(ALMOST) NAKED MAN WITH BANJO

A Vancouver, Washington man was taken into custody on Sunday after a standoff with police in which he serenaded them while standing in front of his house nearly naked and playing the banjo. Police received a call on Sunday afternoon about a naked man walking around his neighborhood with a knife. When officers arrived on the scene, they found resident Andrew Helmsworth outside his house. Helmsworth refused to surrender. At one point during the two-hour standoff, he went inside, put on a pair of shorts and returned with a banjo, which he played for the officers before he was subdued with a non-lethal round and taken into custody.
* Tough crowd.
* Sounds like he was having a Foggy Mountain Breakdown.
* Too bad he didn’t pick his fights as well as he picked his banjo.
* “Put down the banjo, sir – but first, can you play that song from ‘Deliverance'”?
* Wow, I didn’t know Steve Martin was into drugs.
* Incidentally, that’s the standard way to handle banjo players: you subdue them with a non-lethal round.
* Interesting fashion choices here: If you have a knife you walk around naked, but for the banjo, its time to put the shorts on.
* Then the next logical step is to put on a parka and play the tuba.
* At least we know it wasn’t bath salts. Why? Because he didn’t bite the banjo.