BERLIN (Reuters) – A German flasher stunned lawyers during his appeal hearing on a flashing conviction by stripping off in court, authorities said Thursday.

“The court withdrew for deliberations and during the adjournment the man removed his clothes again,” said a spokesman for the court in the western city of Duisburg. “It appears he sees it as art, and views himself as a living work of art.”

The 60-year-old was in court to appeal against his conviction for running onto the pitch naked during a girl’s soccer match and striking a range of “body builder poses,” the spokesman said.

State prosecutors filed fresh charges of indecent behavior against the man after the court incident.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – A 52-year-old man prosecutors called a “career flasher” was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison after pleading no contest to charges he exposed himself to a woman on a commuter train.

Police arrested Kenneth Ray Burton of San Francisco last year after he allegedly began masturbating in front of a woman on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train.

Prosecutors sought the lengthy prison sentence because Burton already had two prior convictions for indecent exposure and a previous conviction on six counts related to sexual assault, San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.

The sentence of 13 years, four months in state prison was handed down Wednesday in San Mateo County Superior Court after Burton agreed to plead no contest to five felony counts of indecent exposure. He originally faced a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.

“Our concern was, ‘Are we being too lenient? Are we adequately protecting the public?’” Wagstaffe said. “We have a person here who has done this for many, many years. And with all likelihood, he will be doing it again.”

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Green Bay police are again looking for a naked man who has been running through yards wearing only a ski mask to cover his face. Police in Green Bay and nearby Appleton have investigated about 60 similar reports over the past two years. They believe the same man is responsible.

The most recent incident happened just after midnight Thursday on Green Bay’s east side.

A 29-year-old woman said she had been sitting in her living room working on her laptop when she noticed a naked man outside her window. She went to see if her door was locked and the man ran off, police said.

The man has been described as thin and white.

Police said the incident might be connected to one that happened Wednesday night in Allouez.

Three children in a home reported seeing a man wearing only a bandanna outside their glass patio door about 11 p.m., police said.

NEW YORK – A restaurateur who admitted he exposed himself to a woman in a subway car, an act the woman captured with her cellular telephone camera, was sentenced Tuesday to two years probation and ordered to undergo counseling.

Daniel Hoyt, 43, was sentenced in Manhattan Criminal Court on his guilty plea to public lewdness, a misdemeanor. He admitted he exposed himself while on the R train on Aug. 24, 2005.

Hoyt and Tolentin Chan founded the popular Quintessence raw-food restaurants on East 10th Street in the East Village and on Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side.

Judge Alexander Jeong rejected a request by Assistant District Attorney Andrew Zakrocki to follow a Probation Department recommendation and send Hoyt to jail.

“I will impose the sentence promised,” Jeong said. He added that Hoyt has to continue once-weekly psychiatric counseling for the entire two-year probation period. The judge warned that a probation violation could get Hoyt 90 days in jail.

As Hoyt left court, he said, I apologize for my actions and I’m sorry for anyone I may have offended.”

A court complaint says Hoyt committed four similar acts of public lewdness — one on a No. 1 or No. 9 train on Oct. 19, 2004, near West 72nd Street, and three others on R trains in the East Village on July 13, Aug. 19 and Aug. 24, 2005.

While Hoyt was in court, about a half-dozen women marched with signs outside the courthouse, denouncing the defendant. Their demonstration was in response to his alleged comments in a magazine interview, that some women liked what he had been doing and probably would want to date him.

One marcher was Thao Nguyen, 23, the woman who caught Hoyt “in flagrante” with her cell phone camera. She carried a sign that said, “Actually, if I met you in a bar I wouldn’t date you.”

HORATIO, Ark. – A man accused of repeatedly exposing himself to the same woman has been arrested after the woman took a picture of him naked standing on a highway and called police.

The man had exposed himself five times in the last six months to the woman as she traveled on Arkansas 41 for work. She did not know the man, police said.

“I think he had singled her out, and she was loaded and ready for bear the next time she saw him,” Arkansas State Police Cpl. Ray Gentry said. “She slowed down in her car to about 40 mph and got a picture of him.”

Robert Ernest Vallee, 37, of Lockesburg was arrested in Sevier County on two counts of indecent exposure stemming from incidents Thursday and Jan. 19 and one count of harassment. All are misdemeanors.

“He admitted he was the suspect in question and he had exposed himself to her. He admitted he was nude except for a shirt covering his face,” Gentry said.

The woman said she didn’t want to press charges.

Authorities also had gotten a complaint from a 17-year-old female of a man exposing himself. He reportedly would stand on the side of the highway next to his car.

Vallee was arrested Thursday after the woman called a dispatcher, saying a man in a silver Dodge Neon had exposed himself to her, according to a Sevier County Sheriff’s Department report. The woman said the vehicle turned onto Arkansas 24 East and she waited for an officer at a Horatio convenience store.

Gentry encountered the vehicle traveling east on Arkansas 24 near its intersection with Arkansas 329 and stopped it.

“He had put his pants back on by the time I made the arrest. He was worried I was going to charge him with reckless driving for putting his pants back on while driving,” Gentry said.

A Sevier County deputy took the woman from the store to the traffic stop and she identified the vehicle.

Vallee was taken to the Sevier County Jail in De Queen. He posted bond and was released from jail Friday.