Posted on 12/26/2011 6:54:54 AM PST by marktwain
ALOHA, Ore. – An Aloha couple woke up Christmas morning to a man hitting them with a tiki torch.
Washington County deputies are investigating the incident, which started with a home invasion, according to spokesman Bob Ray. It happened at a home on 209th Street.
According to Ray, a man believed to be on drugs broke into the back door of the home while the couple was asleep, grabbed a bamboo tiki torch and took it into the bedroom where he beat the couple with it.
The husband, who has not been identified, grabbed a handgun in self-defense and a bullet discharged during a struggle.
No one was hurt, Ray said. The bullet went into a wall.
Deputies arrived at the home and took the suspect, who has not been identified, into custody. They took the man to a hospital for a mental evaluation and planned to book him into the Washington County Jail.
The woman in the home was also taken to a hospital to treat an anxiety attack, Ray said.
How dare you sir?
Aloha. Tiki. Oregon.
Yeah, those things all go together.
The Criminal Rights Nazis will find some way to charge the homeowner and his wife for some crime....its Oregon.
A little better aim, and, one less criminal on the streets
This story went well right up to the time the home owner didn’t shoot the guy.
A man kept a loaded gun in his bedroom...in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Oregon??? Oh, he’s going to jail!
“Aloha. Tiki. Oregon.
Yeah, those things all go together.”
and then they ‘planned to book him into the Washington County Jail.’
yet I can’t get the Hawaii Five-0 theme out of my mind while I read this story.
Never mind I thought this story was about Obama....sarc.
I thought folks in Hawaii were all googly eyes about the Obamas? No?
“Aloha. Tiki. Oregon.
Yeah, those things all go together.”
As the old saying goes...
KEEP PORKLAND WEIRD.
(Aloha is a suburb of Porkland.)
Oh, Oregon.....I thought this was about the Obama vacation again..........
Those darn bullets discharging all by themselves! Especially during "a struggle." One of several struggles the bullet was involved in?
Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like waking up to an assailant beating you with a Tiki Torch in your bedroom.
It’s the total “Jimmy Buffet” experience!
Never bring a tiki torch to a gun fight.
What? He thought they should have carriage house lamps instead? Another laid-off HGTV host.
Wouldn’t happen at our house,the perp would need to get past the German Shepherds to reach our bedroom.If by some miracle he DID reach the bedroom,he’d be shot dead in the doorway.
I live in Aloha, this is less than a mile from my house. Weird things happening around here lately, car prowls, break ins, ect. Depends on what side of the tracks you are on, north of TV Hwy has the highest # of people on fraud stamps and public assistance in Washington Co. rough area, we are south of there, older ‘hood but well kept.
Wash. Co. has a high number of carry permits too.
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