Man calls 911 after passing out 'in some dude's car'

An Elyria man called 911 for a ride home, but what he got was a ride straight to jail. Officers with the Lorain County Sheriff's Department say 34-year-old William Hale started his Monday night drinking with a friend in Strongsville. By early Tuesday morning, Hale found himself in a tricky situation and placed a call to 911.



According to the call transcript, Hale told the operator, "I fell asleep in some dude's car. I was drunk, and now i'm trying to get home." Hale made the call from Route 82, as he walked for several miles down the busy two-lane road, from Strongsville to Columbia Township. Hale told the operator he tried to call a cab, and at one point, he even got emotional.

"I got money, I got 200 bucks in my pocket, but I don't want to sit on the side of the road," Hale says in the 911 call, as he sobs. Hale dialed 911 two more times before deputies found him along the side of the road in Clolumbia Township. Officers say he was so intoxicated he could hardly stand on his own.

 

"Basically he said that if we didn't take him home, he wasn't going to make his 9:00 curfew, and the officers had to explain to him that it was already 6 a.m.," says Sgt. Heath Tester with the Lorain County Sheriff's Department. Deputies arrested Hale for disorderly conduct and improper use of 911.He is being held at the Lorain County jail.