Someone even wrote a song about this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zVZKtSa6Sw
Cops Chase Car, Find 20 Nude People
Associated Press -- 20/Aug/93
Police in Vinton, La, were surprised when a driver wearing only a towel got out of a car they stopped, then got back in and sped off. They were dumbfounded when the car hit a tree and disgorged 20 people wearing nothing at all.
"The Lord told them to get rid of all their belongings and go to Louisiana. So they got rid of all their clothes and pocketbooks and wallets and identification and the license plate off their car and came to our gorgeous state," Vinton Police Chief Dennis Drouillard said.
All 20 were from Floydada, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle, about 550 miles from the southwest Louisiana town of Vinton. Drouillard said he believed they all were related.
Driver Sammy Rodriguez and his brother, Danny, both said they were Pentecostal preachers, Drouillard said.
Floydada Police Chief James Hale said he had been looking for the Rodriguez family since Tuesday night, when relatives reported them missing. "They made statements like the devil was after them and Floydada was going to be destroyed if they stayed here," Hale said.
The family left in 5 or 6 cars, abandoning 1 in Lubbock and a second in San Angelo. Police found a thrid in Galveston, along with the family's clothes, pocketbooks, wallets and other belongings.
The chase in Vinton began after a campground owner called police. A Calcasieu Parish deputy stopped their car, and a man wearing only a towel got out.
"When the officer went to ask what was going on, he jumped back in and took off," Drouillard said. They sped down Vinton's main street until the car hit a tree at the baseball park at the end of town.
Fifteen adults, as old as age 63, and 5 children, piled out of the 1990 Pontiac Grand Am.
"And they were completely nude. All 20 of them. Didn't have a stitch of clothes on. I mean, no socks, no underwear, no nothin'. Five of them [the children] were in the trunk," Drouillard said.
The car was totaled, but the injuries all were minor, Drouillard said.
Rodriguez was booked with reckless driving, flight from an officer, property damage and several minor traffic violations.

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.-Khalil Gibran

I remember this incident in the news. I was living in Baton Rouge at the time. Will there be a movie?

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I remember when we were free!

The lord told them to go to Louisiana.....

Yes Reb, and if they would have made it all the way to the French Quarter in New Orleans, they would have fit right in!

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I remember when we were free!

I used to occasionally hear a voice that told me to get nekkid and go to Lousiana, but I haven't heard it since I quit drinking.

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I hear them once a year about this time telling me to head to New Orleans. But then I remember what Davy Crockett said, "...you may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas" and I stay put.

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.-Khalil Gibran

Your right, 20 nude Pentecostals in a Pontiac is very strange.
I've got another one for you. Round these parts they have an annual NUDE bike ride. Thats right, they pick a worm summer day and parade Bare A#$*@ naked through the streets on there mountain bikes, or what ever. No One gets arrested and your allowed to turn your head the other way if you choose. If the poor animal that provided the leather for those Bike Seats had a clue where he would (END UP). he would have surly run for the hills.
----Danny,

Did Shel Silverstein start this thread....

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Good material for a Shel Silverstein song, but Chris Stuart of Chris Stuart and Backcountry beat him to it. "Twenty Naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac" on his album Saints and Strangers. It's a good 'un!