Police were called to a local bar because two men were fighting. It turns out they got good and drunk at and ran up a tab they couldn’t pay for.
The credit card they tried to use was denied so they had to call a friend to come and pay the tab.
But hours later the two men came back to the bar and ran up another tab. This time they didn’t stick around to try and settle up. They simply walked out.
The manager was hot on their tails and ended up arguing with the men outside the bar.
Because the men were so hammered when police got there, they got themselves arrested for Pubic Intoxication and were taken to the jail to sober up.

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Sobriety tests are hard
Late one evening an officer saw a car cruising around the Moultrie Plaza parking lot without any lights on, cutting across parking lanes.
He pulled the driver over who immediately put the car in park and staggered towards the officer.
The driver said right away that he had been drinking but was taking home some of his friends.
It turns out, however, that his friends should have been the ones driving him home.
The officer asked the man to complete three sobriety tests just to ensure it was safe for him to drive. He agreed and said he would do his best.
The officer began explaining the first task to the driver who almost fell over while standing there listening. The instructions didn’t quite matter because the man couldn’t walk a straight line anyway.
The officer then explained the one legged stand test and the man replied, “that’s going to be tough.”
And it was.
The last test involved the man saying his alphabet from B to K. He went right on past K and repeated a few letters along the way.
He was arrested for DUI at that point and put into the patrol car.
Then the officer spoke to the  passengers and searched the car.
There were two liquor drinks - one under the front seat and one hidden in the back seat.
Then the owner of the car, who was the front seat passenger told the officer she had been drinking and had her friend drive the car. She did not appear drunk but the officer called a cab to take her home anyway.
The passenger was taken to jail along with the driver for the open container.

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When the cat’s away
This next story is typical of a teenager whose parents go out of town.
However, the parents took precautionary measures and had an adult relative stay at the house.
It did not deter their young son from throwing a little house party as soon as his baby sitter went to sleep.
Amazingly enough, the baby sitter did not hear the loud noise and music coming from the garage while he slept.
But the neighbors did and they called police.
When officers arrived they could plainly see a group of teenage boys in the garage passing around a tobacco pipe.
Officers rang the door bell and a young boy answered. When an officer asked to speak to a resident of the home, the boy said he didn’t live there and that the resident had run up the road to pick up some hamburgers. He also admitted that the parents were out of town.
Seconds later the adult baby sitter came to the door and said he had been sleeping for the last hour and had no idea the boys had come over.
He invited the officers in the house and into the garage where the party was taking place. Officers confiscated a bottle of vodka, a case of beer and the tobacco pipe.
At this point the boys said another boy brought the alcohol but they didn’t know him too well and could only give his first name. However the boy was kind enough to leave the alcohol for them.
The moms of the other boys were called to the scene to pick up their kids. Officers counseled and warned them about their behavior and their choices.

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Speedy
An officer watched a car speed down I-526 toward Longpoint Road, going almost 80 mph. He finally caught up with the driver and pulled him over.
The man was obviously hammered but told the officer he was coming from North Charleston because he had to take two girls home who were too drunk to drive.
The officer asked him for his registration and he passed over it several times as he searched for it. He even took it out of the envelope, looked at it and put it back. The officer had to tell him which piece of paper it was.
And when the cop asked him how much he had to drink he said, “probably too much.”
 He went on to say he had about three or four drinks and three glasses of wine along with dinner.
He tried a couple of sobriety tests and didn’t do to well. At one point he told the officer he would rather the officer just find him a ride home. But since the police department is not a taxi service, the officer continued administering the sobriety tests. However the driver stopped and said, “you might as well just take me in.”
After he failed all the tests, the cop asked him one more time how much he had to drink. He told the officer, “a good bit a couple of hours ago. I probably should not have drove.”
 He was arrested for DUI and blew a .10%.

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Peeping Tom
A woman raced to the police department to report that she’d received a suspicious phone call from a man that woke her from a dead sleep.
The call was to her cell phone and the number was listed as private. The caller told  her she needed to listen to him and that if she did not cooperate she would regret it. But he told her, if she did cooperate, she would never hear from him again. She demanded to know who he was but he kept repeating that she needed to listen to him.
She said she got out of  bed and started to get dressed but he told her to get back into bed. She looked out her bedroom window, which overlooks her backyard and then ran to a second bedroom which overlooks the front of the house, but did not see anyone.
She said the man told her to put her pretty brown hair behind her shoulders, take her clothes off and masturbate for him.
At that point she grabbed her keys.
The caller told her to sit back down and demanded to know why she was being so complicated.
She hung up the phone, raced to her car and sped to the police station.
After giving her report to the police she asked that an officer escort her back to her house to make sure the man was not inside her home. She had no clues or any indication as to the identity of the man and requested extra patrols of the neighborhood.

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Two peas in a pod
A Police Blotter regular hooked up with one of her girlfriends recently for a night of drinking.
However, her friend couldn’t drive worth a darn because of the mixed drink she was balancing between her legs. She swerved in and out of her lane enough for a concerned citizen to call the police.
The girl drove off the road several times, ran into a trash can, but kept right on going.
Once police caught up to the car it was parked in a driveway and the two friends were staggering towards the house, hanging on to each other for support.
One carried the cup and the other carried the bottle.
The officer stopped the driver from going inside because she was obviously drunk. She reeked of booze, her clothes were disheveled and her hair was stringy, dirty and tangled.
She only admitted to drinking a couple of beers but the officer had her perform some field sobriety tests.
When he asked her if she had any injuries that would prevent her from doing some of the tasks she said ‘my boyfriend beat the ...out of me.’
But she thought she’d be able to complete the tests.
She didn’t do so good on any of the tests and was arrested for open container and DUI. Our Police Blotter regular gets very little mention this week because she managed to get off scott free.

(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. See more columns at www.moultrienews.com.)