YouTube - Drunk guy climbs on rocks during game 5 of ALCS Angels vs Yankees 10 22 09
The guy on the rocks is named…
October 23rd, 2009, 8:14 am
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Jose Cervera. No, not Cerveza. Cervera.
He’s 29, from El Cajon, according to Anaheim Police Sgt. Rick Martinez.
And, in what will undoubtedly surprise many who watched Cervera traipse around the rocks and flop into the fountain behind center field, he was not drunk.
Check out the screengrabs and video of Cervera running onto the rocks in the bottom of the sixth, with the Angels leading 4-0. Depending on your view of jinxes, he was either a curse (the Angels promptly blew the lead in the top of the 7th) or the next-best thing to the Rally Monkey, since the Angels would ultimately pull out a memorable and desperate victory.
He was detained on a citizen’s arrest — likely by stadium personnel or security — and detained in Anaheim’s jail Thursday night. He has since been released, and faces charges of trespassing, a misdemeanor.
He will not face charges on public drunkenness, though, a clue that officers didn’t find him to be “unable to care for himself or a danger to others,” Martinez said.
