A 25-year-old bar patron began his Thanksgiving Day at about 1 a.m. apparently intoxicated, with his head smashed through a small glass window, according to police.
Darien police gave this account of the incident, which didn’t result in an arrest:
The man, who lives in Norwalk, didn’t appear to have suffered any major injuries, and he said he didn’t want to go to a hospital. But due to possible unseen injuries and his state of intoxication, Darien EMS-Post 53 emergency medical technicians overruled him and took him to Norwalk Hospital anyway.
At about 1 a.m., police were called to Chez Ernie’s bar at 25 Tokeneke Road on a report of a possible breach of peace. When they arrived, police were told a bouncer had asked the man to leave.
The man walked out the back door, but soon started to come back, and the bar owner went toward him to try to persuade him not to return. Before the bar owner met him, the man began bouncing his head on the back door, then smashed his head through a small glass window on it.
Police spoke with the man, whose speech was slurred and whose breath smelled of alcohol. The man initially said someone had pushed his head through the window, but two witnesses told police the man had done that entirely on his own. The man later recanted his first explanation and said he didn’t know what he was thinking when he said it.
The bar owner said he did not want to press charges against the man, but he might contact him later to try to get compensation for the damage, perhaps in a civil court.