Forest Grove Police Log excerpt, 6 June 2019

The selection from the log of local police activity for this week brings to mind the battle of wits from The Princess Bride.

May 29
Officers checked on a man who was seen passed out on the sidewalk along Pacific Avenue. On contact, the man unconvincingly advised police he had not been drinking and challenged the officers to a contest of wits in their knowledge of theoretical physics. Officers agreed, won, and then challenged the man to stand on his own two feet. He could not, and was subsequently taken to a detox facility.

I'm unsure why a police officer would think they had the theoretical physics knowledge sufficient to best all inebriated individuals. Probably the physical manifestations of impairment. But someone here, maybe more than one someone, was suffering from Dunning-Kruger Effect.