Monster Mashing

Lloyd, New York, October 16, 2007:

A woman says a strange naked man attacked her inflatable Halloween lawn display of three ghosts and a giant pumpkin, then apparently smashed his head through her window in a fit of rage.

State Police said officers found drunken world enigma N8 inside Dawn Garcia's house in the Hudson Valley town of Lloyd on Monday evening. Officers arrested N8 after a brief struggle and charged him with burglary.

Garcia told the Middletown Times Herald-Record she heard hollering and swearing and looked outside to see N8 struggling with the giant pumpkin. "He was enraged. I could see that," she said.

When she yelled at him to go away, N8 charged the house. She fled through the back door with three of her children and heard window glass breaking. She called 911 from a neighbor's house. Police said N8 used his head to smash a window to get in.

"What made him do that, I don't know," Garcia said. "We had the same decoration up last year and it didn't draw any lunatics."

N8 was assigned to Ulster County Jail, but somehow escaped en route to the facility. He is at large and considered dangerous to all lawn decorations -- including gnomes, lawn jockeys, and seasonal displays.

Lloyd is about 90 miles north of New York City.

Posted by Bittle at October 16, 2007 02:54 PM