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Love for Coldplay Made Man Want to Get Naked in Front of 50,000 People

This isn’t the guy in the article, of course. It’s Guy Berryman. But you get the point.Back on November 21, Coldplay played a show at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.  In attendance was Robert John Kiunisala, a 34 year-old music fan.

At some point during the show, Kiunisala became so caught up in the music that he decided to get naked. He felt the need to remove all his clothes.

He was not drunk.  He was not high.  He just had a rush of blood from the head (at least the one on his shoulders).

Once naked, things got weirder.  He was ulitimately charged with unlawful assaut, obstructing police, being a public nuisance, failure to leave a licensed premisis and one or two other things.  This included biting a security guard’s hand for up to a minute, drawing blood.

His lawyer’s explanation?  “The intoxicant was his extreme feeling for the group.  It triggered in him some primal response.”

A judge ordered Kuinisala to pay the security guard $800 in damages.  All other charges were dropped.

(Via the Brisbane Times)

Alan Cross

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