Bet he had some major Sunday scaries the next day…
A man was arrested this past weekend for allegedly urinating off the balcony – and onto a security guard – of a popular downtown Nashville bar.
The disgusting incident happened at Barstool Nashville, which is about a block off Broadway and located on 2nd Avenue. According to WSMV, police say officers were called to the bar in the early hours of Sunday morning, where security had detained 21-year-old Kellen Fraile for peeing off of their second floor balcony.
Apparently, there was a poor security guard working the front door below when Fraile decided he couldn’t hold it any longer who got hit with the stream, and a female employee who reported seeing the man expose himself and start peeing.
Police said that Fraile was “visibly intoxicated” (I would hope he wasn’t sober during all this…) and could barely speak.
He was ultimately taken to the Davidson County Downtown Detention Center, where he was charged with public indecency and public intoxication. Both are misdemeanors, with public indecency carrying a fine of $500 and public intoxication carrying a maximum of 30 days in jail and a fine of up to $50.
I’ve gotta say though, if I were that security guard who got pissed on, I’d probably be pressing for more charges…or at least asking for a raise from the bar. That’s just insane to have to deal with.
Unfortunately it’s not the first time we’ve seen incidents like this happen on Broadway: A couple years ago, a man was arrested for urinating on a hot dog vendor from the rooftop of Jason Aldean’s downtown Nashville bar. The charges in that case were ultimately dismissed.
It’s an unfortunate side effect of having a strip of bars like Broadway where everybody comes to seemingly just get as drunk as possible, thinking there aren’t any consequences. I don’t want to compare it to Bourbon Street in New Orleans, but it seems like tourists think anything goes on Broadway like they do in the Big Easy – whether that’s puking on the sidewalk or peeing off a balcony.
And I know I’m the old man yelling at the cloud at this point, but it’s sad to see that the focus of Broadway has largely been taken off the live music that’s playing in every bar and is instead on trying to get as blacked out as possible. What ever happened to coming to Nashville to hear country music and have a few drinks? I guess in the days of these massive nightclub-style venues, this is just what Broadway has become now…
But please, for the love of God, if you come to Nashville, don’t get so drunk that you pee off a balcony (or throw a chair off of one…). What happens in Nashville can follow you home – and as we’ve unfortunately seen before, getting too drunk after a night of partying can unfortunately end up much worse than a trip to jail too.
Be safe out there kids. And don’t pee off a bar balcony.
