from WAFF/48
We now have a full report from the police in the case of an Alabama teacher who is accused of tying one on at school the other day. Mae Edwards, 40, is the home economics teacher accused of being drunk at work. NICE! There might’ve also been some prescription pills mixed into the cocktail.
You know, a little pick me up for yet another school day where the kids aren’t going to listen to you when it comes to sewing or making a meal.
From WAFF via the police report:
While working as school resource officer at Tanner High School, I was informed by the principal, Ms. Kenyon, about a teacher being intoxicated. Ms. Kenyon advised me that multiple students advised her that Mrs. Mae Edwards, the home economics teacher, was acting very strange. Ms. Kenyon and myself walked down to the home ec. Building and spoke with Mrs. Edwards. While Ms. Kenyon was speaking with Mrs. Edwards, I could smell a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from her breath. While Mrs. Edwards was standing and talking, she was very unstable and also had very slurred speech. Ms. Kenyon asked Mrs. Edwards if she had taken any medication and Mrs. Edwards stated that she has. Mrs. Edwards stated that she had taken her prescribed Xanax and Klonopin at approximately 09:00 hours this morning. At that time, Rusty Bates arrived at the school. Shortly after SGT. Thrasher arrived with a portable breath tester, Mrs. Edwards refused to blow into the portable breath tester. While standing in the kitchen area of the home ec. Building next to the sink, I could smell a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage. I then opened the cabinet under the sink and and observed a grocery bag filled with beer cans. I advised Rusty Bates. Mr. Bates then took the bag of beer cans out from under the sink and sat them on the counter. Mr. Bates located three full unopened cans of Steel Reserve Beer and one empty Steel Reserve Beer in a red and black soft lunch box sitting on the counter. Inside the grocery bag were four empty Hurricane Malt Liquor cans, two empty Icehouse Beer cans and one empty Steel Reserve Beer can.
I then placed Mrs. Edwards under arrest for public intoxication and illegal possession of prohibited liquor. I then transported Mrs. Edwards to the Limestone County Jail without incident.
I wasn’t familiar with Hurricane Malt Liquor or Steel Reserve. As for Icehouse, I was shocked they’re still making that stuff. Takes me back to being 17 and drinking Icehouse tall boys. What I need to know here is how many she had while at work. The police report is a little hard to follow since we don’t get times in the narrative. Mae says she hammered those pills at 9, but how does the beer fit in. Did she get smashed during lunch?
I could definitely go for a couple more paragraphs here.