Lower Saucon Township Police say a local college student was cited for public drunkenness after he allegedly disturbed residents of Riverside Drive in the township’s Steel City section by knocking on their door and asking if their home was a bed and breakfast in the middle of the night.
Police said the bizarre incident happened at 1:30 a.m. Friday.
That was when Mason Angstadt, 19, of the 3000 block of Danser Hill Road, Forks Township, allegedly emerged wet and disoriented from the Lehigh River.
Police said Angstadt told them he ended up in Steel City because he was pledging to join a local fraternity.
As part of that, he was dropped off in an unfamiliar area and told to find his way back home, police said.
Angstadt recounted that, in trying to get home, “he was in a swampy area and swam across the Lehigh River,” the news release said.
When officers encountered him, police say he was “muddy, wet and intoxicated.”
Police did not specify which local college’s fraternity Angstadt was pledging, but said that–in addition to the citation–he was provided a ride back to the school.