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Fraternity brothers charged with obstruction for hiding streakers (w/report)
Issue date: 6/23/09 Section: News
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An Athens-Clarke County officer saw a man running toward the fraternity house, followed by another, police said. The officer chased the men and ordered them to stop, according to a police report, which noted "the most noticeable feature was lack of clothing."
According to the report, Andrew Wilson McCauley, 21, held the door for the two naked men and let it slam shut. The door has a keypad lock on it and locks as soon as it shuts, the report said. "McCauley stood at the door with a half smile and I told him to open the door. He shrugged his shoulders," the report states.
The door was not unlocked for the officer until Edward Morrissette Bolt, 22, unlocked it, the report stated. "He stood in the way and refused to move as I again told him to move. He told me I could not come in," the report said.
Both McCauley and Bolt were arrested and charged with obstructing a law enforcement officer for allegedly refusing to ID the streakers. McCauley was charged with battery of a law enforcement officer for allegedly grabbing the officer's upper right arm and pulling at him, according the report.
The two naked men the officer was chasing "had disappeared into the house and would have had plenty of time to get dressed, everyone claimed to not have any idea who the two naked men were," the report states.
If found, the two men face public indecency and obstruction charges.
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Wha???
posted 6/23/09 @ 8:25 AM EST
I kinda get why McCauley is arrested but why is Bolt also arrested? Didn't he tell McCauley to unlock the door? If it's just for not identifying the streakers, then shouldn't the whole house be arrested since nobody spoke up?
And a battery charge for "grabbing and pushing" a police officer? They're not royalty. (Continued…)
CoastalDawg
posted 6/23/09 @ 9:33 AM EST
I think the police were so embarrassed at being outrun by two naked guys that they made charges to somehow redeem their lack of fitness in the chase. So the naked guys get off and the guys in the house go to jail? Time was when freshmen @ UGA had an "underwear" run which, although the participants were not totally naked, went from Sanford Stadium through downtown and even through the Georgia Theater. (Continued…)
erudite recondite eremite
posted 6/23/09 @ 11:35 AM EST
That is so 1970s! Or was this intended as an historical re-enactment? Will they use an airplane next??
"Streakers biked across campus at the University of South Carolina, and at the University of Georgia streakers parachuted out of airplanes. (Continued…)
Haha
posted 6/23/09 @ 1:13 PM EST
Hey Red and Black, way to post the story several days after every other news source in georgia picked it up. I'm glad you felt it necessary to put such a blown out of proportion story out there when it's already old news. (Continued…)
umorons
posted 6/23/09 @ 1:14 PM EST
What idiots. I think that your naked buddies deserve to be paddled for getting you sent to jail.
bluto
posted 6/23/09 @ 1:32 PM EST
I dunno,
It looks like Porky's meets Animal House.
These guys are DEFINITELY frat boys.
giggle
posted 6/23/09 @ 2:32 PM EST
That frat's name sounds like "Baked Potato Pie!"
wow
posted 6/23/09 @ 5:46 PM EST
go read the comments on the WSB news website article. the rest of georgia thinks this is ridiculous too. don't encourage red and black.
Natalie
posted 6/24/09 @ 12:51 PM EST
GIVE ME A BREAK....the police need to worry about more important things going on in Athens at night than streakers...once they ran into the house they should have let it go. (Continued…)
CaptainCaveman
posted 6/24/09 @ 2:18 PM EST
if they had stolen a flatscreen tv, the cops would've never caught 'em.
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