Thursday, August 28, 2008
Local notes: Wheelchair Poop Bandit
You want weird? We got your weird right here in River City.
Starting about a year ago a half-dozen business in the Spokane Valley were targeted by this unique vandal.
Jenny's Cafe, Mc Q's Billiards and Sports Bar and Leo's Photography were among the targets of this unique vandalism, with gallons of watery fecal matter splashed or smeared on walls and doors.
"It was just a pile of sewage, right here at our front door. Some of it went under the door and made a huge mess," Nita Saddler of Mc Q's Billiards and Sports Bar.
Some of these establishments became dump sites more than once, always overnight.
"I didn't even know what to think of it, every time we'd come up in the morning we'd just pray that it wasn't there again," Jenny said.
Authorities finally figured out last Sunday who the culprit behind these attacks was when a deputy spotted a man riding a powered wheelchair on Farr Road.
John Rubint, 53, was the man riding that wheelchair. He lives several blocks away from the businesses that were getting attacked; hanging off the back of his wheelchair was a 5-gallon bucket of fecal matter.
"He expressed anger over the fact that he was now partially paralyzed and that was at least part of the reason he was doing what he was doing," Sergeant Dave Reagan with the Spokane County Sheriff's Office said.
Full story, complete with security video, here. ¶ 8:14 PM
Starting about a year ago a half-dozen business in the Spokane Valley were targeted by this unique vandal.
Jenny's Cafe, Mc Q's Billiards and Sports Bar and Leo's Photography were among the targets of this unique vandalism, with gallons of watery fecal matter splashed or smeared on walls and doors.
"It was just a pile of sewage, right here at our front door. Some of it went under the door and made a huge mess," Nita Saddler of Mc Q's Billiards and Sports Bar.
Some of these establishments became dump sites more than once, always overnight.
"I didn't even know what to think of it, every time we'd come up in the morning we'd just pray that it wasn't there again," Jenny said.
Authorities finally figured out last Sunday who the culprit behind these attacks was when a deputy spotted a man riding a powered wheelchair on Farr Road.
John Rubint, 53, was the man riding that wheelchair. He lives several blocks away from the businesses that were getting attacked; hanging off the back of his wheelchair was a 5-gallon bucket of fecal matter.
"He expressed anger over the fact that he was now partially paralyzed and that was at least part of the reason he was doing what he was doing," Sergeant Dave Reagan with the Spokane County Sheriff's Office said.
Full story, complete with security video, here. ¶ 8:14 PM
