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Police: Woman broke window over beer

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FORT PIERCE, Fla., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- A Florida woman angry at her boyfriend for refusing to buy more beer allegedly tried to choke him and threw a table leg through a window, authorities said.

Police in Fort Pierce, Fla., said the boyfriend told them his live-in girlfriend, Andrea Elizabeth Bathgate, 31, became angry after drinking a lot of beer Tuesday night and he refused to buy her more because she became "aggressive" while intoxicated, TCPalm.com reported Thursday.

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Investigators said the man told the woman to leave and she attempted to choke him before exiting. Bathgate then allegedly broke a leg off an outside table and "threw the hard missile through a window of the residence, causing deadly shards of glass to be forcefully launched into the occupied residence," the arrest affidavit states.

Bathgate was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery and a felony count of throwing a missile into a dwelling.

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