Chattanooga Pulse

• Sometimes after a long night of drinking, there’s nothing better than to find a comfortable place to sleep it off.  However, it is generally considered a bad idea if your choice of sleeping location is in the middle of the street.  Police were called out to Dartmouth Street on a report of a man sleeping in the road.  When they arrived, they woke the man, who told them he had been visiting a nearby woman when he got tired.  The woman told officers she had volunteered to keep an eye on him until he sobered up, but apparently lost track of his whereabouts.

• Consuming too much alcohol not only leads to poor sleeping decisions, it also can lead to poor companion decisions.  A visitor staying at a popular downtown hotel met two other men and invited them up to his room for some friendly imbibing.  However, he told police that he ended up drinking a bit too much and passed out.  When he woke up, the two men were gone—as was his laptop computer.  Nothing else was taken from the room, and he was able to give a good description of the two men, but no arrests have yet been made.

• While we’re listing the many ways overconsumption of alcohol can lead to bad things happening, we can’t forget the dangers of being assaulted.  An extremely intoxicated man called police and said a female friend had cut him inside a house on Camden Street.  When officers arrived, they found the man indeed had a cut in his leg.  When questioned, the woman informed the officers that it was her house and that the man had come over, very drunk, and wouldn’t leave.  So she took matters into hand—along with a brick, some chairs and a knife—and threw them at him to try and get him away from her.  The man was told to leave and no charges were filed in the incident.

• Self-defense by brick, chair and knife may work sometimes. Other times, something a bit more shocking is called for.  Luckily for a woman at an apartment complex on Mansion Circle, she had just the item needed to turn the tables on a pair of wannabe thieves.  The woman told police she had gotten out of her car to go inside when two men started asking her what she was doing, and even though she didn’t respond, they kept approaching her.  When one tried to grab her purse from behind, she spun around, pulled out a taser, and fired it into the man, sending him to the ground.  Both men fled immediately and police were unable to locate either of them after a search of the complex.