Attention anyone who was thinking about attempting some idiotic public stunt during the tempest of Hurricane Sandy: Don’t bother, you’ve already been beaten.

With the chilly rain and blustery wind intensifying this morning, one D.C. resident figured he’d get in one last pre-hurricane jog. Except the oncoming storm apparently scrambled his brain. The runner’s attire consisted of nothing more than a pair of sneakers, black nylon shorts and a mask in the shape of a horse’s head. No shirt, just the horse face.

An NBC4 camera tracking the storm in flood-prone Bloomingdale spotted the horsy jogger, offering perhaps the first visual proof that Hurricane Sandy will make crazy folks of us all. But animist behavior in the face of a hurricane is hardly unprecedented. When Hurricane Ike approached the Texas coast in 2008, a person in a bear suit went out for a stroll.

Anyway, we salute today’s crazy horse-mask jogger. He wins Hurricane Sandy, no contest:

P.S.: Horse-mask jogger, please call us. We should talk.

UPDATE, 10:30 a.m.: We have heard from the horse-mask jogger! Jimmy Kruyne, who bared his chest and donned that headpiece, tells DCist he just wanted to brighten people’s moods on a dark, doom-filled day. “Little spontaneous jogging hopefully put a smile on people’s face before this awful storm,” he says.