Posted: Friday, July 17, 2015 12:01 am
BY GINA KINSLOW / Glasgow Daily Times
CAVE CITY — Police were called to Funtown Mountain on Thursday, after responding to two separate calls there Wednesday.
The police received a 911 call around 11 a.m. Thursday regarding a disturbance.
“When we arrived there wasn’t one,” said Police Chief Jeff Wright. “Everything seemed to be normal.”
All three calls were regarding Will Russell, owner of Funtown Mountain, who was allegedly damaging property in the attraction’s gift shop.
Russell spoke to media on Thursday as he sat in a red, white and blue lawn chair in front of the gift shop.
He told members of the media from the Glasgow Daily Times and WDRB – a television news station in Louisville – he had been detained most of the week in handcuffs.
He indicated he sustained injuries when he was arrested last weekend during The Lebowski Fest in Louisville.
Russell was charged with possession of marijuana, menacing and resisting arrest Saturday. He was arrested at Executive Strike & Spare, a bowling alley where the fest was celebrated, the Daily Times previously reported.
On Thursday, Russell said he broke 19 years of sobriety during the weekend event when he accepted a beer from someone in the parking lot of the bowling alley.
He also said police found him smoking a corn cob pipe.
When asked if he was smoking marijuana, Russell said he didn’t know what the substance was.
“It was green and it smelled a little bit like cotton candy. It was probably bluegrass, you know Kentucky bluegrass or hemp or something like that,” he said. “There’s a lot of names for it.”
Russell said he suffers from a bipolar condition and is taking medication. He also told reporters he was under the care of a psychiatrist and had been seeing the same physician for 20 years.
He said he had been hospitalized last year.
“I was given electric shock therapy. I have no short-term memory,” he said. “It’s been fine. I’ve got a lot of people to help me keep track of things.”
On Wednesday, after the second time police were summoned to Funtown Mountain, Russell was taken to a facility in Bowling Green.
Russell wrote about the incident on his personal Facebook page, and talked about it on Thursday with reporters.
“They interviewed me. They determined I was not a threat to myself or anyone else,” he said. “So, they let me go.”
Russell said he was dropped off at the White Squirrel Brewery in Bowling Green, where he was given a free hot dog and French fries, before being sent on his way.
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