{"id":2154,"date":"2026-04-30T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/2154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:57:08","slug":"man-accused-of-attending-mount-gambier-businesses-while-nude-faces-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/2154\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of attending Mount Gambier businesses while nude faces court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Mount Gambier man has been granted bail after he was allegedly nude while in businesses and on a busy main road three times in the past week. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in the Mount Gambier Magistrates Court today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was arrested on Wednesday night and charged with four counts of indecent behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Three of the counts relate to incidents in the past week, when the man was allegedly seen at a bakery and fast-food restaurant in Mount Gambier, and on Jubilee Highway East, while not wearing any clothes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The other count is related to an alleged incident at Surfers Way Beach at Port MacDonnell in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was granted bail and will appear in court again in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police searching for information<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Speaking to ABC South East SA Breakfast program, Limestone Coast Local Service Area officer in charge Superintendent Trent Cox said the alleged incidents were &#8220;bizarre&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Nobody goes into the workplace expecting to be confronted by somebody&#8217;s behaviour, whatever the person&#8217;s justification is,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Our retail industry is quite prevalent with young workers, particularly, just finding their feet in the world of employment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police officer in a cap standing in front of a police station\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b1665142df35bad56c68c58a753c0f02.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Trent Cox says police are seeking more information from the public. (ABC South East SA: Josh Brine)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;To be exposed to that, no pun intended, is shocking for them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Superintendent Cox said police were continuing their investigation and called for anyone with information to contact them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We&#8217;re also aware that the alleged offender in this is believed to have made calls across a number of days prior to yesterday&#8217;s events, sort of floating the idea of coming in and testing the waters about whether it would be acceptable,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;So, we&#8217;re collating all that information as well.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mount Gambier man has been granted bail after he was allegedly nude while in businesses and on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,1110,3272,3271,3273,3274],"class_list":{"0":"post-2154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-austrlia","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-indecent-behaviour","12":"tag-mount-gambier","13":"tag-nude-man-in-mount-gambier","14":"tag-nude-man-on-highway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}