LAWRENCE, Kan.- While finishing closing duties friday night, employees at Abe and Jake's had an unexpected visitor after the doors closed.
After the bars were wiped down and all the patrons made their way across the bridge, one man somehow found his way back into the building and passed out in a corner. Needless to say Abe and Jake's employees were a bit startled. Among the alarmed was bouncer Alex Earl, who had the privilege of escorting the man back outside.
“He was so drunk I couldn’t understand a word he was saying and his shirt was covered in blood," Earl said. "I just wanted to get him out of there and back across the bridge which is where our responsibility ends.”
Devon Patterson, a doorman at Abe and Jake's also witnessed the situation with the drunken man but had a different reaction. Situations like this are nothing new for Patterson who has also worked at the Granada and the Tai House.
“People-watching after hours is really fun," Patterson said. “I once saw a guy sleeping in the bushes at sixth and New Hampshire with bottle in hand. I woke him up and he told me to leave him alone and curled up and went back to sleep. I also made a guy mop up his pee when he urinated on the Granada.”
Massachusetts Street transforms after the sun goes down and it takes a certain type of individual to work on it. In case you were considering applying for a night job but have issues with bodily fluids and/or occasional confrontation, you need not apply.