Naked, drunk ex-mayor found on side of road.

[Archae]

Ha! I beat Matcom to this story! :D

Dash-Cam Video Shows Former Ohio Mayor Naked
Tom Coyne In Betty Ford Center

UPDATED: 4:38 PM EDT August 17, 2004

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio -- Former Brook Park, Ohio, Mayor Tom Coyne is in the Betty Ford Clinic.

This comes after police released dash-cam video of him nude along a stretch of a road in North Olmsted Monday.

"I deeply regret that a personal issue has become so public," Coyne said in a written statement. "I accept full responsibility for my actions -- and offer my profound apologies to family and friends that I have saddened and disappointed by those actions." (Read Complete Statement)

Officers said Coyne, 54, was unresponsive when he was first found around 2 a.m.

When police questioned Coyne he said he thought he was at home in bed and his car was downstairs.

His blood-alcohol level was .274, which is about three times the legal limit allowed to drive in the state of Ohio, NewsChannel5 reported.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/3660404/detail.html

[matcom]

1. EXCELLENT!!

:D

:thumbsup:

[Archae]

4. Thank you, thank you...

(Bows)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. Isn't it considered wrong to be happy about someone else's tragedy?

[salvorhardin]

10. Ah, sweet schadenfreude! (n/t)

[Archae]

11. It's not a tragedy.

He got drunk off his ass, and passed out naked.

Wait a minute, yes, there is a tragedy there, but it's this ditwit's family who are living it.

[GOPisEvil]

2. .274? Dayam! That's beyond drunk!

[matcom]

3. shit. i can do that standing on my head

:D

[GOPisEvil]

5. Drink that much and you probably would be.

:bounce:

[Archae]

6. Yup.

It's falling-down-naked drunk. :beer: :-)

[underpants]

7. VOTE QUIMBY!

[Philostopher]

9. Huh. Wonder if he's related to this guy:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/07/17/loc_county_character_is.html

County character is back - with a new tank

He's accused of refusing to retreat from car show

By David Eck
Enquirer contributor

BATAVIA — Trouble seems to follow John Coyne.

Just months after finishing a 17-year prison sentence for shooting at youths looting his junkyard*, the Clermont County eccentric was back in a Clermont courtroom on Tuesday. This time, he's accused of refusing to move his 7-ton British Scorpion tank from a car show Sunday at Frisch's in New Richmond.

Mr. Coyne pleaded not guilty in Municipal Court to misdemeanor obstructing official business and criminal trespassing charges.

“I was doing nothing wrong,” he said. “Other people were not asked to leave. I'm a rugged individualist, and I'm exercising my theoretical constitutional guarantees. One of the those is the right to public access.”

Mr. Coyne, 59, and Clermont County authorities have a history dating back nearly 30 years. In the mid-1970s, a judge put Mr. Coyne in prison for contempt when he refused to remove a different tank, a Sherman, from his property near New Richmond.

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Oh, and *John Coyne didn't shoot the boys himself, if I remember correctly. He'd arranged some kind of tripwire that automatically fired a shotgun at them as they entered his property, and happened to get one of them in the head. I think that was why he went to jail -- they weren't all the way on the property yet, they were on his fence, and he wasn't even in sight of them when they were shot. In Ohio, you have to shoot them yourself or it's not considered sporting, I guess (cue banjos).

Before you get the wrong idea about him, he's kind of an anarchist -- rebels against all authority. Surprisingly, he's not a Republican, in other words. He's a fruitcake and, unfortunately, in many ways he's actually as much a left-wing fruitcake as a right-wing fruitcake.

[liberalitch]

12. You announce this like this is a bad thing....

....it's not.