An MRC des Collines police officer recently caught an Ottawa woman taking a naked swim outside the police station in Wakefield, Que.
While driving over the Edelweiss bridge last Friday in his patrol car, the officer spotted a woman in a red bathing suit standing in the parking lot outside the police station.
By the time he got to the scene, the woman was already in the water, splashing around near the station’s boat dock.
The only problem?
Her bathing suit was left on the bank, according to MRC spokesman Const. Martin Fournel.
“It was quite the event,” Fournel said.
As politely as he could, the officer asked the woman what she was doing and if she could please get out of the river. She obliged, but not before making the situation more difficult for the officer.
She gave the officer a name and address that were both clearly fake, and was recalcitrant when the officer pressed her for more information, police said.
“She kind of gave him a hard time,” said Fournel.
After being threatened with arrest and for obstructing justice, the woman finally relented and gave the officer her real name and a Kanata address.
The officer let her go.
Instead of charging her with indecent exposure or any other criminal act, the officer mailed her a $200 fine for being on private property.
