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Diamond Dave's Home Invasion (ex van halen singer holds intruder at gunpoint)
e! online/yahoo ^ | may 1 2003 | By Josh Grossberg

Posted on 05/01/2003 5:05:55 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod

Apparently, David Lee Roth is hot for hold ups.

The former Van Halen frontman might as well have jumped out of his skin after a man on the run from police ended up scaling the fence to his Pasadena residence early Saturday morning and tried to take refuge in Roth's yard.

The rocker noticed the intruder hiding outside his home at about 2 a.m. Roth then grabbed his shotgun and kept the guy pinned down from his second floor balcony until officers arrived on scene to arrest him.

"Dave cornered the guy with his shotgun," Roth's rep, Lathum Nelson, told the Associated Press on Wednesday. "When the cops got there he put the gun away."

Running with the devil indeed.

Pasadena police department spokeswoman Janet Pope identified the intruder as 47-year-old Charles Cooley.

Apparently, police were responding to a disturbing-the-peace call after several of Roth's neighbors spotted Cooley throwing rocks at the window of his own residence. When they failed to find him, officers received another call from Roth who reported an intruder on his property.

"Officers responded…when they heard two men speaking loudly to each other," Pope told E! Online. "Once the officers gained entry to the residence, officers went in and found Cooley laying on the front lawn of Mr. Roth's yard."

However, concerning Roth's vigilante stance Pope said that "there's nothing in the police report of mention of any weapons either with the victims or the suspect in the case."

Cooley was subsequently taken into custody for possession of methamphetamines.

The unwanted houseguest is the latest bizarro tale to come out of Dave's world.

Last year, the court jester of rock and roll teamed up with his Van Halen replacement, Sammy Hagar, for a raucous coheadlining summer tour (unofficially dubbed "Sam & Dave" or "Sans Halen" tour). But after witnessing Roth's onstage antics, Hagar refused to dance the night away ever again with the entertainer.

Roth also taped a weird promo video titled David Lee Roth (news)'s No Holds Bar-B-Que which featured him dressed up like a sailor and doing karate moves during a luau that featured pirates, dwarves and real martial artists. The video was supposedly Roth's bid to get TV execs to award him his own Osbourne-esque reality show.

Finally, in December Roth sued his former Van Halen bandmates, accusing them of intentionally withholding royalty payments--putting to rest any notion that the two parties had reconciled and planned to launch that much-rumored reunion tour.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; davidleeroth; vanhalen

1 posted on 05/01/2003 5:05:55 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod
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To: KneelBeforeZod

2 posted on 05/01/2003 5:09:40 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (California wine beats French wine in blind taste tests. Boycott French wine.)
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To: KneelBeforeZod
Roth was smart to hide the gun away before the cops got there. Gun laws as they are, the cops probably would have booked him for gun charge instead of the perp. I'm sure the guy wasn't lieing on the lawn because he wanted to take a nap.
3 posted on 05/01/2003 5:10:16 PM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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To: KneelBeforeZod
Sounds like Dave gave the guy "Fair Warning" ... I just hope he doesn't "Hear About It Later."
4 posted on 05/01/2003 5:11:12 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: KellyAdmirer
Assuming he did, in fact, hold the intruder at gun point.

Look, I'm a real big Roth-era Van Halen fan, and I liked his immediate post-Van Halen stuff, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't take any of his boasts with a grain of salt.
5 posted on 05/01/2003 5:15:26 PM PDT by wimpycat ('Nemo me impune lacessit')
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To: spodefly
Well, he certainly ain't talkin' 'bout love...
6 posted on 05/01/2003 5:30:23 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (If Love Is Blind, Why Is Lingerie So Popular?)
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To: KneelBeforeZod
I'm suprized the old burned out rocker even heard him...
7 posted on 05/01/2003 5:35:14 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: sit-rep
suprized = surprised... HELLO!
8 posted on 05/01/2003 5:36:22 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: *bang_list
Bang
9 posted on 05/01/2003 5:46:00 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (NEO-COMmunistS should be identified as such.)
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To: spodefly
It looks like that "Atomic Punk" was almost "D.O.A."
10 posted on 05/01/2003 5:51:49 PM PDT by ScoochDude
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To: ScoochDude
I knew a guy in college who was diehard gun rights supporter and a huge Van Halen fan. This story is his dream come true.
11 posted on 05/01/2003 6:38:20 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: KneelBeforeZod
Humma la beeba la seeba la booba la
Humma la beeba la seeba la bop

I just stopped somebody.
Somebody gonna rob me.
Somebody, somebody gonna rob me.

I'm just a nobody.
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely
What a story
To bring the attention to me.

So ain't you just glad
You know baby it’s so boring all of the time
No one to call me, no one no one to call me
Bozdee bozdee bop didy bop

12 posted on 05/01/2003 6:53:57 PM PDT by scott7278 (Four more years! Four more years!)
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To: scott7278
Have you seen Junior's grades???
13 posted on 05/02/2003 6:34:34 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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