Police Called After Sleeping Man Blocks Restaurant Entrance, Police Say

Norristown police were dispatched to a restaurant where employees and patrons could not use the main entrance without having to step over a man who was sleeping there, say police.

Police left for a Church’s Chicken on the 200 block of West Main Street in Norristown on Sept. 21 around 9:30 a.m. to see about a person sleeping on the sidewalk there, according to a police report. 

Police noticed a man, who was later identified as John Pergolese, sleeping immediately in front of the restaurant’s main entrance in such a way that the restaurant’s patrons and employees had to step over him to enter the restaurant, say police.   

Police believed that Pergolese was creating a public nuisance and so woke him, gave him a citation, and released him, according to the report.