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We're in Rochester, New York, on the banks of the Erie Canal.

This major transportation route is usually bustling with barges, ferrying goods to New York City from the Great Lakes.

Today, though, there isn't a single barge in sight.

Instead, both canal banks are crammed full with thousands of excitable people and they're

all here to see one man. Right now that smartly dressed man all five foot five of him, is striding

convidently up the iron bridge that spans the canal some 25 feet above the

water. Cheers and applause carry him towards the center.

He reaches a policeman standing on the bridge, nods and begins stripping out of his clothes.

The policeman watches seemingly unmoved as he sheds his smart suit to reveal

a muscular athletic body. Now, with only long white underpants covering his modesty, he holds his hands out, wrists clasped together to the

waiting policeman, who promptly shackles him in not one but two pairs of handcuffs.

As the man holds his clamped wrists up for the crowd to see,

the onlookers become more boisterous.

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