'Naked Man'? Surf City's new law has him covered
By Ashley Powers, Times Staff Writer
July 18, 2007

The man whom Walnut Avenue once called Mike took to dawdling near his fence — cheekily unclothed. Neighbors yanked down their blinds to block out the 5-foot-9, 165-pound man in his birthday suit. Out-of-towners screeched, and some folks phoned police and begged: Please oust the Naked Man.

This kicked off a months-long chain of events that wrapped up Monday night with the Huntington Beach City Council approving a ban on public undress.

Police Chief Kenneth W. Small explained to the council that Miguel Angelo Ferreira, a.k.a. the Naked Man, was alarming partly because his home was close to the city's renovated downtown and the Pacific Ocean — major tourist magnets.

"Young females in their early teens" were subject to seeing Ferreira "moving his hips from side to side," Small said. "To be confronted with a naked man is shocking for everyone."...........

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