NAKED, HIGH COLLEGE KID DIVES INTO GARBAGE TRUCK

A naked college kid apparently high on PCP jumped into the hopper of a garbage truck and fought with cops trying to extract him. An officer spotted Benjamin Abele, a 22-year-old University of Georgia student, running naked on a downtown Athens street around 2:30 AM. The student then dove into the back of a city sanitation truck. Upon reaching the truck, the cop spotted Abele “laying in the contents of the hopper which consisted of bags of garbage and about six inches deep of dirty foul liquid seeping from the bags.” Officers subsequently struggled with the slick student, who sought to burrow into the hopper. Police – worried that Abele could get lodged in a space that they could not reach – succeeded in placing a handcuff on one of his wrists and began to yank him from the hopper. When Abele punched and kicked officers, a cop Tased the collegian “to little effect.” Abele was then pulled from the garbage truck, drenched in the slippery, malodorous liquid that had pooled inside the truck’s hopper, and was pinned to the ground by four officers. Since Abele was still “thrashing” and “fighting with abnormal strength,” he was Tased a second time. Abele was later transferred to an Athens hospital for treatment. Abele was charged Friday with obstruction of a law enforcement officer, a felony, and public indecency, a misdemeanor.
* Before we begin, has everybody got clear in their mind the dirty, foul, slippery malodorous liquid that seeped from the garbage bags and pooled inside the truck’s hopper?
* I’m picturing a hot dog street vendor’s tanks of tepid, cloudy water.
* Or the coffee in the radio station break room. Either one.
* Imagine that phone call: “Uh, hello, Dad?”
* Hey, who hasn’t been through this?
* Sounds like the University of Georgia has a new legend this morning.
* This is particularly painful for me because my college professors used to call my work garbage.
* I wish someone would study why really wasted people tend to strip down. With all the dumb studies you’d think someone would get to that.
* It’s like they’re so stoned they can’t stand the confinement of their clothes, right?