Some people can take the game “ding-dong ditch” a little too literally.

PANAMA CITY - Some people can take the game “ding-dong ditch” a little too literally.

Bay County deputies recently had to wrangle a sweaty, naked man after such an incident.

Officers initially arrived of about 3 a.m. June 5 to a call of a naked man ringing doorbells in a neighborhood near the 2400 block West 27th Street. A resident in the area told them that moments earlier, he was roused by someone repetitively ringing his front door bell. When he opened the door, there stood a stranger wearing slightly less than Adam or Eve.

The naked man then scurried off.

As officers sought him, one unit saw the man streak across the road, still naked and not quite ready to stop. He ran off, and a short time later was found hiding in some nearby bushes.

“As we approached the male, we gave him several verbal commands to come from the bushes and go to his knees, which he refused to do,” officers wrote. “The Male kept trying to back away from us as we approached him.”

The naked man was eventually wrestled to the ground where officers found out he “was sweating profusely even though he was naked.”

After a figurative run-around about whether he’d ingested any narcotics that evening, the naked man was taken to jail on misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure and resisting arrest without violence.