A nude man was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs after he spent five hours stuck in a chimney. Police said Michael Urbano, 23, locked himself out of his stepmother's home in Hayward, California, and decided to try to get in using a cable TV wire to help him rappel down the inside of the chimney.

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.

An Indonesian maid posed in her underwear for pictures that she hoped her female employer would put in the Indonesian version of Playboy. However, after complaining that she received no payment the woman was informed that it had been a hoax. "It was a joke by the employer, but the maid took it seriously," said M. Ganesha, head of a complaints bureau run by the Malaysian Indian Youth Council, to which the maid turned for help in getting payment.

A Florida state child abuse investigator was notified Monday that she will be fired for taking her clothes off on Howard Stern's radio show. According to DCF spokeswoman Marilyn Munoz, Palm Beach County investigator Alison Cushman was notified by the Department of Children and Family services and told she has 10 days to contest her firing

An unusual tax workshop is being held at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center until the mid-April tax filing deadline where prostitutes gain help from the workers on hand to explain things like the earned-income-tax credit. The event was organized by a group called Prostitutes of New York, a support and advocacy group, and by a sex industry magazine called Spread. Prostitutes of New York advocate the legalization of prostitution and meets clandestinely to avoid the police and pimps.