A Florida lawyer has been caught running through people's gardens naked.

An unidentified woman in the city of Gainsville woke at 6am to find a nude, unfamiliar man standing at the end of her bed. He fled when he realised she was awake.

Officers called to the scene spotted a middle-aged man wearing only a skull cap and tennis shoes running away through neighbouring yards. This being America, they shot him with a stun gun.

It was called a 'cork shot' and Officer Davies knew he had one chance to make it.

The nudey man turned out to be Ronald Combs, 59, a senior assistant attorney for the city. The Gainsville Sun reports that he was granted personal leave from his job after The Incident. Combs has been provisionally charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling, prowling, and resisting arrest without violence or underpants.