Just before midnight on Wednesday, August 18th Galesburg Police were dispatched to the 1000 block of West Main Street for a shirtless male subject standing in the roadway in danger of being hit by traffic. According to police reports, the subject was attempting to “juke” traffic and was likely under the influence of drugs. When officers arrived, the subject identified as 43-year old Benjamin Cooper of Galesburg was “apparently arguing with his reflection in the window of Gray’s Sandwich Shop.” Officers told an incoherent Cooper to go home. Cooper walked a short distance down West Main and then ran out into traffic and began “juking or playing chicken with oncoming traffic” and then went into his enclosed porch. When officers asked Cooper if he was on meth, Cooper responded, “It’s the Galesburg thing to do!” When officers went to detain Cooper, he began pulling away and resisting officers – and police were forced to use a taser on him to get him into a patrol car. Cooper was charged with Public Intoxication and Resisting a Peace Officer.