Super Bowl streaker gets trial date: Criticizes baseball streaker for being nude
There is a lot to be said for leaving something to the imagination. Apparently, Mark Roberts never got the memo, and 70,000 people at Super Bowl XXXVIII got more than they bargained for- and frankly, probably more than they wanted. Now it could be time for Roberts to face the music. At least he'll have his clothes on this time.
More than 70,000 people caught Mark Roberts' last performance in Houston. Only six will be needed for the next one.
Roberts, the 39-year-old Brit who shed a phony referee's uniform on the field at the Super Bowl and danced a jig in nothing but a thong, intends to go to trial June 21 on a misdemeanor trespassing charge.
"I wonder how many witnesses they'll call?" Roberts told The Associated Press on Thursday while watching defense attorney Sharon Levine set his trial date with a county court-at-law judge in a Houston courtroom. "I mean, they could call tens of thousands."
His case will be heard by a six-person jury. If convicted of the Class B misdemeanor, Roberts could spend up to six months in jail and pay a fine of up to $2,000....
Roberts doesn't deny he was the one who darted onto the field in a tear-away striped uniform, stripped near the kicking tee before the second half began and started dancing while displaying a skin-borne advertisement for an online casino.
Police were slow to react, and it was New England Patriots linebacker Matt Chatham who leveled Roberts before officers carried him off the field.
You can keep all the crap about "the natural beauty of the human body". Do we really need (or want) to see an out-of-shape, middle-aged Brit parading around in his birthday suit as if he actually has something worth displaying? And what is it that allows him to think that we really do care? I'm by no means a prude, but some things are still best left under wraps. Mark Francis Roberts would definitely be one of them.
What's even worse is that Roberts had the balls to criticizes Tuesday night's streaker at Minute Maid Park. Now THAT definitely meets today's minimum DUMB@$$ requirement.
