Off The Beat: Man jailed after ‘wet willy’ caper in St. Lucie County

Will Greenlee | Treasure Coast Newspapers

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A 47-year-old man was jailed after allegations he gave his girlfriend a “wet willy,” an affidavit states.

Joseph Sireci, of the 1000 block of Trinidad Avenue in Fort Pierce, was arrested on a battery charge after the Aug. 15 incidents.

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A St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputy went to Sireci’s listed address. His girlfriend said Sireci was drunk on the living room floor when she got home from work.

The girlfriend said Sireci accompanied her and her daughter to another home where Sireci “continued to drink and be belligerent,” an affidavit states.

On the way home, she said, Sireci started grabbing her hand and pulling her arm.

Further, she said Sireci “continued by giving her a ‘wet willy’ sticking his finger in her ear,” an affidavit states.

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According to Urban Dictionary, a wet willy is “a prank in which the prankster licks/spits on his finger, sticks it in the victim’s ear hole and then turns it round and round.”

The daughter of Sireci’s girlfriend confirmed her mother’s account.

Sireci declined to give a written statement, but said he wasn’t intoxicated.

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