By ALANAH MAY ERIKSEN
A Rotorua resident has shed new light on the group of streakers that shocked onlookers at an under-13 rugby game.
The male streakers in their 20s, believed to be on an end-of-rugby-season road-trip, featured in Wednesday's Daily Post.
The men were first seen
at midday last Saturday running naked up the main road in Tirau, then about 3pm, five were seen streaking across the Kahukura Rugby Club's field in Rotorua, interrupting a rugby game.
Ten minutes later a man dressed in a yellow cape ran across the field but was tackled by the referee.
Then the men were spotted by an Auckland couple - Bryan and Jan Moran - at the Rotorua Lakefront playing rugby.
John Dennis of Rotorua told the Daily Post he had spoken to the streakers who claimed to be from an Auckland university.
There were also two young women streaking with the men.
Mr Dennis said the group was on an orienteering exercise where they had to stop at various sites and streak. He first saw the "car-loads" of streakers outside the Bendon Factory in Hamilton, when he was on his way home to Rotorua.
"They were dancing about on top of a car waving everything about in the breeze," he said.
He then followed the group to the Castle Pamela in Tirau.
"It was just by chance that I saw them, that I happened to be in the same places, very funny hi-jinks."
Mr Dennis managed to get a couple of photos of the streakers before he ran out of film.
"I've made it a rule now to always travel with a camera and have enough film in it. You never know what you might see," he said.
The Daily Post also received an anonymous call saying they saw the streakers playing in the fountain at the City Focus and Alison St in Rotorua. City Focus manager Dennis Olliver was reviewing video footage.
Staff at Auckland University said they hadn't heard about any of their students streaking.
