Coach arrested for peeing in public

By William R. Toler

A baseball coach was arrested for relieving himself in a patch of woods during a baseball game Wednesday according to NewsChannel 12.

Richard Duff was cuffed after Havelock police after somenoe with kids at a nearby park reported the incident. The Havelock Middle School coach was originally charged with indecent exposure, but that was later reduced to public urination which is not a crime….but a city ordinance.

I think the parent who got pissy should just get over it. Welcome to the south…we do that around here. When nature calls, it must be answered.

N.C. city orders Hanna curfew

By Corey Friedman

As a tropical storm tickled the North Carolina coastline, Havelock city leaders ordered residents to stay indoors, imposing a curfew from 11 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. this morning, the Sun Journal reported.

Mayor Jimmy Sanders declared a state of emergency and signed a curfew order at the police chief’s request as Tropical Storm Hanna made landfall in eastern North Carolina. Chief G. Wayne Cyrus had asked for the curfew not to protect citizens from fearsome weather, but to keep drunks from enjoying the storm.

“[T]he last time they had some problems, primarily with the bars not wanting to voluntarily close and having lots of people out in the streets,” Sanders told the newspaper. “Having people out in the middle of a storm is one thing, but having people out in the middle of the storm under the influence of alcohol is probably not a good mix.”

Hanna danced through the region with little consequence, spraying the parched landscape with much-needed rain and tossing a few tree limbs about. The strongest wind gusts were about 50 mph in New Bern, which implies that sustained winds were lower.