Sounds to me like he was going to take off whatever he was wearing to be able to jump into that creek, whether it was a kilt, p@nts, a kaftan, or a clown suit. But of course, since it was a kilt they had to play up that angle in the headline to put a little scare into the public about the risk of indecent exposure due to kilt wearing. Like you couldn't achieve the same result by dropping trou. Ridiculous but that is the popular press, feeding on public fears and ignorance. Too bad. For all of us, kilt wearers or other.