Mail carrier found drunk, eating noodles while on the job

Kristine A. Pflughaupt, 46, was found sitting on the kitchen floor of a house on her mail route, eating leftover noodles from the refrigerator. "She was in uniform and had mail and a mail-carrying bag with her," says a cop. (Gazette Online)

Comments

[Daveed]

I'm surprised she found the refrigerator at higher than .281. That's some serious alcohol poisoning.

[Drake Timbershaft]

0.281? I'm guessing a lot of those noodles came back a short while later, possibly in the back of a squad car.

[chiarams]

Pflughaupt?

Gesundheit.

[joe]

Oh wow, it's not even her own home, but some stranger's house. I love leftover noodles, and would be sooo pissed if I came in to see a drunk-ass mail carrier eating all my food.

Also, this is kinda taking 'drinking on the job' to the limit, is it not?

[Rev JSH]

You leave Santa cookies and milk, and he only comes to your house once a year. The mailman comes around 300 times a year and delivers trillions times more presents. Are some noodles and a good buzz too much to ask? I mean, Santas nose didnt get red from NOT constantly drinking brandy and snowshoe grog.

[Phranqlin]

If she'd been smoking pot on the job, wandering into an old lady's house and chowing down on leftover noodles would be totally understandable.

[Sheila]

Exactly who dropped her off? Another postal worker? A friend of hers? Whoever it was didn't notice she was re-e-e-ally drunk? Noodle-eating drunk?

[Saxo Grammaticus]

In the mugshot, she looks as if she was still having a pretty good time. She may not remember eating the noodles, but I'll bet the hangover in a jail cell was instructive.

[LimeGreenLizard]

And why did this happen?

Newman: "Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up! It's relentless!"

[Bluntfacts]

Iowa is on the board !!!!!

[Rev JSH]

@Blunt, weve been on the board quite alot recently.

[thomas]

Got to give her credit for not being found on the floor amidst a pile of opened mail.

[American Veteran]

Is Postmaster Rick gonna Leyendecker?

[johnjohn]

This story is raw, man.

[pms]

Nice to know that while the postal service is losing billions they are employing drunk convicts to carry our mail, including credit card statements, checks, etc. Now we can all pay for her to get "help" and get her back on the job where she'll be able to retire comfortably in a few years and collect a pension.