Severe Burns Send Texas Nude Sunbather to Hospital

From the "it's gotta hurt department."

A 30-year-old man who slept nude on a boat dock near Austin TX suffered second-degree burns on 40 percent of his body and was taken to the hospital by helicopter, according to Austin-Travis County EMS spokesman Warren Hassinger.

The man jumped in Lake Travis, near Mc Cormick Mountain Drive in Hudson Bend, and refused to come out of the water, Hassinger said. When the man later came out near Mile Marker 5, authorities saw the second-degree burns, which are open blisters, Hassinger said.

STAR Flight transported the man to University Medical Center Brackenridge, Hassinger said.