It wasn’t without incident, but St. Patrick’s Day unfolded as a relatively tame event this weekend in State College, borough police said Sunday.
The holiday ‘was pretty peaceful, pretty calm’ on Saturday, police Lt. Bradley Smail said. He said police observed a variety of large gatherings in town, but nothing that appeared to veer seriously out of control.
Police-call volumes were substantially lighter than those seen on the unofficial State Patty’s Day drinking holiday, held last month.
Still, borough authorities did field a few reports of mischief and violence over the weekend. Among them:
- A man was punched in the face by another man about 3:40 a.m. Sunday at 456 E. Beaver Ave., police said. The injured man had swelling around his eyes and nose and was taken to Mount Nittany Medical Center, according to a police report. Police said the assailant was not identified.
- In the Greentree neighborhood, police said, a man hit another man with a whiskey bottle. That was reported at 1:13 a.m. Sunday at 912 Crabapple Drive.
- Two men were spotted running naked about 12:15 a.m. Sunday on Clay Lane near the 600 block of West College Avenue, according to a police report. Police said the men were identified and will be charged with open lewdness.
- A man assaulted a patron and a bartender about 10:30 p.m. Saturday at the Atherton Hotel, 125 S. Atherton St., police said. He will be charged with disorderly conduct and harassment, according to a police report.
- A pregnant woman fell to the ground at 2:46 p.m. Friday after she was struck by a water balloon, according to a police report. It happened outside Nicholas Tower, 301 S. Pugh St., where someone on a balcony appears to have dropped the balloon, police said. The woman had been walking on the street level when the balloon hit her head, according to the report. She was taken to the Mount Nittany Medical Center emergency department for evaluation. An investigation is ongoing.
