Posted on 08/09/2006 3:55:24 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
AN American tourist who ran naked through a peaceful Swiss town, vandalised a church and escaped from police clutches by jumping into a lake could have been on hallucinogenic mushrooms, a local magistrate said today.
The 34-year-old man from Massachussetts, who has since been allowed to return home, ran amok in the western town of Morges, by Lake Geneva, two weeks ago.
He started babbling incoherently in the hotel lobby, stripped and ran naked along the quayside, broke a stained glass window in the nearby protestant temple with a stool and set a precious 1898 bible alight, police in Morges said.
After being seized and handcuffed by police, he made a leap for freedom into the lake and bit two people who tried to help him while he was hanging on to a boat.
Having recovered his senses, he later appeared before investigating magistrate Gilles Riva and "coherently" explained that he had eaten 'magic mushrooms' that he had bought in the Netherlands during a trip through Europe.
"He said he had lots of regrets and said sorry at least fifty times," Mr Riva told the Swiss news agency ATS.
Mr Riva said the mushroom theory was "possible".
The tourist, who also offered $US250 ($329) for each of the people he bit, was not named.
"the mushroom theory"
Hmm I'll have to remember that if I ever need an excuse.
I thought that Bawney Fwanck was back in D.C..
This clown should still be sitting in jail.
So what's the big deal? Just one of the Kennedys acting up again.
The 34-year-old man from Massachussetts
Yeah, or he could simply have been a Kennedy.
Beat me by a minute - yer a quicker draw than me, Jas.
or a stone-sober DUer
This is all you need to know about this episode.
He's sorry his bite transmitted aids as well.
Sorry, Dasher, but now you really know about Massachusetts! We believe it must be a genetic issue.
....broke a stained glass window in the nearby protestant temple with a stool.....
Wow this must have been the protestant druids or something. Most protestant christians I know worship in churches.
....broke a stained glass window in the nearby protestant temple with a stool.....
Wow this must have been the protestant druids or something. Most protestant christians I know worship in churches.
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