TRAVERSE CITY -- Talk about unwanted guests.
Staggering, drunken men invited themselves into two city residences in unrelated incidents early Saturday, police said. Both were arrested and are expected to face illegal entry charges.
"Both of them were highly intoxicated," Traverse City Police Capt. Steve Morgan said. "Neither of them were making a whole lot of sense."
One man, 29, of Interlochen, popped into a Centre Place apartment shortly after 1 a.m., startling the woman who lives there.
"She'd been in bed sleeping, and she awakes to noises she describes as bumping and thumping," Morgan said.
The woman found a shirtless man sprawled on her living room floor. She told him to leave, but he stumbled only as far as the apartment hallway before he lay down again.
He remained prone in the hallway until police arrived to arrest him.
Another man, 34, of Traverse City, decided to drop into a Walnut Street home almost two hours later. The homeowner was up early getting ready for work when he noticed the alleged invader.
"He turns around, and here's this guy standing in the kitchen," Morgan said.
The homeowner told the man to leave, but the intruder stood there in a daze, Morgan said. The homeowner then pushed the subject outside and called police.
Investigators believe the incidents are unrelated, and they don't know where the men had been drinking, Morgan said. Neither suspect had any known connection to the two residences.
The men entered through unlocked doors in both cases, Morgan said, proving a locked door can go a long way in deterring unwanted, late-night visitors.
"(Residents) really need to lock their doors at night," he said. "That will probably prevent a lot of this from happening."
Roughly six similar incidents have occurred this year alone, and drunks typically don't go through the trouble of breaking in, Morgan said.
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