Drunk People Behaving Violently: Princeton Edition

by Dan Haley | September 12, 2008 at 12:24 pm

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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