Schuylkill skinny dipper taken into custody

Thursday, August 10, 2017
FAIRMOUNT PARK (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police arrested a man who went for a swim without any clothes in the Schuylkill River.

Authorities were called shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday to the river near Martin Luther King Drive near Black Road in Fairmount Park.
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When police in boats reached the skinny dipper, he refused to get out of the water.

It took officers, two boats, and a helicopter about an hour to get the man out of the water near Girard Avenue.

The man was taken into police custody.
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