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The Great Pumpkin
Milledgeville Gazette
Police arrested Richard Torrance, a 27 year old
white male, resident of Milledgeville, Georgia in the Sanderson Pumpkin patch at
11:38pm Friday.
Torrance will be charged with lewd and lacivious behavior, public
indecency, and public intoxication at the County Courthouse Monday. The suspect allegedly
stated 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 here for miles. At
least I thought there wasn't." he stated in a phone interview from the County
Courthouse Jail.
Torrance went on to state that 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,
Torrance apparently failed to notice the Milledgeville Municipal police car
approaching and was unaware of his audience until officer Brenda Taylor approached him.
"It was an unusual situation, sure." said officer Taylor. "I walked up to
(Torrance ) and he's... just working away at
this pumpkin."
Taylor went on to describe what happened when she approached Torrance.
"I just went up and said, 'Excuse me sir, but do you realize that you
are screwing a pumpkin?' He got real surprised as you'd expect, and then looked me
straight in the face and said,
'A pumpkin? Damn... is it midnight already?"
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