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08/05/2013 at 15:52 • Filed to: None
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"AbigGRNboot" (AbigGRNboot)
08/05/2013 at 15:52 • Filed to: None | 3
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Drunk, Naked, and driving a stolen Bobcat. Someone's weekend was more exciting than mine.
Stealing a pair of pants apparently wasn’t an option.
A 19-year-old man is charged with stealing a Bobcat front loader from a Halls landscaping nursery early Sunday morning and drunkenly attempting to drive it home.
The suspect, Joseph Michael Hall, had a perfectly good explanation for it all, though, when authorities caught up to him rolling along Maynardville Highway shortly after 7 a.m. — he was naked.
“Mr. Hall stated that he was drunk and that he was trying to hide his nudity by taking the Bobcat,” the arrest warrant states.
The Bobcat was taken from Out on a Limb Nursery, 6641 Maynardville Highway. Authorities initially were alerted when an E-911 caller reported that someone had smashed the Bobcat through a chain-link fence at the nursery and had driven away with it.
Hall was arrested less than a mile away on Mynatt Road at Maynardville Highway, a few blocks from his residence. The nursery’s owner was called to the scene to retrieve the front loader.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the teen lost his clothes.
Hall was being held Sunday afternoon at the Knox County Detention Facility in lieu of $6,250 total bonds on charges of felony theft, public intoxication, underage consumption, misdemeanor vandalism and indecent exposure.
He has prior convictions in Knox County for DUI and assault.