Seems to be the week for AFL players to get smashed in public. Farmer and Dodd from Freo were also in an "incident".
How nice of the Uni student to help Cousins lie down on the ground then take a photo of him plotto. As you do
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Ben Cousins was blotto
05 December 2006 Herald-Sun
Sam Edmund
A UNIVERSITY student has told of his shock at discovering Ben Cousins blind drunk and staggering around Melbourne on his own.
Sean Coffin and his mates were celebrating exam results on Saturday night when they saw the Brownlow medallist wandering aimlessly near Crown casino.
"You could tell straight away he was really drunk," Mr Coffin said.
"We were saying, `Ben, Ben, are you all right?' and he was just mumbling."
Mr Coffin, 22, said he and his friends were walking back to their car at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre after partying at Queens Bridge Hotel.
"We just saw him and we were like, `Oh s--- that's Ben Cousins," he said.
"So we went up and laid him down and gave him some water."
Mr Coffin, a marketing and accounting student at Monash University, said after helping Cousins to rest he took photos of the Eagles star.
"He looked like he was going to pass out so we left him inside the Exhibition Building," he said. "But he must have got back up and walked outside again."
Cousins, 28, was arrested by police for drunkenness moments later.
He was given four hours to sober up in the Melbourne Custody Centre then released after 8.30am.
Former teammate Michael Gardiner yesterday confirmed he met Cousins on the night – but says he was tucked up in bed when the gun midfielder spun out of control.
The controversial ruckman, who signed with St Kilda in October, yesterday moved to distance himself from the incident.
"I wasn't out there with him. I was at home in bed. I've got my own issues to worry about over here," Gardiner told the Herald Sun.
"Of course I caught up with him. We've been good mates for 10 years and he came over for a wedding.
"I don't know where he is, I don't know where he's gone. He can look after himself."
Cousins' father Bryan, who played 67 games for Geelong in the 1970s, refused to comment on his son's latest run-in with the law.
"I don't want to talk to the press at all," he said.
"You guys do such a beautiful job I am more than happy to leave it to you guys."
Fremantle players Jeff Farmer and Steven Dodd were involved in an "incident" at a Perth nightclub at the weekend.
"The club has spoken to both players . . . and based on the information available at this time the club will be taking no action," a statement read.
West Australian police said a complaint from a patron of Club Bayview had been withdrawn.
The man who made the complaint, believed to be a player with WAFL club Subiaco, was said to have been king-hit, but did not see who struck him.
Club Bayview has been the scene of several incidents involving AFL players, most notably when West Coast's Andrew Embley was charged with assaulting a man during a brawl in 2002.
Embley's trial was abandoned before it began after police offered no evidence.
In the same month, Cousins broke his arm in a fight at the club with teammate Daniel Kerr.
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