On Saturday, March 27, police arrested an Orion Motel resident on Aurora Avenue after the half-naked suspect allegedly attacked a car with baking soda, then two men with his fists, charged at a woman, and finally, confronted responding officers with a guitar, according to a police report.
The trouble began on March 26, at approximately 5:00 p.m., when two men checked in to the Orion Motel on Aurora Avenue. According to a police report, after parking their car, the men noticed a stranger “staring at them through his front window.”
The next afternoon, the two men saw that baking soda had been poured all over their car. While they were examining their car, the stranger opened his window and allegedly said, “Do we have a fucking problem?” the police report says. One of the men responded that if the stranger was the person who poured baking soda all over the car, then yes, they had a problem.
More after the jump.
According to the report, the suspect “did not like this comment.” The suspect then charged at one of the men, allegedly punching him in the mouth.
Witnesses note told police that the suspect was screaming and yelling like a “crazy man.” He was also wearing nothing but boxer shorts. The two men ran from the suspect. Undeterred, the suspect charged at a woman nearby, who also ran. When police arrived, they were alerted to the sounds of furniture being stacked against the door from inside the suspect’s room. After repeated denied demands that he open his door, police allegedly warned the suspect that if “he didn’t come out that they would be entering the room.”
According to the report, he “very loudly and very clearly said ‘bring it.’“
Police forced the door open, knocking over a bed and chair, which were both stacked against the door. The suspect “was standing in the center of the room holding a guitar in his hands like a baseball bat,” the report states. He had a “wild look on his face” and the report notes that officers “truly thought he was going to swing.”
After refusing to drop his guitar, he was “given an application of pepper spray.” Again undeterred, he ran towards the doorway where the officers stood, swinging the guitar. The guitar and his body hit the door, slamming it shut.
After forcing entry into the room, the report notes that officers found the suspect “hunched over his guitar, unable to be consoled.” Officers attempted to read him his Miranda rights, but he would not calm down to acknowledge them.
In my dream world this would be Ted Nugent.
You have a typo in your headline – wielding is misspelled.
I before e except after c.
Aw, be broke his axe.
@3 – or when used as an “a” as in neighbor.
My first guess would be meth, but baking soda is a crack component. Perhaps it’s a chemical potpourri over at the Orion Hotel.
My first guess would be meth, but baking soda is a crack component. Perhaps it’s a chemical potpourri over at the Orion Hotel.
(damn that double post.)
Maybe their car had a funny smell. Baking soda can remove funny smells.
@5: Or when the words come from Teutonic, like “weird.”
@ 10 – I was just remembering that old elementary school rhyme:
“I before e, except after c, or when used as an A as in neighbor and weigh.”
It’s no wonder English is such a pisser of a language for non-English-speakers to learn. Even the people for whom it’s their native tongue get it wrong half the time. Too damned many exceptions to the rules.
and on weekends, and holidays, and all throughout may.
and you’ll always be wrong not matter WHAT YOU SAY.
“Bring it” Awesome.
The crazy man may be, in fact, crazy. He sounds like a paranoid schizophrenic having a psychotic break. It could also be drug induced or a number of other things. It looks funny from the outside, when in actuality, the situation is pretty sad. Have some compassion people.
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“Awesome”, if only he yelled that in place if “bring it”.
This is the sort of shit that 20 years from now cops will be at a BBQ knocking back a beer, and will say, “Remember that guy with the guitar who was all bring it?”
Max, henceforth we’re calling you “Baba Louie.”
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Nah Mr. Baker, “bring it” is far better than awesome. Clearly you are boring.
@3 more E after K except before PCP.
Funny, this story was first released on Seattlecrime.com yesterday. Huh.
This whole conversation – FTW!
Thanks for a good Saturday.
For some reason I find this story incredibly sad. Probably because the poor guy was clearly not in control and now he’s in all kinds of trouble, and he’ll have to look back on this incident for the rest of his life as something he actually did.
On the other hand, at least it was just *this*. Under other circumstances, he might have killed someone.
Mental illness is a bummer.
Eight weird neighbours weighed in on a beige heifer whose conscience was neither feisty nor heinous to society.
I still want to know how you attack a car with baking soda. It’s not like it will harm the car to have baking soda sprinkled on it, even if it’s followed with some vinegar for a foamy mess.
I hope this guy gets the help he needs-and some new meds.
@15, so what if he is crazy or drug induced. This is the kind of crazy and drug induced lols. A guitar, screaming “bring it” then hunching over and bawling. Awesome. Are you such a bleeding heart pansy you can’t laugh when watching Cops?
@11 How about “foreign”
Naked Cowboy, ur doin it wrong.
@12
Actually, English is widely regarded as one of the easiest languages to learn. Helps that it doesn’t assign every noun an arbitrary gender.
@16 – Thank you, I immediately thought of Roger Fisher when I read this post.
Side note: Sources tell me that he plays open mics down in Des Moines at the bar that used to be The Dugout.
@28 No, you see this is actually funny. COPS falls more into the “forum for America’s purse-clutching fear of brown people, and vindication of racist police enforcement” order of things. I know it’s a little tricky, but there’s a subtle difference.
Well alright, the naked COPS special is pretty damn funny.