LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL. - Manatee County deputies have arrested a man for walking around naked and dancing.
According to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, 36-year-old Eric Echales was walking near Balmoral Woods Boulevard and Arnold Palmer Green in Lakewood Ranch Monday morning without any clothes on listening to his iPod and dancing.
When Echales was asked why he was naked, he said he just, "Wanted to feel free".
Echales says people were driving by laughing and blowing their horns, and that people were enjoying him being naked.
On the way to the Manatee County Jail, Echales told the deputy that he didn't know he would be taken to jail for being naked, but it, "Felt good to be free."
The report says he was under the influence of alcohol.
He was arrested charged with Indecent Exposure and released on bond Friday.
