Burglar dies after 68-year-old homeowner ties him to tree with ‘multiple layers of masking tape’

washingtonpost.com ^ | 07/31/2016

[BenLurkin]

Johnson told authorities that someone knocked on his front door before midnight, Al.com reported. Johnson didn’t answer and continued to wait as he heard the person move to the back door and break the lock, Al.com reported.

Johnson told police that he confronted the person, prompting the suspected burglar to fall or jump off the back steps, Al.com reported.

Johnson subdued the man once he was on the ground and tied his hands behind his back, police told Al.com. The man was later identified as 31-year-old Cleveland Jones Gully.

Police said that after restraining Gully’s hands, Johnson placed duct tape over his mouth and tied the man to a tree using rudimentary materials — electrical wire, rope from a clothesline and masking tape.

“He began to tie him to the tree still in the standing up position,” Stringer told WALA, noting that Johnson used “multiple layers of masking tape that he had wrapped around his mouth and all the way around his head.”

With the alleged intruder tied to a tree, Johnson told police, he returned to his neighbor’s house to alert police.

[laplata]

Good one. LOL

I grew up on a ranch and we used bailing wire a lot.

[DannyTN]

You can’t fix stupid, but you can sedate it! works in medical circles.

[BenLurkin]

[B4Ranch]

Seein as how both Johnson and Gully are black and both families are hurtin, they’ll probably have a big family chicken bbq and put everythin behind them.

[Vendome]

did he tape the event?

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

How was he able to tie this man up with so many different items? Story seems weird

[wally_bert]

I’m still big on gaffer’s tape myself.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Wait for the Black Lies Matter crowd to call this a lynching.

[TomServo]

[Kriggerel]

There was an old punk song with the title:

Silence is Golden, but Duct Tape is Silver.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I hope the autopsy shows that Gully died of injuries sustained in the fall from the porch.

[BenLurkin]

No, he old the cops he didn’t intend to kill the man when he taped his airways shut.

So it couldn’t have been a lynching.

[faithhopecharity]

Gotta leave now. Taking my ak47 in to trade for duct tape.

[dangerdoc]

Accidental death is more expensive than self defense. The old man would have been better off shooting the guy or just letting him go.

[Red in Blue PA]

One less criminal. And the problem is?????

[tumblindice]

[Trillian]

“If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.”

[Daffynition]

HAHAHA!

I'm convinced he had....

[Daffynition]

Oh snap

[oldasrocks]

I caught a kid tearing up some of my equipt one time. I hog tied him with barbed wire.