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Man Accused Of Showing The Full Monty At Chipmunks Screening

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jan 4, 2012 3:25PM

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Edward L. Brown (Image Credit: Cook County Sheriff's Office)
Film-goers at a suburban multiplex last week got an unwanted preview when a man flashed them from the front row.

Edward L. Brown has been held on $100,000 bond after he allegedly stood up completely naked a half-hour into the 4 p.m. screening of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked at North Riverside Park Mall's Classic Cinemas and exposed his chestnuts to the 86 patrons in attendance. Two North Riverside policemen who were patrolling the mall quickly responded to the scene and managed to get Brown to put his clothes back on, then arrested him without further incident.

Brown said in the police report he was let into the theater for free by an unknown female, who he claimed told him to strip in the front row and wait for her with the promise of sex, smoking crack and doing heroin. (We suspect drugs would be needed to sit through a "Chipmunks" movie.) Brown has been charged with charged with three felony counts of sexual exploitation of children, aged 4, 6 and 6; one misdemeanor count of sexual exploitation of a minor aged 14; and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct. He's due in court Jan. 9.