Police arrested Tiffany Lynn Gaubert, a 22-year-old unaffiliated with the University of 170 Constant Drive in Thibodaux, for disturbing the peace by intoxication after receiving complaints of someone overturning a motorcycle at East Campus Apartments.
The owner told police Gaubert tipped the motorcycle. Gaubert denied toppling the motorcycle and blamed it on a squirrel.
Gaubert, who police later learned was drinking vodka and Dr Pepper, said she was trying to feed barbecue to the squirrel when it ran off and knocked the bike over, said Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSU Police Department spokesperson.
She then became hostile toward the officers and was arrested and issued a misdemeanor summons for disturbing the peace.
May 20th, 2010 at 7:06AM
That’s not a squirrel I’d want to encounter in a dark alley. And, um, probably not Ms. Gaubert, either.
May 20th, 2010 at 9:39AM
Vodka and Dr. Pepper? Yeah, that’s what it takes to try and feed BBQ to a nut-eating rodent. If it was actually eating the BBQ, then it wasn’t a squirrel….
May 21st, 2010 at 2:19AM
Ah, motorbike-toppling barbecue eaters, sciurid or not…
Our city has an annual motorbike rally. Some businesses court the visiting bikers, while others prefer to direct them away.
The latter doesn’t always work, but one restaurant found a way to politely and legally discourage bikers’ patronage: during the biker rally they display a prominent sign that reads, “Reminder: Bikes Are Not Dominoes.”
The bikers tend to park elsewhere.
(Also, if there is a University of 170 Constant Drive in Thibodaux, the diploma mill situation is getting seriously out of hand.)