Burglery outside Fresno

WOW

September 07, 2008 12:00am
A BURGLAR who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed spices over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man in the face and head before he ran out the house, Fresno County sheriff's deputies said Saturday.

Lieutenant Ian Burrimond of Fresno County, California, described the crime as one of the strangest he had ever heard of.

He said a suspect was found hiding in a nearby field a few minutes later and taken into custody on suspicion of residential robbery.

Deputies, he said, had no problem linking the suspect to the crime.

"It seems the guy ran out of the house wearing only a T-shirt, boxer shorts and socks, leaving behind his wallet with his ID,'' Burrimond said.

Arrested was Antonio Vasquez, 22, of Fresno.

Burrimond said deputies were dispatched to the victims' home in the 300 block of South Thompson Avenue near Kings Canyon Road shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday regarding a burglary in progress.

The victims, both farmworkers, told deputies they were awakened by a stranger applying spices to one of the them and striking the other with a sausage.

Both the spices and the sausage, Burrimond said, reportedly were obtained from the victims' kitchen.

After the man fled, the victims discovered the home had been ransacked and that some money was taken, Burrimond said.

Burrimond said the money was recovered, but that the piece of sausage used in the attack was discarded by the suspect and eaten by a dog.

"That's right, the dog ate the weapon,'' Burrimond said.

"I tell you, this was one weird case.''

Good one!

The dog should be arrested for hiding evidence, in this case the weapon.

One of my former employees was an ambicious woodworker. While using his table saw he managed to cut off an index finger and part of another one. He called to his wife who immediately called the EMS (she was a cop and of course got a quick response). They wrapped his hand and when the EMS arrived they suggested that they take the severed finger along to the hospital for possible reattachment. After digging through a pile of saw dust the finger was not to be found. About then the dog comes back into the shop with mud on his feet and begins sniffing around the floor.

They concluded that he was looking for another finger to take out and bury.