Intruder calls 911 on himself

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http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/03/intruder_calls_police_on_homeo.html#incart_mce

Intruder calls police when Southwest Portland homeowner returns (9-1-1 tapes)

There is a reason Timothy James Chapek's hair looks so shiny in a mugshot released last night by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office: authorities say he was showering when he realized he wasn't alone in a house in Washington Park.

The house he had reportedly broken into.

When Chapek called 9-1-1 just after 7 p.m. Monday, police say he reported to dispatchers what he had done. And he shared his worry that the homeowner outside the bathroom door might have a gun and most certainly had two eager German shepherds.

Meanwhile, the homeowner also called 9-1-1, confirming the trespasser's story, according to Sgt. Pete Simpson, a Portland police spokesman.

The homeowner, age 55, and her daughter had just returned from a brief trip to the grocery when she heard a man's voice coming from the bathroom, a police report said. The woman ordered her daughter to leave while she yelled outside the bathroom door, demanding to know who was there.


The man gave his real name. The homeowner told him she was calling police. Surprisingly, the man said he was doing the same, according to police reports.

Officers from Portland Police Bureau's Central Precinct responded to home along with their own dog, and arrested Chapek, 24, of Southwest Portland without further incident.

Chapek told police he was taking a shower, nothing more. His hair was wet. Towels were in the shower stall.

He was booked into the Multnomah County jail and faces charges that include first-degree criminal trespass.

-- Kimberly A.C. Wilson

  You can hear the 911 tapes at the link, I haven't listened to them.

[Darth Wagtaros]

They are funny.

[KRonn]

I heard the tapes on the news. The guy sounded pretty nervous about the homeowner showing, thinking he/she may have a gun or something. And he was on parole too I think. Dumb ass; maybe sometime he'll learn his lesson.

[Darth Wagtaros]

He should have found somewhere else to take a shower.

[lustindarkness]

LOL

[Maximus]

Guess he wanted to make a clean break;

[Alcibiades]

He really dropped the soap there 

[Josquius]

What an idiot.

The bathroom didn't have a window?

[Eddie Teach]

Most bathrooms don't, or at least not one big enough to crawl through.