I'm not sure when "streaking" got started, but I think Ray Stevens' song was recorded in 1974. In the Winter of 1974, I was a watch commander in the jail when officers brought in two brothers around 2 o'clock in the morning. I always think of them when "streaking" is mentioned. Now these two weren't exactly kids. They were in their mid-20s and they had decided to strip off and "streak" across the parking lot in front of an all night convenience store on Industrial Blvd. It probably would have been uneventful if it hadn't been for a squad car turning into the parking lot just as these two ran naked in front of the store; just their bad luck. The store backs up to the Trinity River levee; no lights or anything else between the back of the store and the levee except a storage building and a ditch full of water. Instead of running back to their car, when the brothers saw the squad car, they ran around behind the store. It was dark, and it was cold. One of them ran full tilt into the side of the storage building; knocked himself out cold. It took the 2 officers a few minutes to find the other brother; he was lying in the water in that ditch trying to hide.
So when the officers brought the 2 brothers to the jail, one had a few scrapes and scratches on his face from hitting that building running just as fast as he could run, and the other was wet and cold.:laughing: I'm pretty sure this was their first, and last, attempt at streaking.:laughing: