No shirt, no pants, no service

You've got to love it when a story from real life is heaped with pile after pile of absurdities. Case in point:

A male Japanese air force major caught naked while shopping for women's underwear has been suspended from his duties for 10 days, a spokeswoman at his base said on Friday.

The man, on his way home from a late-night farewell party for a colleague in early September, stripped off his clothes behind a convenience store before going in and buying panties and pantyhose.

"He had just his wallet and his shoes on him," said the spokeswoman from the Matsushima air base in Miyagi, northern Japan.

"He thought it would be funny if he went into the store stark naked, that it would surprise people."

I would imagine he was probably right about that. Japan seems like a strange country, but I would imagine there aren't many male military officers there who shop for ladies underwear in the buff. At least I would hope not, anyway.