SEATTLE — Here’s one for Alternative Policing 101. Or as Seattle police termed it on their website: To Protect and Serve … Noodles.
Staff at a restaurant in the city’s Greenwood neighborhood called for help Sunday when a male employee started screaming and swinging a tea pot, stumbled into a table and collapsed on the floor.
Arriving officers asked the man if he needed medical help. He responded by swinging and kicking at them. Police say as fire department medics arrived, the man lunged at officers and tried to bite them.
Police managed to get the man into handcuffs, which allowed medics to discover he was suffering from a severe case of low blood sugar. Officers then uncuffed the man, medics began treating him with an IV and police report that “a sudden sense of calm seemed to wash over him.”
Restaurant staffers thanked police and the man was offered a restorative bowl of noodles.
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