Nashville's Blotto Blotter: The Best And Worst Arrests From An Intoxicated Weekend, September 15-17

NASHVILLE, TN — After a gloomy few weeks fueled by hurricane leftovers, a summery September weekend drew folks out of their houses and, often, into the bars and honky-tonks of Nashville. And some folks, freed from their homes and empowered by the return of the sun may have had a little too much and some of the overserved engaged in often-embarrassing encounters with the Music City's Finest.

Here's a rundown of some of the more interesting booze-related arrests from the weekend of September 15 through 17. Names have been removed to protect the hungover.

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• One Vanderbilt student made two poor choices: he decided to get drunk six weeks before his 21st birthday and he refused help from campus police trying to usher him into his dorm, according to an arrest report. Early Friday morning, the 20-year-old, who turns the magical age of legal boozing at the end of October, "was found sitting on the sidewalk highly intoxicated on Vanderbilt Place at 24th Avenue South" and "was very uncooperative with VUPD officers who attempted to assist him, and could not say how much he had to drink, where he was drinking, and refused to identify himself." The student was charged with underage consumption and public intoxication. A Turkish citizen, he refused assistance from or contact with the Turkish consulate.
• A 35-year-old White Bluff man was hanging out at Play on Church Street Saturday and, perhaps, thought the dancing was dangerously hot. The man allegedly pulled the club's fire alarm and it wasn't even the first time he'd done it. Club staff told Metro Police the man had pulled the same stunt before and been warned if he did it again, they'd call the cops. Indeed he did and indeed they did. Asked why, the man told police he didn't know why he did except that he was being "drunk and stupid." He was charged with public intoxication and filing a false report. He was released on a $2,500 bond.
• A Michigan Man never gives up. Already kicked out of Lower Broadway's Honky Tonk Central for trying to sneak into "a secure area," a 27-year-old from Freeland, Mich. — using the traditional hand method of Michigan geolocation, Freeland is in the bend between the thumb and index finger — some how made it back inside the bar and "somehow gained access to an employee only area where he grabbed a case of beer," according to a police report. Our beer booster then busted on a sidewalk, dropping his pillaged pilsners (Honky Tonky Central staff "recovered the beer," thank heavens). He was arrested and charged with public intoxication, criminal trespass and theft under $1,000. He was released on a $5,000 bond.
• A Michigan Man cares about animal welfare. A 42-year-old from Columbus, Mich. — that's about halfway up the thumb using the aforementioned hand method — wandered over to the carriage drivers at Second and Broad Friday night and "inquired about the horses' welfare," according to an arrest report. Apparently dissatisfied with the answer he received, he then became "irate and belligerent" and struck one of the hansom cab drivers several times before walking away. Identified by bystanders, he was arrested and charged with assault and public intoxication. He was released on a $3,000 bond.
• Sometimes you have a few Strawberitas and a little pot and then you think your car exploded. It could happen to anybody, but it did happen to a 23-year-old Brentwood woman early Sunday. After a wreck on I-65, police found the woman sitting in her car unable to explain what had happened, except that she kept repeating her "car had blown up." Suspicious, officers asked the woman if she'd had anything to drink and she said she'd had one Strawberita, which, judging by the red liquid inside her car, officers deduced had spilled during the wreck. Once she was booked into jail, deputies found a glass pipe and grinder with marijuana residue, according to her arrest report. Charged with DUI, contraband in jail and possession of drug paraphernalia, the woman was released on a $6,500 bond.
• Given the choice between friends giving them a ride and going to jail, most people would choose the former. Not a 27-year-old Nashville woman, found by police with the normal signs of intoxication plus with "vomit was all over her clothing." When police arrived, she told them to "leave her alone," according to an arrest report, but then said she also "refused to leave" with her friends who offered to take her home, saying instead officers could "take her to jail." Largely unhappy with everybody involved, she called one of the people she was with "a little b----" and then one of the arresting officers a much more inflammatory gendered slur. She told the same officer that she was, in fact, "former law enforcement" and encouraged the police officer to "go ahead and try her." The woman was charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication and released on a $2,000 bond.

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