Be that as it may, if he had attempted to break into my house, well, let's just say that the taxpayer wouldn't have to worry about funding any "rehab" or "mental health" clinics for him.
As it turned out, this nut was lucky.
Posted on 05/03/2005 4:02:40 AM PDT by MississippiMasterpiece
INVERNESS, Fla. - An Inverness man was arrested Saturday after breaking into his neighbors' house and threatening them, shocking himself by sticking his fingers into a lamp socket, threatening a deputy with a metal rod, running naked through his yard and chewing through a cable in a patrol car, authorities said.
Authorities arrested Shyne Harris Phelps, 39, of 2510 Jupiter St., at 1:45 a.m., on charges of kidnapping, burglary of a dwelling, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer with intent to commit a felony, resisting an officer with violence, battery and criminal mischief, an arrest report said.
Deputies were called to a home on East Dawson Drive, just behind Beall's, at 1:35 a.m. after getting a call of a burglary in progress.
On arrival, Deputy Lynn Tabb saw several people standing in the yard, pointing and yelling. Then he heard something hit the rear passenger side of the patrol car.
When Tabb turned, he saw a man holding a metal rod and wearing only a sheet wrapped around his waist, a report said. He was yelling that he was "ready to go to jail."
Tabb got out of his car and ordered the man to drop the rod. He did, but quickly picked it up again and made a threatening gesture. Tabb pulled his gun. The man dropped the rod but shouted that he was "ready to die" and took off running.
The man tried to scale a chain-link fence to get back to his home on the adjoining property.
The deputy fired a Taser at him, but it didn't connect. The man threw dirt and rocks in the deputy's face, the report said.
The suspect made it over the fence, losing his sheet in the process and sprinted, naked, into his home, the report said.
Neighbors told Tabb that the man had several guns in the house, but the suspect soon came out of the house and was arrested without further incident.
Four people told deputies that the man came into their home after the family called the Sheriff's Office to complain about noise at Phelps' house.
The man came in through the back door, they said, and grabbed them and shouted, "It is time for you to die."
As he tried to force one of the family members out of the home, one of the victims shot him with a Taser.
That just caused the intruder to demand to be shocked some more. He grabbed a lamp, unscrewed the bulb and stuck his fingers in, shocking himself and yelling.
After Phelps was arrested, deputies say he damaged the patrol car by biting through a cable cord in the back seat.
Phelps was taken to Citrus Memorial Hospital and then booked into the county jail.
He was held without bail.
There's something in the water down there...
Another unhappy Kerry supporter.
I am telling you... these democrats are becoming unhinged!
"There's something in the water down there..."
Ha! That's what I was beginning to think. I may have to quit drinking the water down here.
What was Ted Kennedy doing in Inverness? He usually hangs out in Palm Beach.
That has been stated before, here on FR, and I am now beginning to think there is something to it.
I live about three miles from this whacker, after moving here from Pinellas County in '97. I reckon it's time to move to Montana!. ;)
"....one of the victims shot him with a Taser.
That just caused the intruder to demand to be shocked some more. He grabbed a lamp, unscrewed the bulb and stuck his fingers in, shocking himself and yelling."
I'm sorry, I'm laughing. This must have been some wild & crazy scene!
Be that as it may, if he had attempted to break into my house, well, let's just say that the taxpayer wouldn't have to worry about funding any "rehab" or "mental health" clinics for him.
As it turned out, this nut was lucky.
I haven't stopped laughing...
I guess so!
Fight the Stupids
Kerry/Edwards 2004
I found it delightfully ironic...
LOL
These things don't usually crack me up, but... I'll bet no party's dull when this guy's there.
Dan
thanks for the ping.
I'm still laughing. What a nutcase.
I would like to know what his rap sheet says. A large part of our problem here in Fla. is that the Florida Supreme Court emptied out our jails about 5 years ago in response to the US Supreme Court decision on gain time.
A lot of the prisoners are still here in Fla., but some of them are headed north. Watch out.
Light socket and chewing through a cable on a car -- the guy is AC-DC.
Montana's no better. It's becoming liberalified and yuppified.
Sounds like a meth-head
So I've been told. Still ... there must be a place left in the continental U.S.of A. that an old geezer can go and have his bacon and eggs, ciggarettes and coffee, pour his used oil an his dirt road, and take his dogs out in the woods and kill some deer and rabbits to eat.
Of course, in Florida I can shoot and kill a Shyne Harris Phelps, if he breaks into my home, with no fear of prosecution from the law.
For that I guess, I should be thankful. ;)
Look, I've had a really tough week. Cut me some slack.
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