Crime & Safety
Police Called After Sleeping Man Blocks Restaurant Entrance, Police Say
Police found a man sleeping in front of the main entrance of a Church's Chicken in Norristown in such a way that people had to step over him to enter, say police.
Norristown police were dispatched to a restaurant where employees and patrons could not use the main entrance without having to step over a man who was sleeping there, say police.
Police left for a Church’s Chicken on the 200 block of West Main Street in Norristown on Sept. 21 around 9:30 a.m. to see about a person sleeping on the sidewalk there, according to a police report.
Police noticed a man, who was later identified as John Pergolese, sleeping immediately in front of the restaurant’s main entrance in such a way that the restaurant’s patrons and employees had to step over him to enter the restaurant, say police.
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Police believed that Pergolese was creating a public nuisance and so woke him, gave him a citation, and released him, according to the report.
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