Taking on the house’s care-taker meant taking on the whole family for a disorderly capital drunk in Por Sen Chey district.

Sources say the homeless man could usually be seen cleaning streets nearby. But on Tuesday he chose to insult and attack one neighbourhood matriarch.

When her husband and children came to pull the lout off he fainted and was taken to the hospital by police.

After determining the deranged man’s spell was caused by booze and not blows, authorities left him to settle his own medical bills.

Koh Santepheap