Thanks to Bukakke Boy for sending this one in:

Mike Rucker , a former TV weatherman who is running for the Leon County Commission in District 5 as an independent, has apologized to a man who lives in Betton Hills for urinating in his yard.

"What I did was wrong, of course," Rucker said in an interview with the Tallahassee Democrat. "I'm truly embarrassed about it, and I would truly never do this again."

Rucker was putting up campaign signs about 8 a.m. Tuesday when he noticed one of his signs missing from the man's yard. Rucker, who had earlier obtained permission to put up the sign, replaced it with a new one and continued driving through the neighborhood.

When he passed by the man's house a few minutes later, Rucker noticed the new sign was missing. He said he rang the man's doorbell twice, but no one answered. Rucker, thinking the sign had been stolen, walked through the man's back yard to see whether he could find it, he said. Rucker found one of his signs and concluded that the man didn't want the sign in his yard.

Rucker said he needed to use the bathroom very badly and was 10 minutes away from the nearest facilities. He said he walked to the side of the man's house in an area thick with shrubs and urinated. The man's wife saw Rucker from a bathroom window and told her husband.

The man spoke briefly with Rucker in the yard, and Rucker left. He later came back to the man's house to apologize, but no one answered the door. Rucker called the man Wednesday and apologized.

Rucker said he suffers from a prostate condition and a urinary urgency condition and was in extreme pain at the time.