This man took the “by no means say die” spirit a little bit too far.
A suspected vandal left a stinking pile of fish at an Oregon house featured the 1985 film “The Goonies” — and was caught days later when the Coast Guard discovered him preventing for his life after being thrown from a wave-battered stolen yacht, officers mentioned.
Jericho Wolf Labonte — who allegedly tampered with safety cameras on the well-known house throughout his weird Feb. 1 prank — virtually died on Feb. 3 when enormous swells on the mouth of Columbia River capsized the heisted pleasure boat he had inexplicably taken for a joyride.
The enormous whitecaps despatched the 35-year-old tumbling into the ocean, the place he was compelled to desperately swim, earlier than Coast Guard rescuers went into the the 47-degree water and pulled him to security.
He was then taken to a hospital for therapy of gentle hypothermia — the place authorities quickly realized that he regarded identical to a person captured on video a couple of days earlier inflicting mayhem on the Victorian-style film house within the city of Astoria, Oregon.
Cops acknowledged Labonte as the person who had coated safety cameras on the famed “Goonies” house — which not too long ago offered for $1.65 million — and had left fish on the porch, in keeping with officers.
Labonte was arrested Friday evening at a homeless shelter within the Oregon city of Seaside, the place he had been staying “below an alias.”
He was charged with theft, legal mischief, endangering one other individual and unauthorized use of a automobile, police mentioned.
The suspect was additionally needed by Canadian authorities in connection with different unspecified crimes.
The spot the place Labonte misplaced management of the stolen 35-foot yacht is a notoriously tough part of the river often known as “the graveyard of the Pacific,” footage confirmed.
He was rescued by Petty Officer 1st Class Branch Walton, a rookie rescue swimmer from Greenville, South Carolina, who was dispatched by close by crews conducting a coaching train, officers mentioned.
“It’s been a very odd 48 hours,” Astoria Police Chief Stacy Kelly mentioned Friday.
“The Goonies,” a Steven Spielberg movie starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, and Corey Feldman that chronicles younger misfits on a fantastical treasure hunt in Seaside, has achieved cult traditional standing over time.
The residence prominently featured within the coming-of-age image was purchased in December by a “die-hard” fan who needed to protect and defend the oft-visited web site, according to The Oregonian.
“Of course, nobody will get in except they do the truffle shuffle,” the client reportedly wrote in his written assertion, a reference to the humiliating stomach blubber dance carried out by Jeff Cohen’s “Chunk” within the movie.
With AP wires
