OAK RIDGE, Minn. – Deputies found man asleep in a milking parlor 6-1/2 hours after an odd disturbance in northern Winona County. A caller from a farm in the 14000 block of County Road 31 had complained that someone in a pickup was repeatedly sounding the horn. This was at 10:30 p.m. The truck was gone when deputies arrived. They later found the vehicle crashed not far away, in a cornfield on Oak Ridge. The driver fled. With a K-9 aide and data from a dropped cellphone, deputies tracked the driver to a dairy farm. He was asleep in a milking parlor, apparently hung over. This was about 4:50 a.m. near County Road 28 and County Road 31. No charges were filed immediately. Deputies were still piecing together all had happened.
