Donald Kenney
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Posted on 09/24/2008 4:04:57 PM PDT by csvset
The incident at a Columbia River nudist beach started with a simple navigation error by a southeast Portland man on a rafting trip with his children and two Chihuahuas.
Police say 45-year-old Josh Meiller thought he was several hundred feet from the clothing-optional area of Sand Island at Rooster Rock State Park when he brought his inflatable raft ashore Thursday afternoon.
A startled man sunbathing in the buff let him know otherwise, allegedly attacking the man and his dogs with a collapsible police baton, said Lt. Gregg Hastings, an Oregon State Police spokesman.
"At least three of the four children with the victim were his children," Hastings said, adding that it's understandable why the boundaries on the beach weren't clear since "it's a section of the island that's not accessible during parts of the year, when the river runs high."
The nude sunbather was identified as Donald Joseph Kenney, 74, of Vancouver. Oregon State Police arrested him Friday on charges of menacing and assault.
Shortly after 1 p.m. Thursday, Oregon State Police troopers and Multnomah County sheriff's deputies responded to a call at Rooster Rock State Park near Troutdale "involving a nude sunbather."
At the park, they found Meiller, who said he was on his raft with three girls and one boy, ages 7 through 10, when they landed at Sand Island. He told investigators that he thought he was far from the nudist area at the park, Hastings said.
The shaken and bruised Meiller told police that he realized his mistake when his two dogs jumped out and ran up the beach toward a nude sunbather, later identified as Kenney, about 100 yards away. The man told police that he saw Kenney hitting the dogs with what appeared to be a stick.
Kenney then allegedly walked up to the man and the children, holding up a can of mace. Meiller backed up and tripped, and Kenney attacked with the baton, striking him in the head, torso and right leg, police said.
Hastings said alcohol wasn't a factor, but it was unclear why Kenney allegedly attacked Meiller. "His initial response was because of the dogs and the alarm they created," he said, "but after that it was just general aggressive behavior."
After the assault, Kenney walked away, police said. Meiller, who initially asked police not to release his name, left the beach in his raft, Hastings said.
Investigators found Kenney after the victim gave them a description of his attacker and the license plate number for a vehicle in which he later saw his attacker, Hastings said.
Meiller suffered bruises and abrasions, police said. "He has also had an ongoing headache from the blow he took to the head," Hastings said.
The next day, Kenney's vehicle was spotted parked at the park. Officers, accompanied by a park ranger, found Kenney in the nudist area and arrested him, Hastings said.
If convicted, Kenney faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Best tan in Portland.
Hey old man, step away from the Viagra.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
They’ve come to snuff the rooster.
Best laugh I’ve had in quite awhile.
There is a definite correlation between the compulsion to be naked outside and ugly.
That happens with age.
Makes you wonder if it was a hold up or a stick up.
It is no wonder that the Chihuhuas went nuts. Oops, didn’t actually mean it that way, but what the heck.
Any 74 year old nude dude would set our dogs off.
My eyes, my eyes!
The poor kids. Now they know what they have to look forward to in about 70 years.
A dried arrangement?
Did you see the story about the BedBugs up at OHSU?
They were brought in in a workers backpack to an office in the admitting dept.
TV news showed sheet rock that had to be removed due to the bedbugs in that office.
However the hosp claims there was only 10 bugs.
I saw an article here at FR the other day about the growing problem here in the States with traveling bed bugs from abroad.
That and super Lice that have mutated so that the killer shampoos have little or no effect.
Ya know all the enviro whacks that want natural solutions to enviromental issues should stop bombing Universities and Prof. Homes and find a cure for body lice,bed bugs and scabbies.
Bacon, bacon, bacon!!!! looks all shrively like bacon, bacon bacon bacon!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Umm, that wasn't a stick, that was his...
Josh should’ve beat off his attacker.
With a landing party consisting of four chilrun' and two Chihuahuas, the odds were agin' 'em.
“Don’t look Ethyl! But it was too late”
“allegedly attacking the man and his dogs with a collapsible police baton”
Is that what they are calling IT these days?
You shameless hussy! :)
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