Intoxicated Man Found at Wendy's, Admits to Taking 32 Cold Medicine Tablets

An intoxicated man found in a Wendy's parking lot in Lawrenceville admitted to police that he had taken 32 cold medicine tablets in order to get high.

According to the Lawrenceville Police report, police saw the man, 26, stumbling outside the 200 S. Clayton St. restaurant around 4:50 a.m. one Tuesday earlier this month.

The officer asked him where he was going, to which the man said he wasn't going anywhere. His speech was slurred and thick, and he seemed confused and unable to think clearly, the officer wrote in the report. He had a scratch on his face because he had fallen earlier, too.

He told the officer that he was homeless and had no place to stay. At one point, he added that he owed his probation officer $600 but didn't have the money.

The officer administered an Alco-senor test, but received a zero reading. The man told the officer that he had taken 32 Coricidin tablets, a decongestant medicine, so that he could get high.

"Due to his very impaired state, his inability to care for himself, his inability to advice of anyone that could care for him, and to prevent him from hurting himself or getting run over, I placed him under arrest for public intoxication," according to the report.

He then was transported to jail.