Drunk People Behaving Violently: Princeton Edition
I’ve long promulgated the “It’s not my fault, I was blacked out” argument. Princeton’s Thomas Kneeland might want to see if he can legally invoke this.
Kneeland, ‘10, was arrested last Friday and charged with felony assault after struggling with authorities and generally refusing to go to the hospital to have his drunkenness treated. The drama started at 11:40 pm, when campus police were called to Foulke Hall to help university first aid crews contain the belligerent Kneeland. What happened next is reported by the Star-Ledger:
Authorities were trying to take student Thomas Kneeland, 20, to a hospital, but he refused and allegedly unleashed an obscenity-laden struggle that included flailing and kicking and at one point hiding under his bed, police said.
During the struggle, Kneeland allegedly struck borough Patrol Officer James Dodd, police said.
Hiding under the bed, a classic if overused drunk escape maneuver. Kneeland reportedly continued to wreak havoc at the hospital, trying to bite a nurse and then grabbing her hand and “twist[ing] it very hard.” The nurse did not require medical attention.
Kneeland now faces felony assault charges for the attacks against Officer James Dodd and the nurse.
And so concludes another chapter of “Reasons to Not Drink Excessively.”
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September 12th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I’m a Wanna Be who never took advantage of an Ivy education. If I had to do my life overagain I would have gone to Princeton. I HATE the underside of princeton blog because Armory probably would have tried the stunt like s/he is pulling but F. Scott Fitzgerald wouldn’t have let him…….F. Scott adored his years at Princeton (as do all the students). The other Ivy’s go to other places and promptly realise that their organization could give two cents for the undergraduate group – THAT’S the distinguishing feature. Princeton University is the last Ivy League institution that genuinely invests in its undergraduate EDUCATION (not matriculation)………..I can’t imagine having an opportunity to go there and degradating the very place that will inevitably be the best thing that blogger will ever do for him/herself –
As a blogger, though, you’ve got to admit s/he has the formula down cold. Too bad it adds up in the negative for one of the world’s last great higher learning centers.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
This is a pretty terrible post…and if you are going to do stupid things like write about kids who get drunk and do stupid things, why didn’t you write about another junior who, in her inebriated state, punched a nurse and was subsequently arrested?
September 13th, 2008 at 1:55 am
I’ve never been prouder of my little brother. <3
September 13th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
False.
September 13th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Felony Assault? Really?
For flailing about and hiding under a bed, and hurting a nurse to the extent that she didn’t need treatment at all.
So we are really suggesting that the correct response to man in his very early twenties getting a little bit too drunk and needing to be restrained is 2.5 years in prison, a $10,000 fine, never being able to vote nor serve on a jury?
Of course I think my little Cousin is a Republican so taking away his right to vote could be a positive but the rest is just overboard. I just hope this is the opening bid in the hope of getting him to plead to causing a public disturbance.