Western Quebec police seek to identify nude runner doing late-night hill repeats

A small community in western Quebec is grappling with a mystery as they aim to identify a nude runner caught on camera during a late-night jog in Val-des-Monts, Que., earlier this month.

According to a police report, the owner of a Val-des-Monts business discovered security footage showing someone running naked across his property on June 8 around 1:30 a.m. The video footage captures the man running up and down a gravel hill on private property before making a gesture to the surveillance camera and running off.

CTV News Ottawa reported that this was not the first incident of a late-night streaker in Val-des-Monts in the past two years. Local police believe the runner is somehow linked to Tenpenny Road Industrial Park, where he was spotted on surveillance footage.

“While the nudist runner may be funny to some people, the whole thing remains a criminal offense and is punishable by one or more statements of offense,” said MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais authorities to CTV News Ottawa.

In the video, the caucasian male appeared to be completely nude, not even wearing shoes, which would be quite uncomfortable when running on small stones. A quick Strava investigation to see if there were any nearby running KOM segments the streaker might have been targeting yielded no results.

The police have asked members of the public who may recognize or have any information about this naked runner to contact authorities at 819-459-2422, ext. 3262.

posted Saturday June 29th