OREM — A 64-year-old Murray man parked his car in an intersection Monday evening and took an hour-long nap, according to Orem police.
Passersby thought the man might be unconscious, but he told police he simply decided to snooze while he waited for a friend, Orem Lt. Doug Edwards said.
Officers responded at about 6 p.m. and asked the man to move his car out of the intersection of 400 South and Palisade Drive so he could continue his siesta on the side of the road, but the man refused. The officers issued a parking ticket, then called a tow truck.
The man finally exited the car and sat on the curb, but while officers spoke with a nearby resident as they waited for the tow truck, the man got up and walked down Palisade Drive and into the resident's home.
Police found him sitting on the couch with his feet up on the coffee table, Edwards said. When he refused to leave — and after he asked the homeowner to turn on the television for him — the officers arrested the man for trespassing, carried him to the patrol car and booked him into the Orem holding facility.