Every time taxi drivers pick up drunken downtown patrons, they know they could be in for a wild ride. One driver had a particularly crazy time Saturday.

According to a University Police report, during a traffic stop at River’s Crossing on Feb. 27 at 2:40 a.m., a police officer saw a Much Love Taxi pull into a parking lot and could hear the driver yell at her passengers. When the office approached the cab, there were three individuals in the back seat.

The officer also saw Roger Barry Leithead III, 20, who was “slumped over with his penis out of his pants and he was urinating inside of the taxi,” according to the  report.

“I do not remember that,” Leithead, who was visiting Athens for a friend’s birthday, told The Red & Black. “Even if I woke up to do that, I don’t know if I would remember it.”

Because of his state of intoxication, Leithead was transported to Athens Regional Medical Center.

“They said there were no life-threatening complications,” Leithead said. “They just gave me some pills and fluids.”

As police dealt with Leithead, they asked the other passengers, later identified as University students Connor Thomas Lynch, 20, Daniel Wayne Skelton, 20 and Kyle Wesley Pritchett, to wait on the sidewalk. Police reported Lynch and Pritchett urinated on themselves while they waited to be questioned.

Skelton was arrested and charged with  underage possession of alcohol and possession of a fake ID.

When police tried to search Lynch, he reportedly pulled out his cell phone and said he needed to call his parents. Despite being told several times to give his phone to police, Lynch refused. Police got the phone out of his hands, and he was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol and obstruction.

Although this visit to the Classic City didn’t end well for Leithead, he said he’ll be back.

“I think I probably over did it and was a little too excited,” Lei the ad said. “I love Athens, and I will probably go back. I wouldn’t like to get arrested again, though.”

Public intoxication

Be careful what you ask for, especially when you are asking to be breathalyzed while under the influence.

University student Jorvy Mammen, 31, was arrested and charged with public intoxication on Feb. 28 at 4:54 a.m. after behaving belligerently toward police and employees of The Grill, according to the Athens-Clarke County police report.

Police responded to the scene to give Mammen a criminal trespass warning and informed him he had been barred from the premises. The officer asked Mammen to leave and not harass anyone.

Five minutes later, the arresting officer reported seeing Mammen on the corner of Clayton Street and College Avenue yelling at three employees, “Your loss! You wont be getting any income from me for the next two years!”

Police arrested and charged Mammen with public intoxication. After repeatedly claiming not to be drunk and asking for a breath test to prove it, the arresting officer allowed Mammen to provide a breath sample. The alco-sensor gave a reading of .22 BAC, and Mammen was taken to jail.