Sleeping
Driver Thrown From Truck Window Survives
Is this the one exception where
forgetting to buckle up was the right move? Apparently, the negligence of a Dunkin' Donuts delivery driver that led to a
freakish accident in
the early morning hours in Narragansett potentially spared his life.
According to reports, the unbuckled
driver fell asleep at the wheel and flipped his truck, which skidded on its
side for about 100 feet.
It was at this time the man told police
he fell out of the passenger side window before the truck hit a utility pole,
snapping it in half. A preliminary accident investigation confirmed the man's
story, police said, and he only received non life-threatening injuries.
Man
Caught Doing Laundry Naked
Renters, ever encountered your neighbor
or tenant doing their laundry in the nude? Apparently one man, soon to be evicted from
an East Providence apartment complex, thought it was okay. According to
reports, neighbors complained of a naked man repeatedly washing his clothes in
the community laundry room.
The incident that drew most attention was
when a mother and her 10-year-old daughter walked in to find the man completely
naked. After officers knocked on his apartment door, he answered it only
wearing underwear, and explained the lack of clothes because he was
"putting stuff in the wash."
Failure
to Communicate? More Like Failure to Puke
A Cranston
Upon calls from neighbors, officers
responded to an area on reports of a man walking around with no shirt screaming
and yelling, and found the man at his girlfriend's apartment. At first, police
were able to quiet him down, and he then went to a convenience store around the
corner to get a bag of chips.
Once he rounded the corner, police said
he "began yelling and barking like a dog" to incite their reaction.
Walking back from the store, the man continued to yell and threw his bag of
potato chips to the ground. He continued swearing at police and ran inside his
girlfriend's house.
Police pried the man from the house after
a few minutes. En route to headquarters, the man reportedly tried to smash out
the rear window with his head, and then tried
to induce vomiting in the back of the car.
"He
slightly spit and gagged to vomit, however was unsuccessful," said an
officer.
Lying
911 Caller May Have Taken Too Many Drugs
According to reports, police went and
found no man with an automatic weapon, or the caller. Officers quickly located
the caller, who appeared unsteady on his feet and slurred his speech. The
caller claimed a man had threatened to kill him.
Officers asked him when this occurred,
and the caller said the threat had happened four months ago, and then admitted
he hadn't seen the man since.
During this alleged lie, a second officer
saw the man drop a baggie on the ground, which turned out to have nine pills in
it, two of which were identified as Clonazepam, a schedule three drug. The
caller was arrested and charged with providing a false 911 report and drug
possession.
Hello!
That's My Gun You're Touching
A Tiverton man who reportedly took
Vicodin, possibly Xanax and drank a six pack was overdosing late at night, and
police and rescue were called to assist. The man, in his stuper, ended up lunging at an officer and
putting his hand on the officer's gun.
Family members were concerned the man
ingested too many pills, and police tried to stand him up. That's when the man
reportedly fall into one of the officers, wrapping his hands around his waist.
After a brief struggle, the officer
claimed that "several times" he could feel the man's hand on his
firearm, causing him to turn rapidly to free loose. Other officers were
reportedly able to subdue the man, who was yelling and swearing.
Given concern for him, the man was
brought to the hospital and once he was secured, the man was released and
charged with assault and resisting arrest. He later admitted his substance
abuse issues to police.
Drunk,
Lethargic and Driving on a Flat Tire
If an officer suspecting you of drunk
driving asks you to step out of the vehicle, you probably don't want to a) be
unaware you have a flat fire and b) lose your basic motor skills. North Kingstown police pulled over a man reportedly swerving all over the
road, even into the opposite lane, while riding on a completely flat
tire.
According to reports, the man appeared to
be lethargic and told the officer he was returning from his work at a local
pub, and had been drinking that night. When asked to step out of the car, the
man reportedly stared at the door for 10 seconds before reaching over and
hitting it, but not opening it.
Eventually, he pulled himself together to
find the door handle, open it and almost fall down. Later, the man would
reportedly tell police he was unaware of the flat tire.
Teen
Gets 2 DUIs in Two Hours
Teens
and young adults, don't do anything you'd regret as you near graduation ...
especially this.
Upon speaking with the driver, officers
detected a strong odor of alcohol and marijuana from his breath, and then he
reportedly failed the field sobriety tests and had a difficult time maintaining
balance when on his feet. Police also found four sealed bottled of alcoholic
beverages in his trunk. This was at 11:06 p.m.
At
1:10 a.m., an officer on patrol heard the teen had been released and was
walking back to his vehicle at the CVS parking lot. The officer spotted the
vehicle leaving the parking lot at a high rate of speed, and swerving across
the road, so he pulled car over.
The
teen told the officer he was coming from a friend’s house in Newport
and was on his way home to Portsmouth
The
officer asked about his stop at the police station, and the man reportedly
answered, “oh yeah, well, yeah I was there too.” The teen admitted to making a
bad decision, but felt he was fine to drive. He took a preliminary breath test,
registered a .052 blood alcohol count and was charged again for DUI.