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Families can breathe a sigh of relief and tuck their children into bed tonight, secure in the knowledge that the mad “dog poop bomber” has been identified and brought before a judge in the respected courts of Oregon.
Robb Alexander Stout, 49 (but obviously 12 at heart), told a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge this week that he improvised an explosive device by stuffing a toolbox with dog crap and an airbag salvaged from a wrecking yard, shoved it in the back of his ex-friend’s car, waited for the fecal fireworks presentation to begin!
Stout told the court that he designed the device “so when it was open, it would just blow dog crap all over him.”
According to the police probable-cause affidavit, “It exploded with such force that it sounded like an M80 going off and the dog scat was blown out of the toolbox.”
Here’s Stout – a man with 14 felonies, incidentally – pleading his case to the judge:
When the judge asked why Stout did it, the accused said he was angry at his friend for not returning tools that he borrowed. “It was just made to hurt his ego and [make him] give me my stuff back,” Stout said. “Like a wakeup call.”
In the end, the judge gave him probation rather than jail time as Stout hadn’t been convicted of violent acts against people — and had been a model citizen since his release from jail four months ago on $2,000.
Hammer and Nigel have more in today’s edition of “Is This Anything?”
