Sorry, cats (and catlovers). No offense intended.
Posted on 11/08/2002 2:08:52 PM PST by Willie Green
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A Cedar Crest man mutilated and burned his beloved house cats and sprayed insecticide on a female friend because he thought they were shapeshifters.
Christopher Campbell, 42 told authorities that he believed his cats were shape shifters, mythical creatures who can change form, and that they were trying to kill him.
Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies arrested Campbell Wednesday, and say they've visited his house many times in the last few months, often for drug-related incidents.
"His behavior's been more repetitive, increasingly more violent and more outlandish," said Sgt. John McCauley.
Deputies found the cats in the garage, mutilated and burned, laid side by side in tire rims.
While deputies checked out the house, neighbors reported seeing a naked man running down the road. Campbell later slipped back into his house; sheriff's deputies found him naked in the closet of the back bedroom.
"He obviously needs some help for his mental issues, his drug problems, and he of course needs to answer for the crimes he committed," said McCauley.
Sheriff's deputies were called to the house a week earlier when a semi-nude woman ran screaming and crying to a neighbor's home.
Neighbor Bob Sturgeon says he and his wife put a bathrobe on the 25-year-old Shawntell Waites.
She eventually wanted a weapon to protect herself and demanded a knife from another neighbor.
"So she went in her shed and got a bow saw and some weed cutters, and I took them away from her," said Sturgeon.
Campbell told deputies he and Waites had been smoking crack cocaine earlier in the day.
He told deputies he became concerned when a shape shifter took over Waites' body, so he locked her in his laundry room and smashed the window with a fire poker "to keep an eye on her."
Campbell said he sprayed Waites with insecticide in an attempt to get her to jump out the window and leave.
He's being held with $100,000 bond at the Bernalillo County Detention center.
Conditions for his release also include taking all prescription medications and keeping appointments with doctors and psychologists. Deputies say his parents came from their home in Florida about three days ago to check on their son.
They told officers they went to Campbell's his home to find butter smeared on the doorknobs and jars of honey and jam dumped on the front and back porches. He had placed barbed wire and cacti around the house as a security measure.
When Campbell's parent's couldn't find him and saw his cats were dead, they feared he may have committed suicide. They told deputies they don't believe their son should be in jail, but in drug and mental health treatment.
They say New Mexico has limited treatment, and they would like for him to get help closer to their home in Florida.
Other than the poor little kitties being killed, this story is hilarious.
No, it'll be invaded by knee-jerk anti-libertarians who think that "drugs" and "libertarians" are synonymous.
Oops, it already has been.
Heck, it'd be unusual to find a cat that *wasn't* plotting against us.
The cats should have had better sense. Besides, who's to say they weren't, in fact, shapeshifters? Look at rats. They prove that shapeshifting is possible. So do RINOs.
Don't trust those purs.
Sorry, cats (and catlovers). No offense intended.
Psychotics are not friendly "victims" in need of liberal group-hugs....they need to be taken off the streets so that sane, law-abiding people (AND cats) can live a peaceful life."
Can you say, "Thank YOU Jimmy Carter!". . . . I thought you could.
Genious is an understatement. The gifted often see things that others cannot. I saw that movie A Brilliant Mind. That guy was genius and saw all kind of stuff others didn't. I have no doubt that there is something to this shapeshifting business.
It is the result of global warming causing waves of reality to shift much as the heat in the desert bends light.
This modern day Einstien needs to be in a position of power where he can do something about the cataclymeric results of environmental irresponsibility by BIG OIL.We should lay the blame where it belongs, at the feet of G.W. Bush (friend of BIG OIL) who would not sign the Kyoto Treaty.
When I see G. W. Bush, it seems like those cats are getting torched all over again.
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