Nobody likes being turned away at their local, but a group of drinkers in Brookville, Pennsylvania, reacted in an unconventional way last week – by throwing dead animals into the bar.
Customers of Bill’s Bar were shocked to see a former groundhog fly through the front door, before a grouse followed suit a few hours later.
Police chief Ken Dworek said the carcass tossers were ‘dissatisfied customers’, but he was not particularly surprised by the news – apparently this is common behaviour in Brookville.
“A guy will get in an argument and put a dead squirrel on his girlfriend’s doorknob, that kind of thing,” Mr Dworek told the Associated Press.
Three men – Paul Plyer, 26, and 19-year-olds Ryan Marshal and Tyler Hetrick – have since been charged with disorderly conduct.
They confessed to police they were angry, after the bar refused to serve one of the teenagers – you must be 21 to drink in the US.
So, after finding somewhere else to have a few beers, Plyer, Marshal and Hetrick returned to Bill’s to harass its staff and patrons with animal corpses.
Mr Dworek faxed a press release to AP on Friday, announcing the charges, but felt the need to give the unusual crime some context.
He scrawled at the top a description of Brookville, 70 miles northeast of Pittsburgh: “We don’t worry about being mugged or the victim of some drug dealer.
“In fact I don’t think we’ve EVER had a drive-by shooting.”
And in an interview with the Dubois Courier-Express on Friday, Mr Dworek lent further insight into the state of antics in Brookville.
He said: “We had one guy who printed his own mother’s obituary in the paper because he wanted to take the day off work, when she wasn’t even dead.
“Another one is, we had a guy so drunk he was giving mouth-to-mouth to a dead possum on the road.
“We just seem to run into that stuff up here and we get a kick out of it.”
Picture courtesy of wvholst via Flickr, with thanks
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