A 30-year-old Florida woman was arrested in early February for parading around in the nude. What’s puzzling the police is that she was doing her nude routine up in New England when the temperature was around 20 degrees.

Lieutenant Snow - great name for a New England cop during the winter - gets a call that a woman wearing no clothing is walking around in front of a convenience store.

The responding lieutenant tells the woman to get into the back of his patrol car where it’s warm. Then he heads for the trunk to get a blanket.

Meanwhile, the woman, named Tess, squeezes past the side of the plastic security screen, and into the front seat of the patrol car. She puts the car in gear and takes off, leaving the lieutenant standing there holding the blanket.

Lt. Snow calls for backup. Meanwhile, the woman finds out how to activate the blue lights and siren. Now traffic is scrambling to get out of her way. Of course the siren makes it easy for the pursuing cops to find her.

Police finally force the woman off the road but not before she manages to do about $1,000 worth of damage to two patrol cars. "Actually, I was pleased that there wasn’t any more damage than that," says the lieutenant.

Now the nude woman is wrapped in a warm blanket and handcuffed before she is put in the back of another patrol car. When she walks into the jail, an officer finds a crack pipe held tightly in her fist.

Backtracking the events of the evening, police find a pile of women’s clothing on the front steps of the rooming house she’d been thrown out of earlier that evening.

Tess now faces charges of indecent exposure, auto theft, driving while impaired, speeding to elude arrest, driving with a revoked license, possession of narcotics paraphernalia, and assaulting a police officer.

When Tess gets out of jail, I’m betting the New England cops will buy her a bus ticket back to Florida.