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A MAN WHO stripped naked and drove around the grounds of a Byron Bay resort in a golf buggy on Friday evening may count himself unlucky but guests at the resort are probably relieved he was arrested.
At about 6.00 pm on Friday police were called to the resort on Butler Street following reports a drunk man was causing trouble.
Police allege the 30-year-old man from Coffs Harbour was trespassing on the grounds and that when staff tried to get him to leave, he jumped into a golf buggy and began driving it around the grounds ‘in an erratic manner’.
They say he knocked over a number of rubbish bins before crashing the cart into a gutter.
When staff again tried to speak to him, he stripped naked, ‘exposing himself to other members of the public in the area’.
When police arrived they say the man was ‘yelling and swearing, and had to be handcuffed’.
He was placed under arrest, and taken back to Byron Bay Police Station where he was charged with trespass, using the club cart without consent, willful and obscene exposure, offensive language and behaving in offensive manner.
He was released on conditional bail, and will appear at Byron Bay Local Court on February 2.