Drunken Man Enters Wrong House and Bed: Cops

[steven johnson]

There have been cases of sleepwalking where someone ended up in the wrong house and bed.
It's best if you sleepwalk into someone's house who is not armed, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalking

A Stratford man ended a night of drinking by wandering into a neighbor's home, stripping off his clothes and falling asleep in a 6-year-old's bed, police said.

Early Sunday, the 6-year-old woke up and told his parents that a man was asleep in his bed.

That man was Teddy Brisseaux, 26, who lives a block away, police said. When police arrived, the residents were screaming for help from a second-floor window.

Brisseaux's clothes, which smelled of urine and alcohol, had been dropped on the floor, police said.

Brisseaux said he’d been drinking but denied he was in the wrong house, police said.

He was charged with burglary and disorderly conduct, released on bond and is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 1.



Drunken Man Enters Wrong House and Bed: Cops

[Swede]

1. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the,uh, town.

:rofl:

[MilesColtrane]

2. The investigation is being conducted by the Sherwood Schwartz division of Scotland Yard.

[proteus_lives]

3. That guy needs jail and help.

He's lucky the parents didn't kill him.

[newcriminal]

5. He needs help I agree, but why jail time?

[proteus_lives]

7. Because he broke the law.

B/E.

[newcriminal]

10. You don't always do (or need) jail time for breaking the law.

[MajorChode]

13. The guy needs jail time to convince him not to do it again

or at least give him some sort of incentive not to do it again.

Forget the strong possibility that he's traumatized a 6 yr old kid, and consider what could reasonably happen if he does this again. Someone could blow his dumb ass into purgatory and few would blame them.

[newcriminal]

14. To be convicted of burglary,

they would have to prove he entered the house to burglarize it. He didn't. The other charge is just a summary offense, not even a crime. He should have to go to rehab not jail.

[Ptah]

16. Breaking and Entering is a crime.

Burglary is not a component.

[newcriminal]

17. He was charged with burglary and disorderly conduct.

The burglary will not stick and the disorderly conduct will not give him jail time.

[Ptah]

18. My mistake.

:blush:

[MajorChode]

19. No, burglary is just illegally entering a home or business

It doesn't mean theft must occur or even that a person intended to steal anything. Many jurisdictions have replaced the charge of breaking and entering and now file them under the larger umbrella of burglary. Do you honestly think someone can waltz into a stranger's home in the middle of the night and that's NOT a crime?

Lots of people need to rehabilitate themselves. That doesn't mean the state is responsible for giving it to them everytime they fuck up, and for some people rehab is a waste of time. Some people just need to be held responsible for their actions.

[Nevernose]

21. No, burglary is comiting a felony while on another's property.

And at least in my state, and most good PDs can get rid of the charge. It's a bullshit add-on these days, a tool for investigators to get a confession or at least a plea bargain.

I will add that I wouldn't have done that in the worst of times, no matter how fucked up, and anybody who would probably needs to go to jail. But what if there was a mental illness in play? And the statistics for rehab, by the way, are identical regardless of motivation. A person ordered to rehab is just as likely to get sober as a person who "hits rock bottom." Then there's the difference between a first-time offender and a multiple offender... what I'm saying is that life is more complicated than "broke a law = lock him up."

[MajorChode]

22. Pennsylvania statute:

§ 3502. Burglary.
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of burglary if he
enters a building or occupied structure, or separately secured
or occupied portion thereof, with intent to commit a crime
therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public
or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.

There may be all sorts of mitigating factors and one can play 'what-if' all day long. However the simplest and most likely explanation is...

Dipshit got drunk

Dipshit entered wrong house

Dipshit took off clothes and passed out in wrong bed

[newcriminal]

23. "with intent to commit a crime" no intent, no crime.

burglary won't stick just like I said before.

[MajorChode]

24. What you said before...

To be convicted of burglary, they would have to prove he entered the house to burglarize it. He didn't. The other charge is just a summary offense, not even a crime. He should have to go to rehab not jail.

Do you still think they have to prove "he entered the house to burglarize it"?

[newcriminal]

25. They have to prove he intended on committing a crime.

Since he was charged with burglary I said burglarize. The point is still valid. No crime.

[Beer on a stick]

4. Is the president of the Robert Downey, Jr. fanclub?

[NNadir]

6. My step-brother got arrested that way...

Actually, when sober, he was a hell of a nice guy, kind, generous, good to his mother (my step-mother), good to me, my wife, my kids.

He dried out for many years, and then married a woman he met in AA.

She fell off the wagon. After a struggle he went down with her.

(Actually she was a real piece of shit, even sober.)

My step-brother was killed in an automobile accident, thankfully a one car collision, killing no one but himself.

My step brother's wife got all of his stuff, his money, his house, which she surely drank up by now. She was drunk as a skunk at the funeral. I despise her.

[BlueJazz]

8. Damn.... charged with burglary ??? I don't know..That's a little harsh.

I mean...he didn't try to steal anything or hurt anybody....just fell asleep drunk.

Some fairly long Community Service or something like that but Burglary ??

Christ...that shit carries 5 to 15 years. Fucking ridiculous.

[PassingFair]

9. My mother found a guy asleep in the back seat of her car one morning...

she came back in the house SERIOUSLY freaked out.

My dad went out and tapped on the window:

"Excuse me, sir, but my wife has to go to
work now."

The wastrel said, "Isn't this Tom's car?"

He toddled off down the street and we all
had a good snicker.

I think this is a little WORSE, though.
I would REALLY freak out if I found a
random person in my kid's bed.

A sincere apology would suffice, though.

[NJmaverick]

11. and that's why one should lock one's door before going to bed

[SKKY]

12. Oh come on people!!! Who HASN'T done that a time or two in their lives???

[fNord]

15. Something like that happened to me once.......

I was about 16, and on acid.

I didn't get cough, thankfully. and I never removed my clothes. it was in a suburban neighborhood, and every 4th house was the same.

After about an hour, it occurred to me that "this isn't my room......either this shit is really good...or I made a big mistake......" I quickly left and realized I was one street up from mine.

after that, I decided not to go home till it wore off, just in case.

[LostInAnomie]

20. My sister used to poop in the clothes basket when she would walk in her sleep.

Now the world knows your business, Rachel!

[sasquatch]

26. I see Father McTouchy had a little too much to drink

[Orsino]

27. That's his puddle, and he's sticking to it.

:puke: