OAKLAND, Calif. - A carpenter who keeps his clothes clean by working in the nude was arrested after a client returned home early and found him building bookcases in the buff.



Percy Honniball, 50, was charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure this week for the October incident.

He told officers he stripped before crawling under the client's house to do electrical work because he didn't want to soil his clothes, police said.

Honniball said Thursday that working in the nude gave him a better range of motion and that a skilled craftsman can work clothing — and injury — free.

"In certain situations such as demolitions where you are smashing rock you want to be clothed and protected because this rock can harm you," he said.

Honniball was caught working naked in Berkeley three times in the last six years and put on probation for violating a city ordinance. Honniball said he doesn't plan to do work in his birthday suit again.

Police said he apologized to the startled homeowner, but was fired. The homeowner paid Honniball for the finished work, but deducted $200.

"He kept out that amount to change his locks," Oakland Police Officer Jesse Grant said.source

very very funny gross but funny.
I dont know what i would do if that happened to me

The guy should maybe take some of the money he earns and buy some 'just-for-work' coveralls, or maybe some laundry detergent.

Obviously the guy has some kind of compulsion to be nude. It's not like he was trying to do sexual things with the bookcases or his tools (hopefully).

I can only imagine if he was hammering something low....and caught something....ouch!

Hey as long as he was just doing his job and not having sex on the job I don't see a problem. Though I can see if he was working on a window or something it might cause a problem.

...Power tool and nudity do not mix well...

Friends don't let frinds do woodwork in the nude...

Did you read the part about him having a better range of motion? How much of a range did he need?

Range smange.....he's just braggin!

Would he really need to brag about it? If any of the women he was with are like me they would of done it for him.

If only he had injured himself earlier in his career when nude, I`m sure that would have put an end to his desire to get nude when working.

i just got an image of this guy hammering a nail into something a little personal ewwww.....AHHH there it is again think happy thoughts think happy thoughts *rocks back and forth with hands over ears*

Um, what's this guys number?

I don't even want to know you are asking that.

Just a joke, hence the smiley.

Oh and I needed a bookshelf.....

If it increases productivity why not?

Exactly. It's better than what is on tv.....

lol so true

I kind of understand. When I used to help my husband do drywall, I would often take off my shirt. It's not like I was so obsessed with keeping clean, but the drywall mud clogged up the washing machince and everything we washed for a week or so afterwards got all full of it. It was also a heck of a lot cooler. There was never anything sexual going on, it was just convienence.

I need some drywall work done.....