Shrooms

Waterbury, Connecticut, July 12, 2004:

An enigmatic man ate a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms and drove around in a pair of stolen cars before arriving, confused, on a mountain in northwest Connecticut police said.

The mysterious N8 hiked to a nearby home Saturday night and asked to call 911, police said.

"I think I stole a car," N8 told a dispatcher. "I'm not sure."

Police said N8 confessed that eating an entire bag of mushrooms, "probably wasn't a good idea." He allegedly told investigators that he had no idea how many laws he broke during a three-day excursion that took him 300 miles from its origin somewhere in Delaware.

N8 has been loosely linked to the offshoot Ronatarian Party of Jersey City, New Jersey. Party officials denied any relationship with N8 and refused further comment.

A peculiar fellow with seemingly endless tales of the macabre and bizarre, N8 told a state trooper that he bought the drugs in Dover on Wednesday, according to the Republican-American of Waterbury (Conn.). The next day, he went for a drive and twice got lost in Connecticut.

He told police he remembers taking a train to LaGuardia Airport in New York, where he found a car with its keys in it. He's unsure where he went from there.

"I once again found myself lost in Connecticut," N8 reportedly told police.

After locking the keys in the stolen car, N8 allegedly stole a van from a Southbury rest stop.

In Canaan, he decided to climb Music Mountain to see what was on the other side, police said. Investigators believe the exercise cleared N8's head — if that seems at all possible.

"I want to correct my mistakes," N8 reportedly told Trooper Andre Roy. "In retrospect, this was a bad idea."

He volunteered a written confession, police said. He was officially reprimanded Monday, but was released with all charges dropped. Both stolen vehicles were recovered.

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Posted by Bittle at July 12, 2004 04:15 PM

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