Not the Missionary Position

Some people visit California's old Spanish missions for spiritual reasons. Some visit just because the old places are beautiful. And then there's Alfred Thomas Steven of Huntington Beach.

KSBY, the NBC affiliate in for Santa Barbara [added: and San Luis Obispo], reports:

Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies come across a bizarre encounter at La Purisima Mission in Lompoc.

Around midnight they found a 69-year-old Huntington Beach man...naked and covered in oats.

Deputies say the man had covered himself in olive oil, rolled around in oats and allowed the horses at the mission to lick him clean.

He apparently told deputies this has always been a fantasy of his and drove up from the Los Angeles area to play it out.

Alfred Thomas Steven was cited and released for trespassing, animal cruelty and sexually assaulting an animal.

Notice that the story doesn't mention Orange County-- apparently in Santa Barbara, all perversions such as this are automatically associated with Los Angeles. Overshadowed by L.A. once again, although in this case, maybe that's not such a bad thing.