Teh One Who Knocks
03-01-2011, 04:43 PM
By Clifford Ward - The Chicago Tribune
A man who complained he was being ignored captured the attention of police recently not only by running naked through a restaurant parking lot in Kane County but by demanding to know about the dedication of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler.
A Kane County sheriff’s deputy reported that she spotted the man about 5:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at Sorrento’s restaurant on Illinois Route 64 in Maple Park.
The man was yelling obscenities and threats, according to the report, but he also interspersed his shouts with other topics.
“Do you think Jay Cutler gave up?” he reportedly shouted, in apparent reference to the quarterback sitting out about half of the NFC championship game with a knee injury.
He also asked the officer whether she believed in God.
The officer said she took the 40-year-old man from Big Rock by the arm in an attempt to get him in her car, but he hit her in the throat with his free hand. She then tackled him and sat on the man while another officer put him in restraints, according to the report.
The officer was treated for bruises at a nearby hospital, the report said. The man, who was charged with aggravated battery, was also taken there for evaluation, police said Monday.
While at the hospital, the officer talked to the suspect, who told her he made a scene in the parking lot “because no one listens to him and he thought it would get everyone’s attention,” she wrote in her report.
An argument with a family member may have provoked the incident, police said.
A man who complained he was being ignored captured the attention of police recently not only by running naked through a restaurant parking lot in Kane County but by demanding to know about the dedication of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler.
A Kane County sheriff’s deputy reported that she spotted the man about 5:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at Sorrento’s restaurant on Illinois Route 64 in Maple Park.
The man was yelling obscenities and threats, according to the report, but he also interspersed his shouts with other topics.
“Do you think Jay Cutler gave up?” he reportedly shouted, in apparent reference to the quarterback sitting out about half of the NFC championship game with a knee injury.
He also asked the officer whether she believed in God.
The officer said she took the 40-year-old man from Big Rock by the arm in an attempt to get him in her car, but he hit her in the throat with his free hand. She then tackled him and sat on the man while another officer put him in restraints, according to the report.
The officer was treated for bruises at a nearby hospital, the report said. The man, who was charged with aggravated battery, was also taken there for evaluation, police said Monday.
While at the hospital, the officer talked to the suspect, who told her he made a scene in the parking lot “because no one listens to him and he thought it would get everyone’s attention,” she wrote in her report.
An argument with a family member may have provoked the incident, police said.