Can you sleepwalk your way into crime? That's what happened to Adam Ball, who sleepwalked into an underaged girl's bed:
Just over a year ago, Alan Ball went to a New Year's Eve house party, drank heavily and fell asleep on a sofa.
At some point during the night, he got up, went upstairs and climbed into bed with an under-age girl, whom he kissed on the lips.
After a year in which this lorry-driving father lost his job and was able to see his five-year-old daughter only during supervised visits, a judge at Preston Crown Court this week cleared him of sexual assault after the 35-year-old claimed he was sleepwalking at the time of the incident and had no memory of the events.
Marcus Dunk of The Daily Mail has the story: Link
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I was once lying in bed when a friend of mine walked into the room, did several super dramatic Segal-style karate moves, pissed on a wall socket, then basically did a somersault onto the bed, where I barely missed being crushed as I rolled, stunt man-like, out of the way. He had absolutely no recollection of this.
Seriously though, regardless of whether this man is a liar or not, I personally know people who sleepwalk like this. One of my roommates has done many things while asleep, acting exactly as if she were awake. Once she came into our room, borrowed our milk, tried to give us a $20 for it, and ran back into our room an hour later completely baffled as to how our milk ended up in her room.
Granted, the concious mind doesn't retain memories of either activity.
I'd go to bed and wake up in a completely different part of the house.
The last time it happened, I was over at my cousin's house spending the night. Went to bed on her bed next to her, woke up in the middle of the night sitting crosslegged on the floor wedged in between her dresser and something else.
All I really see here is someone voluntarily taking a mind altering substance and then committed a crime.
You've got to be suspicious about peoples stories, but people get drunk and blackout all the time. I partake on occasion. Every once in a while I'll have too much, get in bed next to my girlfriend, and the next thing I know she's waking me up in some strange corner of the house. I've been waken up sitting tables, on the floor right next to the bed, on the cold kitchen tile with no pillow or blanket, or even in the closet. It wouldn't be hard for me to imagine having some friends over, letting them crash in the guest room and me waking up next to them instead of where I originally went to bed.
"It wouldn’t be hard for me to imagine having some friends over, letting them crash in the guest room and me waking up next to them".
sounds like another case of waking up 'in the closet'. lol .
j/k ;)
luckily, he wasnt home...
occasionally, i apparently get out of bed and yell at my sister, pass out on her bed for a while then go back to my room
on several occasions...
i could believe him just cause i know something like that could happen to me, but idk
do you find it neat that he did it and got away with it?
it would make an important distinction how she was, as it only says she was under-age and also if she wanted him to at the time and then later regretted it. should be taken into consideration also.
there's under the legal limit and then there's paedophilia, important distinction also.
Typically I couldn't wake her, and would just lead her back to her room. Stress does funny things to people.