‘If he can afford to drink, he can afford to pay fines’

A MAN who climbed in the window of a hostel in Cork landed in the en-suite of a bedroom but he was so hopelessly drunk he could not get out of the toilet.

The resident of the room alerted the night manager of the Glenvera Hostel on Wellington Road, who called the gardaí.

Garda Tim Walsh said yesterday that the culprit, Atis Elksnitis, aged 38, who lives in an apartment at Rockgrove Terrace, Lower Glanmire Road, Cork, was so drunk he could not speak or move.