And Need Some Pants

By BEVIN MILAVSKY
The Express-Times
(Saturday, February 02, 2008) - A 911 hang-up call last month from the 3900 block of Cedar Drive led police to a drunken woman barreling out of her driveway while not wearing any pants.

Township police Friday filed charges accusing Kathiann Talbott, 49, of nearly plowing her pickup truck into the patrol car about 6 p.m. Jan. 22 as the officers backed out of the driveway after no one came to the front door.

Talbott attempted to drive back into her garage and shut the door, but it hit the back of the truck and sprung open, allowing officers Michael McGonigle and Philip A. Mirabile to approach her.

Talbott allegedly yelled obscenities at the officers, telling them there was no way they received a 911 hang-up call from her home. While ordering them off her property, the officers noticed an odor of alcohol on her breath, according to court documents.

After asking her numerous times to get out of the vehicle, Mirabile tried to open the truck door, and Talbott allegedly closed the window on McGonigle's arm and then tried to bite Mirabile's hand.

The two officers managed to yank Talbott from the car, which is when they realized she was not wearing any pants. She allegedly urinated on Mirabile's boots and legs and told police she was partially undressed because she had just been having sex.

Talbott told the officers she met a man on the Internet and drove to a bus stop in Allentown to pick him up. When they reached her home, she told him he was not what she expected and that he should leave. He argued with her, asked for a ride back to the bus stop and then called 911, according to court documents.

Court documents say Talbott repeatedly asked the police officers to shoot her and put her out of her misery.

A toxicology report from St. Luke's Hospital indicated she had a blood-alcohol content of 0.21 percent, according to police.

Talbott was arraigned before District Judge William Zaun on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, resisting arrest, drunken driving and harassment. She was committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $30,000 bail.