Right to Privacy?

Man Drinking Beer In Ditch Just Wanted to Be Left Alone

HOUSTON — A police standoff with a man in a southwest Houston drainage
ditch ended peacefully Monday morning. Firefighters were called around
2 a.m. on a report that a man was drowning in a drainage ditch.

When they arrived, they found the man was
fine and drinking a beer, but he refused to get out of the 20-foot deep
ditch.

Police arrived at the scene and tried to coax
the man out of the ditch for the next two hours. He threw beer bottles
and other glass objects at officers, police said, in an effort to be
left alone. He was taken into custody, and then transported to Ben
Taub Hospital
for evaluation.

from
Click2Houston.com