14 DAY TRIAL // Over the weekend, a 19-year-old man learned the hard way never to mistake the reality on film for the one he sees on an everyday basis. Sean Stanley Smith was arrested for indecent exposure and resisting arrest after he ran into Harrah’s Lake Tahoe casino arcade without any clothes on, claiming to be a Terminator sent back from the future, Slash Film reports.
According to police statements made the other day, the 19-year-old man was seen running on the streets in the buff. A motorcyclist saw him and alerted the police. However, when officers arrived and summoned him to surrender himself, the man ran into the nearest casino he came across, where he startled the children who were playing video games. The Terminator had to be tasered to be subdued, the same publication says.
At the time of the arrest, Smith was convinced that he was a Terminator sent back from the future; for what purpose is yet to be determined, as he did not seem able to tell the arresting officers. Still, he insisted that he was actually a machine, and explained his lack of clothes by saying that he had just traveled to present time from the future – any “Terminator” fan must know that clothes are seen as redundant when traveling back in time in the film, which is why machines sent to protect John Connor are always as man or Mother Nature initially designed them.
Not really a Terminator, Smith later admitted to police officers having ingesting marijuana and LSD, which certainly played an important part in him believing to be anything more than just flesh and bones, several US publications point out. He was first taken to the Barton Memorial Hospital for treatment, and then moved to the Douglas County Jail at a later hour. As noted above, Smith has been charged with indecent exposure and resisting a peace officer.
In true “Terminator” style, Smith has not yet made any comment on whether he will “be back.”