An intoxicated man was arrested outside of a Florida Olive Garden after eating pasta with his bare hands.
A person called the police and said the man was outside the restaurant in Naples asking customers for money and yelling obscenities, according to the Miami Herald. Officers headed to the restaurant at around 3:30 p.m. on April 7.
Just going to Olive Garden makes it at least two crimes. https://t.co/v0nYujP4Ic
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Police arrived to find 32-year-old Ben Padgett outside the Olive Garden on a bench, with no shirt, eating pasta with his hands, according to a police report obtained by the Herald. Police said the man smelled of alcohol.
The caller was Ronald Worst, a worker at the restaurant, who said that Padgett also entered the restaurant for a period of time. Padgett allegedly yelled threats that he would attack Worst and asked about his genitals.
Padgett was muttering obscenities when approached by police. They arrested the man, but first gave him a towel to wipe the pasta sauce off of his face.
In the patrol car Padgett kicked his legs out, twisted his body around, and smashed his head into the metal partition, according to the arrest affidavit obtained by the Herald.
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He was taken to a local hospital to treat a cut on his head from smashing around in the police car and then transported to jail.
Padgett was arrested for disorderly intoxication and also charged with resisting an officer without violence. He was released from Naples Jail Center on a $2,000 bond.
Man Claims to Have Army of Turtles
On that same day, a man in another part of Florida was arrested after screaming obscenities and threatening to send an army of turtles to destroy people. Police received at least seven calls from Starbucks Coffee, Surfanista Café, and Sassy Granny’s Smoothies in the coastal town of Indialantic, WKMG reported.
Thomas Devaney Lane, 61, accompanied an officer back to the police station, where he pounded on the walls and yelled at the dispatcher. He then left the building and was later discovered in the parking lot of a nearby 7-Eleven, Fox 35 reported.
Lane then called 911 in a police officer’s presence and told the operator that the officer “needed to leave now or you will all be sorry you [expletive] with the saint.”
TURTLE ARMY THREAT | A Florida man yelling obscenities, calling himself a saint and threatening to send his turtle army to destroy everyone has been arrested, according to police.
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The man continued to yell obscenities and talk about how his turtle army would destroy people, while police had to force him out of his car in order to perform the arrest. He is charged with “Resisting Officer without Violence” and for “Misuse 911 or E911 System.”
Woman Threatens JetBlue Employees
In January, a woman was caught on video yelling obscenities and threatening JetBlue workers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after she was not allowed to board a flight. She could be seen in a video pulling herself onto the counter at the boarding gate so she could yell in a staff member’s face.
JetBlue staff denied 26-year-old Sabrina Thomas boarding onto the flight because they observed she was intoxicated, Daily Mail reported. In response, she called them rapists and said she was armed with a gun. Police took her to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. She was visiting from California.
The video was recorded by the music manager Dre London.
“Everyone was in shock. Everyone said ‘Wow’ they’ve never seen nothing like this before in their life,” London told Inside Edition.
“On January 6, crew members at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport requested assistance from local law enforcement after a customer was denied boarding for indications of intoxication and became disruptive,” a spokesperson from JetBlue Corporate Communications told Yahoo Lifestyle.
