WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Police said Michael Madson let it all hang out, and now the Des Moines high school teacher is without a job.

Madson, 60, faces a misdemeanor count of public exposure after a bizarre incident at the West Valley Mall around 1: 15 p.m. last Saturday, WHOTV reports.

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“This individual approached the food counter at the mall. And when he did so, he exposed the lower half of his body and his zipper was open on his pants,” West Des Moines Police Sgt. Jason Bryan told the news site.

The female employee immediately contacted mall security, who approached Madson and asked for identification. The veteran Lincoln High School teacher allegedly told the officers his ID was in his car, the Des Moines Register reports.

“When they asked him for ID, he was being escorted to his car at that time and he tried to take off running,” Bryan said.

After a brief foot chase, the mall cops apprehended Madson and called West Des Moines police. Madson was cited for indecent exposure and released from police custody, according to the Register.

“Michael Madson was immediately placed on administrative leave and not allowed to return to the school,” Des Moines Public School District spokeswoman Amanda Lewis said in a statement, KCCI reports. “He resigned his position on Tuesday.”

An Excel document posted to the district website with staff information from the 2014-15 school year shows Madson worked as a business education teacher at Lincoln High School with a salary of $60,553.

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The document shows he was hired into the district in 2001.

Aside from his teaching role, Madson also served as a liason between the district and the Des Moines Education Association, the local teachers union, WHOTV reports.

A commenter on KCCI pointed out that the incident Saturday wasn’t Madson’s first run-in with police over similar stunts.

A 2001 report by The Courier shows a Michael Harvey Madson, then 45, was arrested for peeping at a 14-year-old girl over a dividing wall at a local Tropical Tanning salon. The girl yelled for her mother, and Madson walked out of the business. He later went to the police station voluntarily to deny the allegations.

Madson was working at West High School at the time, after being fired from the Waterloo school district for similar behavior.

According to the Courier:

The Waterloo Board of Education fired Madson in 1995 after he was found in the lobby of a local hotel wearing nothing but a T-shirt. At the time, Madson told police he was swimming in the pool and took off his shorts so he wouldn’t get the lobby’s chair wet.

Originally charged with indecent exposure, Madson pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of criminal trespass after a mistrial. He received a 30-day suspended jail sentence and was placed on one year of supervised probation.

Madson appealed his termination, and the Public Employment Relations Board ruled the school district didn’t have grounds to fire him, said Sharon Miller, a spokeswoman for the district. …

“If a criminal offense is not such that it would impact on the employee’s ability to carry out his or her job duties, then we don’t have legal grounds for terminating their employment. If an offense occurs outside of the job setting and can’t be shown to directly be related to the employee’s ability to do the job, it’s very likely the employee will not be terminated,” she said.

Several folks offered their opinions online about why they believe Madson chose to resign amid the most recent charge, rather than fight to keep his job as he has in the past.

“Probably a good decision to resign,” KCCI commenter SayWhat? posted. “He knows you can’t show your junk at the mall.”

“He’s 60 and has taught 29 years,” Mr N pointed out. “That means he hits the ‘rule of 88’ and can take full … retirement benefits starting immediately.”

“I believe he was planning to retire at the end of the year anyway,” Sensible Girl responded.