This was in the Calgary Sun ... the title of the article was
"Best Comeback Line Ever."
In summary, the police arrested Ward Branham, a 22-year-old white male,
resident of Lethbridge, Alberta, in a pumpkin patch at 11:38 p.m. on Friday.
Ward will be charged with lewd and lascivious behaviour, public indecency,
and public intoxication at the Calgary courthouse on Monday.
The suspect explained that as he was passing a pumpkin patch, he decided to stop.
"You know, a pumpkin is soft and squishy inside, and there was no one around for miles. At least I thought there wasn't," he stated in a phone interview.
Ward went on to say he pulled over to the side of the road, picked out a
pumpkin that he felt was appropriate to his purposes, cut a hole in it and proceeded to satisfy his alleged "need"
"I guess I was just really into it, you know?" he commented with evident embarrassment. In the process,
Ward apparently failed to notice a police car approaching and was unaware of his audience until officer Brin
Taylor approached him.
It was an unusual situation, that's for sure," said officer Taylor. I walked up to (Ward) and he's...just
working away at this pumpkin.
"Taylor went on to describe what happened when she approached Ward. I just went up and said, "Excuse
me sir, but do you realize that you are screwing a pumpkin?"
He froze and was clearly very surprised that I was there, and then looked me straight in the face and said,
A pumpkin? Damn...is it midnight already?"
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