Man threatens ridge occupants, then rams house with his pickup

Chico Enterprise-Record ^ | 12-23-02 | DANNY BERNARDINI - Staff Writer

[petuniasevan]

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Man threatens ridge occupants, then rams house with his pickup

By DANNY BERNARDINI - Staff Writer

PARADISE - After forcing entrance to a home and threatening lives, a Paradise man drove his truck into a PG&E gas meter attempting to blow up the house on Sunday.

Paradise police Sgt. Mark Tange said before entering the home the man drove his truck through the locked gate of the Kibler Street home. Once inside the yard, Tange said the suspect used two knives to threaten the lives of the six occupants, one of them his ex-wife.

When the family convinced the man to leave the house he then got into his Nissan pickup and rammed the house, severing the gas line.

During the incident the family lost contact with police when the man drove over a phone that was left in the front yard, Tange said.

When police officers arrived, they found the man in the side yard of the house on his back wielding a six-inch steak knife and making suicidal threats.

After negotiating with police, the man gave up without a struggle and was taken to Feather River Hospital for blood tests to see if the man was intoxicated.

A resident of 5943 Kibler Road in Paradise picks up the remains of her phone after a man rammed the gas meter of the house with a pickup Sunday. (Bill Husa/Enterprise-Record)

[petuniasevan]

Paradise is a bedroom community to Chico. They're about 100 miles north of Sacramento.

Paradise: "May you find it to be all its name implies."

[petuniasevan]

One for your "Hold Muh Beer" ping list!

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[Grampa Dave]

This shows how poorly built those old Nissan Pickups were/are.

A PG&E gas meter and the two inch pipes withstood the crash and disabled the Nissan.

[Sparta]

"After forcing entrance to a home and threatening lives, a Paradise man drove his truck into a PG&E gas meter attempting to blow up the house on Sunday."

I know this is sick, but when at first you don't succeed, try and try again.

[Grampa Dave]

This clown is a born loser. First he owns a loser Nissan toy pickup.

Then he crashed the pickup into a PG&E Gas meter and disabled his old rice burner.

Then he was found in the back yard on his back with a knife, threatening himself. The cops should have withdrawn and monitored him for several days!

[petuniasevan]

Novelists can't invent these idiots...

The stories would be too farfetched even for the tabloids!

[Sparta]

"This clown is a born loser. First he owns a loser Nissan toy pickup."

Everybody knows you only buy Jap cars, not the trucks. The trucks are nothing more than grown up toys given with Happy Meals at McDonalds. You want a truck, buy a Chevy.

[Grampa Dave]

That area is loaded with white trash. I don't like to go fishing on the Feather River due to this trash.

A friend had the windows on his pickup broken so the white trash could steal 3 cans of Pepsi left on the seat. My friend a Marine caught the white trash reaching through his broken window for the 3 cans of Pepsi.

[Grampa Dave]

These old rice burner toy pickups were made out used chewing gum and the wrappers the gum came from.

My oldest son during a big rainstorm was backing our old Blazer out of the highschool parking lot. Another kid backing up one of these old POS up at the same time. They ran into each other.

The other kid's car had to be tolled away. I bought a new rear red tail light reflector.

Ford pickups hold up very well!

[FLdeputy]

The trucks are nothing more than grown up toys given with Happy Meals at McDonalds.

I was about to agree with you, then I remembered a small company named Toyota and how the Tundra’s gotten four wheel drive of the year for a couple years, oh and the TRD Tacoma what a truck!! The new Chevy's are nice, but give me a Tundra anyday.

[petuniasevan]

I lived in Paradise for a year; midnight on New Year's was punctuated by numerous pistol shots and shotgun blasts. Into the air, mostly. I hope.

In 1982 and 1983 I worked at a convenience center in Paradise Pines that my Dad managed.

Oh boy. Lessee. How about that older couple from way above Inskip Inn who bought several hundred dollars' worth of booze each October to keep them company for their snowed-in selves? They were ALWAYS drunk. Never saw them sober, ever.

Or the Clampers? "Colorful" doesn't begin to describe them...

The heirs to Maxwell House coffee had a no-count son who may be in jail or dead. Take your pick. He sure took our inventory.

Oh, and what did your Marine friend DO to said trash?

[Grampa Dave]

My Marine friend said the trash would not breakinto a pickup or sedan again without some horrible scary recalls.

We had a friend move to Paradise about a year ago to get away from the crime and violence in the wine country!

She is about ready to move back!

[GovernmentShrinker]

Yeah, especially if the occupants of the house don't have the sense to blow your head off after the first try.