Man arrested for urinating in public tells police he is a weapon

A 38-year-old St. Louis man was arrested Tuesday, accused of urinating in front of themt. Pleasant Bennigan’s. During his arrest, the apparently intoxicated man told an officer that he didn’t have a weapon ... he is a weapon.

Officers from themt. Pleasant Police Department were called to the restaurant, at 2424 S. Mission St., at approximately 4:27 p.m. Tuesday for a disorderly man, according to a police report about the incident. The man left before police arrived in a grey Ford Flex.

One officer pulled the vehicle over at the intersection of Mission and Broadway, while another officer went to Bennigan’s to talk to witnesses.

The manager told the officer that she’d heard the man, who’d come in for a takeout order, get loud with the bartender before leaving. The bartender told police that the man was normal at first, but then started yelling about the union Army before screaming, “That motherf--ker.” He also seemed intoxicated.

The man walked out, andthe bartender told police that it appeared that he was drinking a beer at the car.

After he walked out, however, the manager told police that she witnessed him walk into the grass and began to urinate onthe ground. She told police that she saw everything clearly andwas relieved that a server was slow to seat patrons at a table with full view of the man. He then walked to the car and started drinking beer from a tallboy.

He got into the Ford Flex, which drove off.

At the traffic stop, the man initially told the other officer that he was clueless about the incident.

When the officer told him that he’d look at surveillance footage, theman said hemight have needed to use the toilet.

The officer asked theman to get out of the car, the report said. The man did so reluctantly, smelling of alcohol. The officer asked him if he had any weapons and if he could pat down his pockets, theman indicated that hemight have a weapon and put his. hands in his pockets. He immediately pulled his left h and out, and didn’t have a weapon in it, the report said. The officer put his hand over the man’s right hand, and theman objected to which the officer said he was concerned that the man had a weapon.

The man clarified that he didn’t have a weapon, but that with his prior military special forces training that he is a weapon.

He was arrested for indecent exposure.