A Florida man’s naked Sunday stroll was abruptly ended when he was tasered by deputies.

Justin Lee Guscinski, 30, of The Villages, was walking along a street naked just after midnight while holding a silver pipe and smoking marijuana, according to Villages-News.

Deputies approached Guscinski, who sprinted to his property and threatened them.

“You are on my property; I have the legal right to shoot you,” Guscinski allegedly told them, before shoving a deputy and running into the home, according to Villages-News,

Deputies ordered him out of the home, and tasered him when he came out. After being tasered, he attempted to remove the Taser’s prongs, prompting another deputy to use the Taser on him again.

Guscinski ran around the home before being apprehended.

He was then taken to a hospital where a nursing staff attempted to treat him by giving him an IV. Guscinski fought them, kicking a nurse in the head, the Villages-News reported.

He was eventually booked into Sumter County Detention Center on Monday, charged with two third-degree felony counts of battery as well as charges of marijuana possession, possession of drug equipment and battery of a firefighter/EMT/officer and held on $17,000 bond.

Read more at Villages-News.

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