Two people were arrested early Tuesday morning after police caught them on the roof of the Bexar County Courthouse.(from KSAT-12)
Police said someone noticed the couple on the roof around 4:15 a.m. and called authorities.
Police arrived and found a 23-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman on a landing of the roof.
Investigators believe they were planning to break into the building and said they used a fire escape to get on the roof.
Police said they would not be charged with trespassing but face charges of public intoxication.
What is so fascinating about the top of the Bexar County Courthouse that makes people want to climb up there? Why that pile and not the surrounding structures? Does it have something to do with defiance of authority specifically, or is it just a building that looks so interesting it must be climbed?
And why charge the two in this story with public intoxication but not trespassing? Do they actually need to break into the building (as the other dorks did back in October) before they can get charged with trespassing? They are on the roof, and they are obviously up to no good, so hit them with the trespass charge along with PI, or let them go free. The PI charge makes less sense as they are not so much in public and very much so on property where they are not supposed to be.
In any case, they should be more careful. And they should give more thought to where they seek to share moments alone, at least when they are a bit sloshed in the downtown area.
2 comments:
I'm thinking you need to investigate this further. Go downtown, get drunk, and then see if you have the urge to climb the courthouse.
I like your research methods. But I'm sure I will have to replicate the study several times just to get a good baseline.
Good science demands no less.
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