Naked New Yorker: "I Had a Bad Day" - Now With Video

The 26-year-old Yale graduate who walked around Times Square naked on Thursday spoke to the NY Post, which made him its cover boy, about his experience. Josh Drimmer denied that it was a stunt and said - from his hospital bed at Bellevue - "It was an extreme panic attack brought on by days of not sleeping...I'm all right. Tell everyone I'm OK. I had a bad day."

Good to know that Drimmer is better, because he has his fans: One Times Square office worker told the Post, "I thought it was great. He's not hurting anyone." Drimmer works for the media company MediaVest, which is located at 1675 Broadway at West 52nd Street. A co-worker said that Drimmer seemed out of it (he was "talking crazy") recently while another said the Greenpoint resident once "had a meltdown over the coffee machine."

Public nudity is considered a public nuisance, and the police did stop Drimmer from continuing his nakedness - check out this Post photo gallery of Drimmer walking around and his meeting with the police. In New York, it turns out that women can go topless, since men are allowed to. Jacob Riis Park's beach has a clothing optional area, and here's a funny Time article from 1974 noticing how more and more Americans were going naked at the beach.

And Drimmer wanted to clear something up: The Post called him a "curly-haired hipster" but he said, "I am not a hipster."

Update:
We found a brief 17-second video of a Times Square worker who filmed Drimmer (or at least we think it's him - the resolution isn't the best) running back and forth on the street and then is apparently stopped by the cops. The office was stunned and giggly!

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By Jen Chung in News on October 13, 2007 12:57 PM

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guest

I note that on that MySpace page he lists his physique as 'Body Builder'...

guest

hmm, maybe the guy had some Bocaj Vodka, that shit will drive you insane!!!

ed_Extinct

big deal.

Think2wice

Ooh, ooh, my turn. Let's start with the photo:

Where is the moment we needed the mooost...

Josh on the phone with his editor, "Uh-huh, yeah, I'm gonna have to cancel my one o'clock...uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah, yeah...just tell them I'm having I'm having a bad day"

You kick up the leaves and the magic is looost...

Didn't Dubya earn an MBA from Yale...snap!

They tell me your blue skies fade to graay

In a serious tone of voice Josh says, "I'm naked to protest the Myanmar military's...monks...oh fuck it, fuck, fuck, fuckity, FUCK..GRaaaURAAUooorRAR!!!!!

They tell me your passion's gone awaay

#9 and #19...Amen.

And I don't need no carryin' ooooooon...

guest

I could just imagine Hitler at a war crimes tribunal "Sure, I killed countless numbers of allied forces and gassed a whole bunch of jews but my emo haircut does not make me a HiPSTER!!! write that shit down, I am not a Hipster! I don't care if I go down in history as the worst piece of shit in the world but I AM NOT A HIPSTER!!!!"

guest

it's funny that hipsters hate being called hipsters. Nobody ever says "I'm a Hipster Yo!". It's even more hilarious that he's ashamed of being called a hipster but not being stark naked.

guest

hmm, small apple.

SP

he's way too fat to be a hipster. hipsters dont eat anything.

guest

Living proof that life in NYC can drive ANYONE bonkers.

guest

josh drimmer is a hipster.

LukeC

It's really sad that in this camera-saturated world a crazy guy can't even go off his rocker for a bit without having it completely documented by The Post. Hopefully he'll land a good job because of this, but I fear the opposite.

guest

hmm, I haven't yet entirely ruled out the possibility that controlled substances were a factor in Drimmer's "panic attack."

guest

#10 - ditto re your comments.

What I liked best is when the cop asked, "You got ID on you?" (Yeah, like people walk around with their ID tattooed on their buttacle area.)

Ethan

I think there is an opening over at Media Vest.

guest

douche69 still going on with your trite boring hipster comments? god you are pathetic and boring, also again you were proven wrong, he had a job not unemployed like you wrote before, douche69 you are a dumbass

Dude69

Also he's SOOO hipster! Pale, skinny white guy from the midwest with a "creative" job. He could've used his trucker hat to cover up his shame.

Dude69

He should be glad that he wasn't taken down hard by the NYPD for this moronic hipster stunt, that would be a really "bad day"!

guest

I remember seeing a guy on his "bad" day once.

Leaving for school at 7am, temps in the low 30's and I see a naked man handcuffed sitting on the sidewalk outside my building. and, cops just standing around dilly dallying.

not even the decency to get him inside to a warm area. sitting on the cold concrete ground.

guest

Bay day?

A typo, I assume, or it's some sort of weird Brooklyn graffiti slang I'm not privy to.

guest

I sure am an asshole this morning!

guest

1-drummer or drimmer, c'mon jin

2-he's a hipster for shure, all douchebags are hipsters, or is it the reverse? who cares.

3-glad to see that his one accomplishment has amounted to so much, 'yale graduate', wtf does that have to do with ANYTHING.