Lady flashed her poetic chest when asked for name

A possible burglary in progress turned into a topless confrontation with a 31-year-old woman that ended in two arrests,. The apparent bare-breasted brouhaha began at about 2:30 a.m. on March 25 in Vero Beach after a neighbour called in a possible burglary. An Indian River County Sheriff's deputy approaching the residence heard what sounded like a disturbance along with glass breaking and two people yelling.

The investigator saw Susan Stickle, 31, and 44-year-old Eric Bachman on the porch. They looked intoxicated by drugs and booze and "clearly had no regard for the community in which they were located." The deputy separated Bachman and Stickle. Told to put her hands on a car, Stickle hugged Bachman and "yelled slurred expletives." When a deputy asked her name, Stickle yelled she had no ID and took off her shirt, revealing her bare chest.



On Stickle's chest is a tattoo listed as "Poem of dead tree," according to the Indian River County Sheriff's Office. It's unclear whether "Poem of dead tree" is an original composition or a published work by an established poet. It couldn't immediately be determined whether it's a haiku, sonnet, ode, couplet, ballad, epic or limerick or whether iambic pentameter is involved.

Meanwhile, Stickle got "irate" when instructed to put her shirt on and was taken into custody. Bachman refused to give a reason for being in the home and wouldn't "explain that he actually belonged on the property, which I later learned from a neighbor." Stickle, listed as homeless, and Bachman, whose listed address is in Chambersburg, Pa., each were arrested on disorderly conduct and resisting without violence charges.