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Acrobat Yeiner Garizabalo, 24, purportedly climbed on top of turnstiles and performed a number of gymnastics stunts.
The naked acrobat who turned a San Francisco train station into a three-ring circus pounced on passersby, gyrated on turnstiles and performed a series of gymnastics stunts to the horror of commuters.
The bizarre behavior at the 16th Street Mission Station was caught on video May 10 and uploaded to YouTube this week.
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Video purportedly shows acrobat Yeiner Garizabalo, 24, manhandling a commuter as a transit worker tries to stop him.
The three-minute clip begins with the suspect — in the buff and with a distinct mane of black hair — lunging toward a young woman walking back in fright.
She screams as she falls to the ground.
The man then pushes her down again while a transit worker comes to her aid. A station agent filming the incident ushers her to an enclosed booth, and the young woman continues crying hysterically.
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A BART worker in San Francisco tries to corral a naked man May 10.
“Just stay here. Oh my God, I cannot believe that,” the station agent says just as the man does a handstand off of a turnstile.
The station agent can be heard calling for the San Francisco Police Department while the nut job puts his arms around an older man. The transit worker kicks at him to get him off.
Then the screwball jumps onto a newsstand, does a few bicycle kicks into the air and cartwheels off the platform.
Yeiner Garizabalo, 24, was charged with misdemeanor battery in the May 10 incident at a San Francisco train station.
He is seen lying on the ground and harassing another straphanger before the video cuts off.
Transit officials identified the suspect as Yeiner Garizabalo, 24, although friends told the San Francisco Chronicle he goes by the name Yeiner Perez.
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A San Francisco transit worker kicks a naked man who began accosting straphangers at a train station May 10.
A friend with the circus troupe ClownSnotBombs told the newspaper that Perez performed with them from January to early May. Perez was described as a “workaholic acrobat,” although he was a no-show to practices in the days leading up to his train station shenanigans.
“He’s been through a lot of stress — he seems to have been having a breakdown,” said troupe leader Slim Chance.
The friends don’t believe he was on drugs.
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A naked nut job terrorized commuters on May 10 at a San Francisco train station.
“I don’t know. We’re thinking he may have even had a stroke sometime last year,” Chance said. “We’ve been trying to piece it together ourselves.”
Alicia Trost, a spokeswoman for the Bay Area Rapid Transit, told CNN it took seven minutes for cops to get to the station.
Perez was taken to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was released. He was charged with misdemeanor battery.
“We’re requesting an order from the district attorney to keep him off BART property,” Trost said.
