Patrons of a Sandy Springs Waffle House lost their appetites last week after a naked man “built like a potato” paced in front of the building and urinated on the main entrance door.
“This is the Waffle House,” a female employee told a 911 dispatcher June 7, according to WSB. “A gentleman just got out of his car and is naked standing in front of my door.
“Oh my God, he just peed on my door and now he’s walking inside. ‘Sir, you cannot come in here.’”
Witnesses said the man, later identified as 36-year-old Bashir Rasheed, parked a beige BMW in the traffic lane in front of the Waffle House, got out of the car in his birthday suit, and began pacing around while rambling on about the heat.
Derwin Rodgers was enjoying his lunch when Rasheed showed up, so he decided to livestream the incident on Facebook for his friends, according to the news site.
“It kind of shocked me as a customer, ruined my meal,” Rodgers said. “I immediately went video. I didn’t know what he was going to do.”
The man seemed delusional, he said.
“I don’t know what was wrong with the guy,” Rodgers told WSB. “He was saying a lot of different things. He’s hot, he’s burning up. Apparently he was. It must have been Death Valley out there. He was butt naked.”
The Facebook video shows Rasheed return to his car and leave the area. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports police caught up with him down the street, where the bizarre behavior continued.
Rasheed was allegedly aware enough to understand where he was, but wouldn’t tell police why he was naked. Police contend he grabbed himself and urinated in front of them, according to the news site.
“That was totally inappropriate,” Rodgers told WSB. “I wouldn’t know how to tell my kid what was going on at that time, to see a grown man. He was built like a potato.”
Rasheed, of East Point, was eventually taken to a local hospital for an evaluation, ticketed for public indecency and released, the AJC reports.
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