LOLOLOL!!! I can't help it!! You crack me up!!
All the TV cameras were following this plaid shirt guy, hoping for the money shot--you know, plaid shirt guy being busted by the cops charging through the window, plaid shirt guy being handcuffed while writhing about and still screaming, plaid shirt guy being dragged away by the cops & being tossed in the back of a cop car, purple faced & still screaming, maybe banging his head on the window of the cop car. Cue up "Bad boy bad boy whatcha gonna do....." TV loves those kind of shots.
You can bet if he did that, he would've gotten a whole lot more than a muni ticket. If he was in this county and the case was assigned to a certain ADA, the criminal complaint would've been a couple inches thick.