Police arrested Patrick Lawrence, a 22-year-old white male,
resident of Dacula, GA, in a pumpkin patch at 11:38 p.m.
Friday. Lawrence will be charged with lewd and lascivious
behavior, public indecency, and public intoxication at the
Gwinnett County courthouse on Monday.The suspect allegedly
stated that as he was passing a pumpkin patch, he decided to
stop.”You know, a pumpkin is soft and squishy inside, and there
was no one around here for miles. At least I thought there
wasn’t,” he stated in a phone interview from the jail.Lawrence
went on to state that he pulled over to the side of the road,
picked out a pumpkin that he felt was appropriate to his purposes,
cut a hole in it, and proceeded to satisfy his alleged “need.”
I guess I was just really into it, you know?” he commented with
evident embarrassment.

In the process, Lawrence apparently failed to notice the Gwinnett
County police car approaching and was unaware of his audience
until officer Brenda Taylor approached him.”It was an unusual
situation, that’s for sure, said Officer Taylor. “I walked up to
(Lawrence) and he’s . . . just working away at this pumpkin.”Taylor
went on to describe what happened when she approached Lawrence.
“I just went up and said, ‘Excuse me sir, but do you realize that
you’re screwing a pumpkin?He got real surprised, as you’d expect,
and then looked me straight in the face and said “A pumpkin?
Damn…is it midnight already?”