Back in early 2001, I was working for a NASA contractor...And one morning I was making my way to work when I had turned onto Bay Area Blvd. (Clear Lake City) off of Hwy 3...This is only to setup the incident...
I had made the turn and came up on the first light heading east on Bay Area...When out of the right corner of my eye, I saw a flash of pale fleshtone nakidness running right in front of my truck towards my left, into the median...
In hot pursuit Houston's finest (3 uniforms) with what appeared to be guns drawn, I quickly thought this was going to get ugly, real fast...
The totally naked guy stopped in the median and started yelling rather loud in Russian at the pursuing officers, who at that second decided to discharge their weapons...I thought for some silly reason why it wasn't a bit of a sharper report, but realized they just "tazed" the naked Russian...
Now in the end everything went good, the tazed Russian was taken into custody, and didn't have any appreciable injuries...
I found out who the Russian was...He was an exchange engineer working at NASA for some joint projects/experiments...Knowing Russians tend to party harder than most average Americans, it was quickly deduced that he had tied on one too many vodka shots, and was still flying high that morning...
But the sight of a naked man running across my path that morning, and then getting tazed by HPD...He looked like a piece of raw bacon frying up on a hot skillet...
I almost lost it...
I still laugh thinking about it today...
I also wish I had had a camera phone or something else to record the event for posterity...
And no one ever said nothing strange ever happened in the space program...geesh!!!