'I reckon'

An officer saw a car pulled off to the side of the road on Hwy. 17.

He pulled over to see if the driver was okay. The officer found a woman sitting in the driver's seat. She said she pulled over because she saw a sign for the local hospital and wanted to write down the name of the hospital. Funny thing is, she is a Mount Pleasant resident and the hospital has been here for many years.

The fact that the driver reeked of alcohol was not lost on the officer, either.

When asked if she'd been drinking, she said she had one beer at her brother's house on James Island and was on her way home. The officer asked for her paperwork and while she was digging for it she said she should not have admitted to having a beer.

The officer asked her to step out of her car and perform some tests. When asked if she knew her alphabet she said, "I reckon." She didn't "reckon" too good because she could not say the alphabet correctly.

When it came time for the one-legged stand she said she had a broken toe on her "left leg" but would try it. That broken toe really messed her up because she almost fell over trying to do the test.

When it came time for the heel to toe test she said she was not coordinated enough to do that one. But she tried it anyway and when she got to the end of the line where she was supposed to turn around, she simply decided to walk backwards.

As interesting as this was, this was not part of the instructions for the test. She was eventually arrested and officers searched her car, which sent her over the edge. She demanded to know why they were looking in her car.

They explained that they were simply inventorying the vehicle for the tow company. Then, she started worrying about her purse.

The officer got her purse for her, which didn't delay things as she had hoped, and she was hauled off to jail for DUI.

There's no need

Guilty people will say anything to get out of trouble. Like this next guy who got pulled over for crossing the center line on the highway several times, indicating to the officer that the driver might be drunk.

The officer told him he suspected him of being drunk and the driver replied that he was not drunk and did not see a need for sobriety tests.

But when he was asked to perform some, he agreed and proceeded to fail them. All of them. He was arrested for DUI.

Relations

A woman called police because a "friend" of hers found out that she was having an out of town visitor come and stay with her to attend a wedding. The jealous "friend" accused her of having relations with this person and proceeded to harass her with angry text and phone messages and drive by her house.

She knew this because he repeated things to her that only he could know by driving by the house. She told the officer that the man was becoming extremely angry. She said he threatened to hurt himself, her and her weekend guest. And while police were there he sent a text message that said, "truth herts..f em' good."

And after all the time the officer spent with her, she decided not to press charges but if he continued she would consider it.

Cooked goose

A Snee Farm man was feeding the geese behind his house when he heard a gun shot and then watched a goose fall over dead right before his eyes. He could not believe what he saw until he heard a second gun shot hitting another goose, which did not die. He followed the noise and saw a man standing with a rifle in his doorway.

He called the department of Natural Resources who told him to call police right away. He did and in the meantime went to confront the man who had scooped up the dead goose and did something with it.

He told the man he was angry at him for shooting the geese because he feeds them everyday in his back yard. The shooter became confrontational so the man left to avoid a scene. Police arrived and questioned the shooter who said he did not shoot and kill any geese what-so-ever but did say the geese were a nuisance and they should not be on the golf course because they make a mess everywhere. He then showed officers all the weapons he owns and said he only uses them at the range.

The man was uneasy and nervous and the witness was able to 110 percent identify him. He was issued a ticket for discharging a firearm within the town limits.

That's just mean

A man was awoken to the sound of someone yelling stop it. At first he thought it was his son calling to him in the night but then he followed the noise and went to the front porch. He found that his son's handicapped tricycle had been stolen. It was worth $250.

He did not have the serial number on hand but told the officers it would be hard to miss if someone was riding around on it.

(The Police Blotter is intended to be an informative and/or humorous column written from police reports obtained from the Mount Pleasant Police Department. Many of the stories come from the initial incident reports and, occasionally, supplemental reports. Generally, cases have not been adjudicated at the time of publication.