Beer Blotter: Week of September 13, 2009
Don’t pour your beer on the chief
A 22-year-old man who got into a disagreement at the Irish Fest last weekend picked the wrong person to douse with beer.
It was Kansas City Police Chief Jim Corwin, wearing plainclothes and preparing to watch a band perform with his family about 7:35 p.m. Sunday.
“This is your unlucky day,” Corwin told the man while pulling out his police identification card. “You’re under arrest.”
According to Corwin, the man had asked to stand between Corwin and the stage to try to catch one of the free T-shirts being thrown from the stage. Corwin told him no because he was saving the space for a boy in a wheelchair who had gone to the restroom with his father.
After getting drenched, Corwin escorted the man to officers working at the festival at Crown Center. They cited Jesse H. Rizzo of Warrensburg, Mo., with disorderly conduct, a city ordinance violation. Rizzo, the son of Kansas City Star reporter Tony Rizzo, had to post $100 bond.
Officials: Man demands to drink beer before arrest
BAYOU GEORGE, Fla. – Authorities in the Florida Panhandle say they arrested a convenience store shoplifter who demanded to drink the 12-ounce beer he had stolen before being taken into custody.
The Bay County Sheriff’s office says the man told the deputy he had recently lost his job of 13 years and wanted to drink beer. The man became combative when the deputy wouldn’t let him finish it.
George R. Linthicum II was charged Wednesday with shoplifting, battery, possession of marijuana not more than 20 grams and smuggling contraband into a detention facility.
Bay County Jail officials said Thursday that Linthicum II was in jail and did not yet have an attorney.
