with everyone else's money.
 

Sinsear

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It means an entrepreneur seized an opportunity to get what he wanted. He didn't sit on his ass expecting everyone else to pay for it.

:thumbsup: to this guy.

You are free to go to your local hospital and pay for everyone in the ER if you want. I doubt anyone will stop you.


lol. well played.
 

sandorski

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Oct 10, 1999
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It's an Obama Muslim Kenyan Commie Conspiracy to put the cost of actual Assassination so high as to be unaffordable! This blatant manipulation of the Market is further Proof that Obama hates the Free Market!!!
 

her209

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Story I heard this a.m. was that the guy needed the W.H. to confirm that p-bo saw him or the instigator won't pay up. The W.H. said, "No comment."
Sounds like the contest organizer/backer is trying to weasel his way out of paying a single dime. Color me surprised.

 

Theb

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If he isn't severely punished there are going to be so many copycats. Every unemployed guy with a website is going to try to strip and scream the URL at the president.
 

CPA

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The primary blame for bad judgement and disrespect for the office (in the name of crass self-promotion even) lies with the rich guy who offered money to do this.

He should make a visit to jail more than the guy who did it.

It's not as if there was some legitimate political protest to even rise to civil disobedience, it was just the misuse of money to disrupt the president tastelessly.

It really doesn't deserve our giving him the attention he's after.

That's ridiculous, no one put a gun to the guy's head to do it. It's like saying McDonald's Marketing FORCES people to buy their Big Macs.
 

SP33Demon

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Looks like the guy is going to get paid, but not a million.

He thought he would get a million dollars, but the man who degraded himself to promote a billionaire's website will only get some rent money and help for his sister's hospital bills. Filthy rich website owner Alki David has decided that Staten Island's Juan Rodriguez failed to qualify for the million dollar prize because he didn't get within earshot of President Obama at a Philadelphia rally on Sunday. But "despite the failed attempt," David is going to pay Rodriguez's rent for one year, cover his sister's hospital bills, and give him an undisclosed but supposedly "generous" amount of cash. And all Rodriguez had to do was humiliate himself before the world and get arrested. Who says the economy's dead?
http://gothamist.com/2010/10/14/billionaire_will_toss_obama_streake.php
 

PeshakJang

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What does it say about our society that a guy has to streak in order to get money to pay for his sister's operation? Just think about this for about 10 seconds.

Maybe if he didn't have 3 kids at the age of 24, he wouldn't be broke and homeless. Maybe then he'd be able to help pay for it.
 
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