A Dunedin golfer was so drunk he mistook a stranger’s home for his mother’s house and punched a man who called him on his blunder.
Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond said officers were called to a Forbury Rd address about 10.10pm on Saturday after a 27-year-old man spent the day playing golf at St Clair and drinking after a tournament.
The man walked to what he thought was his mother’s address, but instead arrived at that of a stranger’s, Snr Sgt Bond said.
The occupant challenged him and was punched by the intoxicated man, who thought there was a stranger in his mother’s house.
The man then went to another address and started banging on the door.
Police attended and arrested the man, who was in a "confused and intoxicated state", Snr Sgt Bond said. He would likely be referred to a Te Pae Oranga iwi community panel.
Snr Sgt Bond had a simple message for the community: "Don’t drink to excess to the point that you don’t know what your own mother’s house looks like."
