THIS is the painful moment rescuers tried to free a man who had managed to impale himself on a metal spike after trying jump a fence - while completely naked.

The streaker, who has been named only as 39-year-old Denis, stripped off at a party in the Russian the city of Tolyatti and decided to vault the railings.

Footage showed the careful operation to free the man, who was apparently drunk, from the sharp spike which was skewered through his left buttock.

His family had to call the police to rescue him before he could be taken to hospital for treatment to the deep wound.

It is unclear why he ran naked from the party or why he chose to jump the metal fence rather than use a gate, but he's since gained himself the nickname Drunk Tarzan.

An eyewitness told Komsomolskaya Pravda: "The man was completely naked.

"He got himself skewered on the fence just like a kebab.

"Members of his family had to call the police and rescue services to help him.

“It wasn’t an easy operation at all because of how deeply the spike was embedded.

“After a lot of work, ‘Tarzan’ was passed on to medics.”

Incredibly, it's not the first time rescuers have had to free a naked man impaled on a metal fence.

In 2013, police were chasing a suspect who had allegedly assaulted a woman when he got himself trapped on a 6ft spike in Miami, Florida.

According to ABC 10, fire rescue officers deemed it too risky to remove him from the fence as he was losing a lot of blood.

Instead they cut the entire section of railings and the man was taken to hospital with the metal still impaled, where he had it surgically removed.

The report from the time doesn't state whether the man was later arrested or charged over the assault allegation.