It's not something that you see every day - but it's also not the strangest thing to happen on the streets of New Orleans.

That would be the sight of a woman running down the road completely naked, trying to get away from a police cruiser that is right beside her.

Footage of the strange scene was uploaded to LiveLeak on Sunday and shows the woman fleeing on foot in the nude.

Indecent exposure: The woman was caught on camera by a passerby running down the road and past a McDonald's in New Orleans as a police cruiser trailed her

Streaker: The woman was originally walking down the road (left) but then starts to pick up speed near the McDonald's restaurant (right)

The footage clearly shows a police cruiser following the woman, however she continues to run away

The video appears to have been taken by two men who drove past the woman in a truck.

'She is butt naked!' one of the men can be heard saying in the clip, which had had over 7,000 hits by Monday morning.

At the start of the clip, the woman is just walking down the street.

However she starts to run as she nears a McDonald's restaurant, presumably after noticing the police car out front.

New Orleans could not comment on the video when contacted on Monday.

It's unclear if the woman was taken into custody.