WINONA, Minn. – A melee broke out inside the Toppers pizza parlor downtown with brawling drunks exchanging blows and staff trying to intervene. This was about 1:50 a.m. as the Third Street bar district was shutting down. Toppers does not serve booze, just some of the best pizza in town. When police arrived, the melee had subsided. Officers were unable to ascertain who instigated the brawl or who to arrest or ticket. As best as police could figure out, as many as 10 people were banging on each other. Everybody was handed a standard from to describe their recollection and asked to drop the forms off at the police station in a day or two. Hardly anybody ever turns in the forms from these kinds of situations. Nobody appeared seriously bruised, police said.
Toppers. At 29 East Third Street. Popular stop after-hours.