Police: Muncie man threw knife, mayonnaise at housemates

MUNCIE, Ind. – A Muncie man was arrested early Thursday after he threw a knife – albeit a butter knife, coated with mayonnaise – at his housemates.

Todd Edward Livingston, 51, was preliminarily charged with criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.

City police were called to Livingston’s house, in the 200 block of East Myrtle Street, about 1 a.m.

Two other occupants of the home – a 48-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman – reported an angry Livingston during an argument had thrown the knife in their direction, with enough force that it left a hole in a living-room wall.

An officer noted “a white substance that appeared to be butter or mayonnaise around the hole (in the wall),” according to an affidavit.

Livingston told authorities he was using the knife to apply mayonnaise to a chicken sandwich when the incident occurred.

“I was wrong and I’m not proud of it,” the Muncie man reportedly said. “All right, I did it. I missed him by a mile. It’s a butter knife.”

A breath test measured Livingston’s blood-alcohol content at 0.141. In Indiana, motorists with a BAC of 0.08 or higher are considered intoxicated.

Court records reflect the Muncie man has twice been convicted of driving while intoxicated, in 2017 and 1997.

Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.