Ice Cream Truck Driver Tosses Beer From Ice Cream Truck - Arrested

[matcom]

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New Berlin - It's not often you see anything but a Fudgsicle fly out the window of an ice cream truck, but when Denell Heller saw an unidentified object land in her front yard, she picked up the phone and called police.

I literally just called him on littering and he got busted on everything
else.

"I couldn't tell what it was, but I am just a freak about littering," she said. "I jumped off the couch and called the police. I told them I don't want him in my neighborhood if he's going to litter."

The object, it turned out, was an empty can of Steel Reserve malt liquor, and the offending ice cream truck driver had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, according to a New Berlin police report. The driver, 43-year-old David A. Blundell of Milwaukee, also is a registered sex offender. He was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and littering and has a hearing scheduled for today in Waukesha County Circuit Court.

"What an idiot," Heller said. "He's like a beacon with all this sound, and he's going to do that? I literally just called him on littering and he got busted on everything else."

The New Berlin ice cream escapade began Thursday when Heller, a cook for the New Berlin school district, was sitting in her Andrae Drive home watching through the picture window as the family dog romped in the front yard. When the neighborhood ice cream truck came down the street, she turned to her husband, Jeffrey, and remarked that the ice cream truck could use a new song to replace its unforgettable "Pop Goes the Weasel" tune.

But then the can flew out of the truck's window onto the Hellers' front yard. While she was on the phone with New Berlin police, her husband returned with the litter.

"I told the dispatcher, 'If you send someone over, I'll give you the can,' " Heller said.

Officer Gary Monreal tracked Blundell down a mile away on Deer Park Drive, where, according to a police report, Blundell told him that he had one beer with his breakfast around 11 a.m., about two hours before he went to work. Blundell then failed a series of sobriety tests, getting stuck at the letter M when reciting the alphabet, repeating the numbers nine and 10 when asked to count down from 15 and confusing his right and left when told to touch his nose with fingers on each hand, according to the police report.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/jun05/333477.asp

[Kellanved]

1. good to hear that it's called "new Berlin" for a reason

:toast:

[On the Road]

3. Beer at 11AM -- That's Berlin, All Right

although the Steel Reserve is a big strike against him.

[Kellanved]

4. that's 6PM Berlin time

:silly:

[tyedyeto]

2. field sobriety tests

confusing his right and left when told to touch his nose with fingers on each hand I have a hard time with that one when I'm sober. From being a leftie, I guess.

[Penndems]

5. A sex offender and drunk is driving an ice cream truck?!

Should I assume his employer didn't bother with doing a background investigation on him BEFORE this loser was hired?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. He should be thrown in the slammer by being DUMB alone

Seriously. If I tried to get so drunk I failed these "tests", I couldn't. I'd die of an OD before that.

"getting stuck at the letter M when reciting the alphabet, repeating the numbers nine and 10 when asked to count down from 15 and confusing his right and left when told to touch his nose with fingers on each hand"

[MindPilot]

7. so, since when is

a sex offender giving alcohol to a minor a crime?


Ok, on re-reading the post the beer can was empty, so I guess it really was just littering. Oh and the drunk sex offender driving an ice cream truck.

[underpants]

8. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!!

Steel Reserve??? :puke: