Posted on 11/18/2009 1:30:19 PM PST by iowamark
Police arrested a mail carrier after she was found drunk inside a residence while on the job in Marion earlier this month, authorities said Tuesday.
Kristine A. Pflughaupt, 46, of Marion, was charged with public intoxication Nov. 3 after she was found sitting on the kitchen floor of a house at 260 Sixth Avenue, eating leftover noodles from Marie O’Kelly’s refrigerator.
Marion police Lt. Steve Etzel said Pflughaupt entered the home through an unlocked front door. She apparently was intoxicated when she was dropped off to complete her route, he said.
“She was in uniform and had mail and a mail-carrying bag with her,” Etzel said.
O’Kelly, 95, said she was watching TV in another room when she heard a noise. She thought her daughter had arrived, but became suspicious when no one came to greet her.
When she went to check, O’Kelly said she found Pflughaupt sitting on her kitchen floor. She was using her hands to eat leftover noodles, and they were running down Pflughaupt’s shirt. O’Kelly didn’t recognize her as the mail carrier.
“I said, ‘What are you doing here?’ and she didn’t answer me,” O’Kelly said. “She just kept eating those noodles.”
Police and firefighters arrived around 4:45 p.m. and Pflughaupt was arrested. Preliminary breath tests showed her blood alcohol content to be .281, police said.
Pflughaupt, a 17-year employee of the U.S. Postal Service, was taken to the Linn County Jail. Marion Postmaster Rick Leyendecker said Pflughaupt is currently on unpaid leave. The incident happened his second day as Postmaster.
Any disciplinary action will be determined after police finish their criminal investigation, Leyendecker said.
“I just have to let the investigation run its course,” Leyendecker said.
O’Kelly said she was shook up, but was not injured in the incident.
“It was a shocker, is what it was,” O’Kelly said.
According to online court records, Pflughaupt has three convictions for operating while intoxicated, including one just three months ago. Her prison sentence was suspended in that incident.
Woah. That's pretty seriously polluted. She probably remembers none of it.
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat of day nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift consumption of their ordered rounds of drinks”
If that is a purposeful misspelling, its a good one!
pure luck.. it could have come out hoeowners :-o
Thirty lashes with a wet noodle!
Watch the union get her a promotion.
Wasn’t Obamateur looking for a Postmaster General? This creature would fit in well with the rest of his primate cabinet.
Several months ago, my husband and I stopped at a convenience store for some Gatorade. He ran inside, I stayed in the car. A mailman wearing full USPS uniform came out of the store carrying a case of Milwaukee’s Best, and a large can in a paper bag. He got into his car, popped open the beer in the bag and chugged it. I always wondered if he was on duty, thank goodness I didn’t recognize him as our mailman!
sound like burglary to me. at least in new york state it would be.
Sounds like they picked the lightest charge they could.
“She put carbs in her belly”
Said Mrs. O’Kelly.
“A sight to be seen”
Said Mrs. McBean.
“Was it vodka or gin?”
Asked Mrs. O’Flynn.
“Did ye all get your mail?”
Said Officer McHale.
You`d think a mail carrier could afford someting a little
better than Milwaukee`s Best.
That stuff is swill.
He was driving a very old beat-up El Camino. The whole scene was so bizarre, I wish I’d had a camera!
Yeah but you can take the cans to MIchigan for a $0.10 deposit PER CAN!!!
criminal court charges will probably be dismissed or plead out to basically nothing.
Illegal tresspass and Public Intoxication while on probation.
The burglary of some noodles would only result in a small claims court case.
...and she will become a legend at the Marion Post Office.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAKEedAuybQ&feature=PlayList&p=A8ABA79E4DF33EAA&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=54
Cliff Claven and Personality Lessons
It can be the longest nightmare anybody would live through.
I hope this gal gets some help.
Yep, that certain ‘set’ to the mouth and the half-closed eyes . . . funny how most lesbos have that same ‘look’, but I swear that they do! My lesbo mail carrier scares the hell out of me . . . hair spiked on top, with a mullet in dreds below LOL
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