An assistant district attorney in Athens, GA resigned Wednesday morning after a drunken street skirmish with police and a hot dog vendor the night before. In the DA’s defense, the vendor was kind of being a jag off. Per Online Athens:

William Michael Olson, 36, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of public intoxication and theft of services, Athens-Clarke police said.

Olson posted a $500 bond, was released from jail and resigned during a meeting with Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney Ken Mauldin…

A police officer responded to a 1:25 a.m. report of a fight at the corner of East Broad Street and College Avenue, police said.

A street vendor told the officer that Olson ate a hot dog and walked away without paying; he also put his hands on the vendor’s chest two times, according to police.

When the officer caught up with Olson, the prosecutor said he didn’t know anything about a hot dog, though he had ketchup and mustard on his shirt, police said.

Olson’s speech was slurred and his eyes bloodshot, and his language was laced with profanities, the officer wrote in a report.

When the officer threatened to arrest him if he refused to pay $2.50 for the hot dog, Olson pulled out his wallet and flashed his assistant district attorney badge, police said.

He “told me I needed to be careful” and asked “was I was sure that I wanted to do this,” the officer wrote in the report.

Olson was incredulous when the officer said he would arrest him.

“You are going to lock me up for a f—ng hot dog, a dollar hot dog?” the officer quoted Olson in his report.

When a police supervisor arrived, Olson admitted to the officers that he’d been drinking, but told them he couldn’t recall details of what just happened, police said…

It’s like they always say: it’s not the crime that buries you, it’s the cover up. Why do ketchup and mustard have to be so GD messy?!

In all seriousness though, if you know a more ludicrously bizarre of how someone sabotaged their own legal career we’d like to hear it. As of now Booth plans to use this instance as his measuring stick.

[Online Athens]

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