Posted on 10/05/2010 12:17:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dustin Haas was playing video games in the living room of his Southeast Portland home one night when one of his pit bulls started growling.
Haas wondered what was wrong. He found his dog, Hennessey, outside the bathroom.
"The way my dog was barking rapidly" Haas said, "I could tell he was real scared."
Haas grabbed a baseball bat out of his sports bag, and stepped into the bathroom.
He slowly pulled the shower curtain open, and found a strange man lying in his bathtub, covered in mud, sweating profusely and wearing Haas' University of Oregon Ducks football jersey.
"It scared the crap out of me," said Haas, whose two young daughters, ages 3 and 5, were asleep on the couch.
The man in the tub reached for his wallet, pulled out a $100 bill, and offered it to Haas to keep him from calling police.
"I'm screaming bloody murder, 'Who are you? Get your hands up! How'd you get my shirt on? How long have you been in my house? Why are you running from the police?' " Haas recalled.
But the intruder just kept waving his money in front of Haas, pleading "Please, Please, don't call police."
"I just said, 'No dude. No dude. No dude.'... I don't know what kind of burglar he was because he had multiple $100 bills in his wallet," Haas, 24, recalled. "I kept telling him, 'I won't call the cops, just leave! Just leave!' "
Finally, the strange man, his eyes bloodshot, stepped out of the bathtub. Holding his bat, Haas walked backwards, leading the man to the front door.
"As I got to the door, he's begging me, trying to offer me money. I had to push him because he wouldn't leave," Haas said. "I finally slammed the door on him, ran around the back and locked the back door."
Haas suspects the man entered the unlocked back door of his one-story home in the 8100 block of Southeast Woodstock Boulevard sometime between 10 and 11 p.m., and snatched his Ducks No. 2 jersey from the pile of dirty laundry on his washing machine. (Portland police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson, when asked to verify the type of Oregon football jersey, didn't hide his allegiance to the Beavers by replying: "Ducks jersey...Dirty ducks!" )
Haas immediately called the police and found them already in the neighborhood. They were using a dog to track a suspect, who was accused of breaking into his brother's ex-girlfriend's father's home the night before.
It wasn't until the following morning, Sept. 19, that police traced the suspect to a crawl-space in Stephen Walls' detached garage in the 8900 block of Southeast Lincoln St. Walls and his family had just awakened about 8 a.m. that Sunday. While his kids watched cartoons, he let his chocolate lab out, and the dog started barking at police surrounding his garage.
Radai Artega-Vasquez,27, pleaded not guilty to first-degree burglary, second-degree criminal trespass, and failure to appear on a Beaverton traffic warrant. He also faces an immigration hold.
"He's looking at some serious prison time," Simpson said, "for what amounts to running from a traffic warrant and a trespass charge."
So what happened to Haas' Ducks' jersey, with former star running back Onterrio Smith's number on it?
Haas, not a UO alum but a fan, said he's bummed he never got it back. But Artega-Vasquez is facing a more serious burglary charge because he snatched that jersey. Police are still looking for it.
Just a Mexican taking a bath Americans wont take!!
And the bathtub / shower curtains are easier to clean..... A 12 iron par no# 4 buck chip shot.
Pups in the home are best alarm systems made ......
A muddy, wasted guy in your bathtub trying to give you $100 bills? What’s not to love?
If it hurts your conscience, give the money to a charity.
And the wimpy homeowner never got his Ducks jersey back.
LOL
If you return the jersey you might get less prison time ping.
This homeowner is a racist......it’s just an illegal looking for a better life.....rolling in mud in the guy’s bathtub w/ a wallet full of $100 bills.
Get used to it, America-——this happens all the time in Mexico.”
Liberty and this nation succeeded because PROPERTY rights were the first and foremost protection. It will fail, as every nation who couldn’t/wouldn’t protect its borders, because that protection has been abandoned by ‘those in the know’ of both parties. From burning and planting our national forests and parks to squatting in people’s houses (this crappola happens along the border all the time! Ask Sue Krentz...oh, that’s right, she’s trying to stay alive because of this same invasion.)
I wish these open border politicians had this goon in their bathtubs!
Wilderness: Expansion and (Unlawful) Beneficiary Use - The nexus of immigration, organized crime, extreme enviromentalism and the UN.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2600903/posts
A MUST read, unfortunately stuck in bloggers.
BTW, why is this Oregonian article delegated to ‘chat’?
“I’ll admit I don’t think I would have shot the guy. Waving hundred dollar bills in my face is a good way to convince me that you aren’t intending violence towards my family.”
What’s really sad is his culture of ‘mordida’ tells him anyone can be bought off. Unfortunately, these days he’s right about most people and 95% of politicians.
Baseball bat?? I would have let the dog into the bathroom and shut the door!
If I had a couple of those ducks you would not be able to get me out of the bath tub.
I need get to Autzen Stadium ASAP.
Hate to see how much bigger he's going to get.
Guy is lucky he is not dead. Just saying. I would have been so scared and my baseball bat shoots lead.
If I ever suddenly stop posting, you’ll know he accidentally stepped on me.
>>You do some kind of crap like this in my home and you’ll get all kinds of shot.<<
Why? the guy wasn’t a threat to this guys safety and the fact that he had money tells me that drugs aren’t his main problem. Alcohol may be a better choice, he’s a drunk.
Put up a sign that says, “free shots”
“Portland police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson, when asked to verify the type of Oregon football jersey, didn’t hide his allegiance to the Beavers by replying: “Ducks jersey...Dirty ducks!” )
Amen...;o)
LOL!
You’re getting cynical...;o)
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